The evening times., 1896-10-16
BETRAYED BY A WOMAN
Annapolis Bank Defaulter
Captured in Pennsylvania.
HE HAD MARRIED ANOTHER
whenShe Learned II ThisShe Aroused
the Bank Officials Suspicious.
Alter His Flight she Joined Hin and
Travelled with Him-His Young
Wife Heartbroken.

Baltimore, Nd, Oct. l6.-Richard H.
Green, the deiaulting oookkeeper OF the
! Farmers National Bank, of nnapolis, who
is cha rged with emoezzliDg al least $50 :
600 OF the funds of that institution, ha been
run TO earth. lie was captured at a farul-
house in huntingdon county. Pa, a bout wo
| miles and half from Grafton. Pa
Thus begins one of the last chapters
in the life of a young man who plieTed
! from his employers for nearly ten years,
ana during that tine led an existence
akin TO that of Jekyl and hyde. De,eo-
live William Il. Lyons has Green in GUS
tody at Huntingdon, the county seat OF
Huntingdon county, and is waiting there
! for requisitioD papers, which VIII reach
him I'M ming. Greea will then lie brought
TO this city, and Ia ken TO nnapUlis.
1t is believed that when Green was cap
tured he was in company with the woman
who helped To drag him down to ruin,
and il was by gaining the confidence OF
some OF her friends that the detectives
manag ged TO trace Green TO his hiding
place in the wilds of PENNSYLVANIA. While
Green is in the custody OF the law. and
will undoubtedly be prosecuted, his law
fui wife, whom he welded just a week be-
fore he fled from Annapolis, is prostrated
on a bed of illness.
STEALING FOR TEN YEARS.
was looked upon as most exemplary
young man, had been pilfering from the
bank for the past ten years, and has lived
the life OF the highest kind or roller.
All of the money he took from the bank
ne has squandercd, and the house he bought
for the woman with whom he lived has
been disposed of by her.
the woman in the case, so it is said
posed before the public as Mabel Green,
but her proper name is Martha Estee
Straitin. Green made her CoInfortable in
a house at No. 24O5 McCulloh street. and
when she and her paramour would visit
any Of her relatives. she would exhibit a
bogus marriage certificate to them.
All this cont.nued with the greatest har-
mony until Green's heart was smitten with
a young widow named Mrs. Charles EN-
ory OF Trappe, Md. Mrs. Emory was a
young lady OF the greatest reSpeCtability,
and her recent marriage TO Green was one
Of the social events OF the season at Trappe.
Green played a bold game, and how he in
tended To appease the Scorn OF the woman
he deserted. is not apparent
Then came the opportunity for the wo-
mai " HON Green had thrown over. Her
old lover was on his honeymoon, and,
while he was basking in the smiles of his
bride, the woman whom he had left be-
hind, and who evidently knew of his sin
of theft, managed to arouse the suspicious
VI tfic Dtilh OIL iCldiS
SHE AROUSED SUSPICION
She denied to the detectives that such
was her procedure, but other stories from
an authentic source tell q different tale.
On september IA Green and his bride re-
turned to Annapolis, and on the follow
ing morning the officers of the bank sent
word for him 10 come to that office. 1t
was the Intention of Green to take his wife
to Boston later in the week, and had Sc
cured passage on a steamer.
Instead OF going TO the bank Green came
direct to Baltimore, and then left inime-
diately for Philadelphia. When Mrs.
Green discovered her husbands shame the
same morning, and realized that he had de-
serted her. it is said that she herself tele-
graphed to Marshal Fry, telling him all
about the proposed Boston trip, and ask
ing him 10 apprehend him. The bird, how
ever, had flown.
Green was bonded in the Fidelity De-
posit Company, and, after a demand had
been made on that concern by the An
napolis Bank, and the money paid over,
search was made for the fleeing man.
President warfieid, of the Deposit Com
pany, went to Smith, West & Lyons, and
told them that no expense must be spared
in effecting Green's capture.
Thefirst move was togett he woman. That
was on the Wednesday afternoon following
Green's flight from Annapolis. Little
could be gained from her, but she let drop
the names OF few friends Of hers. and