The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-06
from Chicago and Chief Cone of Wichita
were notified and the work of detection be-
at opca
WHO GOT THE MONEY!

were notified and the work of detection be-
gan at once.
WHO GOT THE MONEY!
The detectives went to work on the case.
What they have found it is impossible TO
say. Repeated attempts to draw out Chief
Cone last night failed utterly. He would
say nothing about the case.
But there are facts that suggest them
selves to almost every mind. The tIme-lock
ran down at a. m. Monday. The teller
opened the safe at s a. N. There were
| three hours intervening. Ii the money
was taken that day. it was taken in those
three hours. 1t could not have been taken
Saturday or Sunday night or before 3 a.
| m. Monday, simply because no human be
ing on earth can open limerick before
1t opens itself. The paying teller declares
he locked the time-lock, and there is no
| reason to doubt him. The conclusion
must be that somebody knowing the COM
bination of that safe and acquainted with
the fact that the time-lock Fan down at D
a. m, came into the bank between the
hours of a. m. and a. N. Monday morn
ing and took the money.
NOT A BUNGLING JOB.
LII was not the work of bungler, or a
regular safe breaker. A safe-breaker
would not leave s4S,0 900 behind him. He
would have taken everything, The INFER
euce is that the man VINO took the money
is still in FL Dorado. That he took only
part OF the money in the evident hope that
the theft would not be detected at once
would seem sufficient proof for this. Ii Is
SAID the books of the bank have been thor
oughly examined and not a discrepancy
discovered. lie was an out and out robbery
and the robber must have been acquainted
with the surroundings.
IMMENSE REWARD OFFERED.
The Exchange National Bank
OF I'll Dorado Is the only national bank In
Butter county. 1t has capital stock OF
Sl00,000. IL is known far and near as one
of the very strongest financial institutions,
not only in Kansas, but In the entire west.
Its stockholders have made good the
amount OF the theft. They have also
offered s., 900 reward-$2, 900 tor the return
OF the mouey and s., 00y for the arrest aud
conviction of the thief or thieves.
Tnis is the circular given out yesterday:
To the Public Generally and Especially to the
Patrons of This Bank.
On the morning of Monday, March
49, h, 1894, the officers of this bank discov-
cred it had been robbed of fifteen thousand
and seven hundred dollars.
This is supposed TO have occurred be
tween g p. III. Saturday. March 18th, and
g. M, Monday, March 10 h. 1894.
Extra precautions have been taken to
Make it impossible for this TO occur again.
No loss can result TO any deDOsitor for
the amount stolen has been made good by
the stock holders. Public notice was not
gwen at once because il was believed the
money aud the guilty parties could best be
discovered by keeping the matter quiet Tor
while. We are actively pressing
the Investigation. but As we have not
positively ascertained the guilty party we
1eem it best to offer a reward OF 81, 900,
.f..E. har-a k,,rl foil
Two thousani dollars for the discovery
and return of the money or a proportionate
amount for the return of any part thereof,
and 81 900 tor the arrest and CONVICTION OF
the guilty party or parties.
A L. REDDEN, Pres't.
GEO. w. brown, Vice Pres't
j. ID. REARICK, Asst Cashier.
L. j. L KING.
j. BENNINGHOFF.
GEO T.. HAvER
H. w. HINKLE.
w. 4. BROWN.
c. w. BROWN.
FILLMORE MITCHELL
5. h. BLACK.
Z. l.. REDEEM, Directors.
Mr. GARDINER STILL AWAY.
Mr. II. II. Gardiner, the cashier. is the
best known official of the bank. He ranks
high as a fiuancer and writer on none
tary and economic questions throughout
the country.
His health has been bad, and some time
ago he went to the Rockies, but gained no
relief. His physician ordered him to try
the Atlantic coast and he is still there. He
did not know of the robbery at the time of
the discovery, but has been notified since.
WICHITA BANKS NOTIFIED.
Last evening all the Wichita banks re-
ceived the circular of the Exchange
National bank of Ell Dorado, and those
officials who were seen by reporter eX-
pressed surprise that the robbery should
have been so successfully kept secret for
SO long time.