The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-05-19
SANITY MILLER.
While Active in Church and
Sunday School Work
In Denver, O. Il. Miller Now of
Chicago,
DOES UP THE BANKS
For Nearly Four Hundred
Thousand Dollars.
He Has Been Indicted Along
With Bank Officials.
WAS KNOWNN
He Lived at EmpOria Some
Years Ago,
And Operated a Branch Office
In Topeka.

Denver May 19.-The federal grand
jury now in session has found several
indictments against bank officials and
others accused Of having conspired to
defraud depositors in banks in this
city which have closed their doors dur
ing the past three years.
John j. Reithmann, president and
John J. Reithmann. Jr., vice president,
Charles NJ. Clinton, cashier, and Chas-
Kunzmiller, assistant cashier Of the
German National bank are charged
with having falsi1ed figures in the re-
port to the comptroller of the condition
of that Institution on May 4. 1898. 1t is
said that charges Of a more serious
nature against these men are being
considered by the grand jury.
tit is also announced today that o. i.
Miller of Chicago, has been indicted on
the charge of embezzling S125 600 from
the Commercial National bank and
Charles III. Dow who was president Of
the Commercial, is charged with hav-
ing cOnspired with Miller to defraud
Commercial dop0sitors and with hav-
ing violated the national banking law
by lOaning to Miller S145 COO whereas
under the law the bank could not loan
to one individual or company more than
10 per cent of its capital stock which
was $500 0e0.
o. H. Miller figured quite prominent
~ was and is stin the head Of the
Miller Hernia company which handles
trusses and other patents for the cure
of rupture and has Offices i'm Denver,
Chicago and other cities. Investiga-
t1on of Millers financial affairs since
the crash of SO has developed the fact
that his entire Indebtedness to the ma
tional banks of Denver aggregated
2345. 900. OF this amount S192 GOO was
secured from the Commercial and Ger
man National banks and the remain
ing Sl53 600 was borrowed of banks that
survived the panic The American
National which suspended recently, is
said to have been a loser.
Receiver Frank Adams of the Com
mercial National and Seph T. Hill of
the German National have been press
ing Miller for settlement but the
truss dealer who moved his residence
to Chicago soon after his financial
hackers went to the wall has been
standing them off with promises to
bond his company and square up his
Indebtedness Miller ffoated bonds in
chicago for S3Z5 600, but not one cent
Of this money ever reverted to the
banking institutions fla Denver to
which he was largely indebted. 1t was
upon the receipt Of the news that he
had received the money from his bond
ing operation that the receivers with
drew all objections to criminal prose
cution, as they We're now assured he
did not intend to pay While in DEN
Yer Miller was very active in church
and Sunday school work
1.-THE @. r. Miller referred to in the
above telegram is from Emporfa He
was a very prominent man in church
and Y Nj. O.. a. circles in Emporia and
afterwards in Denver.
He was the inventor of a truss for
the cure or relief of hernia and was SO
successful in its manufacture that he
left Emporia about Is years ago for
Denver, where he organized a big COM
pany for the manufacture of his truss.
He was a hustler and esta blished
branch offices all over the United States