Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-11-27
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ested.
There was not much time left to the COM
mand of Mr.. Moxey for leisure, Tor again
the government wanted him, this time to
go to the First National bank, OF Ashville,
y. c., where president. cashier and di-
rector had endeavored to run the concern
under a mutual advantage plan. when. was
not strictly in keeping with the national
bank laws of the country. and which plan
encountered n trinity of indictments in the
grand jury room. revealing at the same
time. about as clean q case of bank loot
ing as can o. instaneed IN the re F rice eSaS oa
would have to be surrendered 10 give IN
detail all the important cases in which Mr..
MoXey has figured. but his work in con-
nection with the Missouri National bank.
of Kansas City, brought him prominence
here. This case is too well known TO re-
has disagreed, ii is sufficient to say That
the case will come up again, and Kansas
City will again have Mr.. Mickey within her
borders.
When Mr.. Moxey was in New Orleans
in the two cases mentioned above, he at
tracted considerable attention and the fol-
lowing clipping from the New Orleans
Times-Democrat Is interesting in this con-
nection. 1t reads: 1T is certainly IN
teresting to watch the course of events in
the progress of the bank trial in the United
States circuit court, not that there are
any sensational statements made by the
witnesses. nor because the attorneys Tor
the government and defense hammer away
ut legal points as they crop up. The real
thing of interest is the careful manner IN
which each item in the American National
bank books has been traced up. compared
and arranged in its place for use at the
| proper moment during the trial. A position
of bank examiner may be-, to use a COLO.
| comes to delve deeply into muddled ac-
counts the position is not so downy as at
first blush appears. Messrs. Mickey, john
| son and Burgwyn, the three experts of the
| government. have certainly reason to feel
satisfied that their work has been thor,
oughly done. Each in his particular field
Is 4 bright star, but the statement mat
Mr.. MoXey is the king pin i'll the bowling
alley of accountants. is a statement TO
which even his confreres VIII not take eN-
ception. Mr.: Moxey seems to have aSslml-
lated mentally every account in which IN
derwood & Co.., Bigelow & Co, the Amer
lean National nna 1 bank iden G ifiad with Sh fbe vase
are mixed up. and it is worth while to
| watch him during the progress of the case.
| Moxey has certainly reduced accounting, 10
an exact science and it is little worGer
that his services come high financially.
| He is rated as the best man in the country
in his line and that's why the government
| assigns HIM to unravel the tangled skeins
of accounts whenever a national BANK
| strikes the slippery skid of failure ana
| the tabled 'sickening thud.' Mr.. MeXey
has nearly. II not quite. a score Oh Dank
wreckers' scalps TO his credit, having form
ulated the data on which many a lax OF
guilty official was convicted of bank law
Violations And right here it will be in
teresting to note that since the above was
written there have been two more convic-
tions placed to the credit of Mr.. MoXey
in connection with the case above men
toned, they being the book-keeper or the
Union National bank. of New Orleans, and
his ~accomplice. who was a prominent law
yer of New Orleans.
On leaving Kansas City Mr.. MoXey goes
to Philadelphia where they are reopening
the case of the famous Chestnut street
National bank, and the readers of the
newspapers are doubtless familiar with the
fact that the man who robbed the bank,
a Mr.. Marsh. after wandering over the
earth for seven years, at last returned
to Philadelphia and given himself up 70
his bondsman, Mr.. William .Wanamaker;
saving that he was tired of being, hunted
over the earth and therefore came nome to
stand trial for his sin: -
Mt. Moxey. in what is given above. has
certainly been proven a very busy man
hut still he has found time to exhibit an
ability that few have given him credit as
p~ossessing-that of a. writer. Somehow OF
other he has found leisure to write a very
Interesting article of particular and specia
interest to the banking fraternity, rms
article was entitled Making Defalcatior
Difiicult' and was a conspicuous contribu,
ton to a recent number of the BANKER
Magazine