Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-08-10
ANOTHER GRAND JURY.
Failure of the South Side Savings
Bank to Ee Investigated.

Milwaukee, Aug. 3.-1he following
notice was issued today.
/ 1T is hereby ordered and decided
that grand jury composed of seven
teen jurors be drawn from among the
persons named in the grand jury list
! last filed in the office of the clerk of
the court, and summoned for the Sep
TENDER term Of said court, for the
year 1893, TO appear before said court
in the municipal court room in the city
o. Milwaukee, in said county, on the
-irst Monday Of the September term
l.. ID. 1893, tO-wit, of the fourth day
of September, A. d. 1893, at IL O'Clock
in the forenoon of that day.
1t IS hereby further ordered and di-
rected that every juror SO drawn shall
be summoned to appear as a grand
juror at least four days before said
nrst Monday Of September, A. D. 1898.
Let this order be filed in the office
Of the clerk of this court and entered
on its minutes By the court,
Emil Wallber, Municipal Judge
milwaukee,, Aug. 3, 1898"
And so another jury has been called.
When grand jury is called it is
not customary TO state its purpose un-
Ill the time when it is officially con
yened, which in this instance, as the
above order shows. will be on Sept 4.
In this case, however, there can be
no doubt but what it is Judge Wall
ber's intention to investigate the fail
ure OF die South Side Savings bank.
Many reports are rife with regard to
the acts OF Cashier Koetting For eX-
ample, it is said that he received a
deposit OF S1.1OO q few minutes before
closing hour the day before the bank
suspended, or in other words that he
received this deposit when he must
have known that the bank was III
solvent. Consequently it is claimed
that he might be indicted on precisely
the same charge Us were the officers
of the PlHnkinton bank
1t is further claimed that he showed
fayoritism insofar that shortly before
he refused deposit of $1,000 from
another person who was a friend of
his
1t will be remembered that Cashier
kpetting together with the banks
ledger disappeared the night before the
same banks failure was announced,
OF in other words, the night of the
Same day that he received this deposit.
Furthermore, last Monday night the
president Of the bank, G.. G. Trumpff,
also disappeared, and at this writing
nothing definite is known of the where
abouts Of either the missing president
or the cashier.
Up to present time President
Triumph has repeatedly claimed that
lie hid nothing whatever to do with
tie management of the bank which he
state was left wholly in Noetting's
iIaudS Whether or not this be the
fact il in no wise relieves the presi-
Gent Of his full share Of the legal re
SponSibility, and his disappearance only
goes to confirm all former suspicion
that the affairs of the bank were man
aged in most shiftless manner if not
worse.
A further cause for suspicion lies in
the fact that the entire capital of the
Dank, SIOt,UO0, was owned IN equal
shares by the president and cashier,
both of whom are now missing.
Cleveland Plain Dealer: The brayest
man on earth has been found in In
diana. He organized all the church
singers in town into one choir.
Brooklyn Standard Union: The ma
wab of Rampoor is with us. The ma
hoh of DaO1n0Or has inst loft 11S His
other name was Veragua.