The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-16
HIS STORY OF THE CRIME.
GEORGE VALENTINE TELLS HOW
HE ROBBED THE BANK.

Made His Confession to His Counsel,
Father, Uncle and His Wife-TOOk
the Money to Speculate and Hoped
to Pay Back-The First Steal Was
$25,OOO and the Last Was $4,000.
Gas stock Didn't Rise and Money
Could Not BE Replaced.
New York, July 15.-It Is estimated that
the theft OF George NJ. Valentine, the de-
faulling cashier OF the Middlesex County
Bank at Perth Amboy, N. j., will amount
to $4,000 or more. The bank examiners are
pushing their work of investigation as
rapidly as possible, and the exact amount
will not he known untl the examination
has been completed.
Edward 5. Savage, counsel for many
years for the Valentine family, and the
man who practically delivered up VaFen-
tine 10 the authorities to-day, told the
story that Valentine himself related to his
father, his uncle aud his wife concerning
his defalcation.
Valentine, he said, confessed everything
at his office on Thursday last. He appear
ed at Mr.. Savage's Office as the result of
an advertisement which appeared in a
New York newspaper on the day before.
He presented himself at o'clock al night
and found gathered in the office, besides
Mr.. Savage, his father, his wife and his
uncle, Howard Valentine, who had been
summoned. Valentine was pale and hag
gard. his clothes were dlsarranged and his
general appearance was that of a man who
had suffered much.
Valentines Confession.
Mr. Savage said to him: George, your
father VIII help you if he can. Unless
you will tell us the whole truth, you may
as weil go out that door at once"
I will tell you everything and do as
you say. 1 can stand 1t no longer" re
piled he
Very well, are you a defaulter?"
Yes, l am" He spoke with a forced
calm, and his hand tremoled violently as
he rested it on chai to support himself.
He stood with downcast eyes and averted
Mace.
rs it s5O.O0O?"
1T is more. 1t is twice that and more"
When he said that, his father sank inlo
a chair in a temporary collapse, and
mained speechless and motiOnless for sew
eral moments When he revived, his son
continued slowly: Il will tell you all and
have it over. ! do not know how much
l have taken" FIe hesitated, and then
went on: mo, not taken-stolen is the
word. l don't know how much. 1t is all
gone, and the stealing has gone on for
a long time But as there is
God above me, I hoped until the last to
make a lucky gamble and win enough to
pay everything. Then was going to stop.
My ruin dates back to when l was given
gilt-edge tip on Gas stock by a man
who should have been in a position to
know, and who said it was going away
up. | took $25 600 from the bank funds. 1
lost it almost in a day. From that time
until 1 made my last gamble, on Monday,
when lost $1,000. which ] took from the
Perth Amboy Savings Institution, l tried
TO catch up on my losses. OF course,
failed. All l have in the world of my
own as 1 stand here, is 6 cents"
After recidng how he had lost his last
dollar in We'll street and had gone with
out food because he had no money, how
he went from doorway 10 doorway in New
York getting a little rest in each when
he had no money to pay for hotel room,
Valentine said his attention was attract
ed by a personal notice in a newspaper
he had picked up, and he telephoned to
the number given.
Now, said he, 'I am ready to give my
self up, If you think that 1 should, ant
eXpiate my crime I cannot now say how
1 feel in regard 10 my wife and children.
1t is too much; 1 am overwhelmed"
When he finished Valentine broke down.
AS he had no money his father supplied
him with some On Friday he gave him
se.f up.