The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-25
ROBBERY OF 4 BANK.
More Than Twenty-two Thousand Dollars
 Were Taken From the Vaults.

Were Taken From the Vaults.
 New York, April 24.-The directors of the First National bank of Plainfeld, N. J., to-day made public the theft of $22,765, which was stolen from the vault on Monday. The cashier, Frank s. Runyon, missed the money when he went to close the bank for the day. It was in two packages; one con- tained $20,oOO in new bills ranging in value from one to one thousand dol lars. The other contained $2,765 in mu- tilated bills.
 All of the bank employees were i'm mediately questioned, and it was found that at noon on Monday only two clerks had been at their posts. At the front of the bank receiving deposits was David N. Runyon. His window is at the short end of an L-shaped counter, and faces the main street. The long end of the L fronts on a narrow passage leading to the directors room in the rear of the bank. The counter is top ped with fixtures of scratched glass. Adelbert Vail, a clerk, was at one of the wickets.
 A stranger came in with big sheet of paper, on which was written a list of notes. The stranger engaged Vail in conversation about the notes, and with the sheet of paper shut off his view of the outside passage. Whether the bank thief then slipped past the stranger into the directors room and then proceeded to the vault or en- tered by way of a rear hallway door, which was open, is not known No one was seen or heard to enter, but at night the money was found to be gone.
 It is now remembered that several strangers have for two weeks past asked many questions of the bank clerks, apparently familiarizing them selves with the situation in the bank, and one of them drove up to the bank Monday at noon and called out Fred erick Haines, clerk, about twenty minutes before the robbery is supposed to have occurred.
 At meeting of the directors yes terday the following resolution was passed:
 Whereas, It has come to the knowl- edge of the board of directors of this bank that on April p, 1895, between the hours of 12 o'clock and o'clock noon, the vault was entered and $22,765 was taken;
 Therefore, be 1t resolved, That the cash taken be charged off for the pres- ent time from the account of profit and loss.
 Charles Potter, President.
 J. Wesley Johnson, Director.
 F. s. Runyon, Cashier.
 William M. Stillman, Director.
 The bank announces that it will not be affected by the loss and that its con templated building Improvements will be proceeded with.
 Bank Examiner Stone conferred with the board of directors yesterday, and advised publication of the loss and mo- tif1cation to the police, and New York detectives were put in charge of the matter,
 The fact of the robbery did not be- come generally known in Plainfield till noon to-day. When the depositors heard
  made inquiries as to- the safety of their money President Potter and Cashier Runyon assured every one who called that the bank was perfectly safe and that it would make good all its obliga- tions.
 It is not known whether the police and detectives have a good description of the thieves. Messrs, Runyon and ail have not yet given out to the public any information on this point
 The bank is at the corner of Front street and Park, in the business center of the city; the offices are on the first floor and there are law offices and other business offices on the upper floors. The First National bank has been in existence for many years and it's board l of directors is composed of some of the | most prominent men in Plainheld. A arge number of the leading business men of the town are among it's deposit DTS. The capital is $200,000, and there | s surplus of $50, 900.