The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-11-20
MEMORY SERVED HIM
ENABJEn BROWN no GET AVIAN
WIN ABOUT S2Ol.0Oo.
KEPT FIGURES IN HIS HEAD.
FATHER WILL HAVE 10 GIVE Ur
ALL ans rR RorEHTN.


More Amounts Ia tlts Mind-t.aHmi-
per Tucker Made Receiver of the
Dank-BroWn's Fntbcr signed Bond
20 ray Any shortnEr.
Cincinnati. Nov. % The exports who
have been working to-day with Receiver
Tucker on the books OF tho German Ma
tlonal Bank q, Newport ~. place the
shortage oG Frank NJ. Brown. the miss-
ing assistant cashier and individual b. Ok
keeper. at Sigl. 600
According 10 reports from those who
were with Brown when be LEFT last Tues
day night. he had los.s than $50 with him.
Browns salary was only 81 80 ser year
Cases are now cited wncrr he spent mo o
than that amount n one day. Ills bond
was for tio.coo. ana % D. good as Gar a.
Il goes.
United states District Attorney ull viii
arrive from paducnh. tomorrow. when
Il Is snid criminal proceedings viii be be-
gun Tho federal detectives have certain
persons under surveiliaEco and there are
reports tonight about urrests that will
follow on the arrival OF District Attorney
Hm.
During the run on the German Rational
Bank At Newport last saturday 5e0Ooo
were secured IA Cincinnaa to bridge over
tho trouble This was returned to-day anh
Receiver Tucker had other moneys ana
papers also transferred 10 Cincinnati.
Required Wonderful Memory.
Browns system required a wonderful
/ he - hsa faH II
his head the figures that enabled him to
cali on correctly a lot OF false entries In
a way 10 throw the clerks who were do
ing The checking with him on the track.
a dcpositor would put In Gioo Brown
would enter for proper amount OF the do
posit in ono book aud enter it az SiCo In
another. lie wouh take the difference.
Noo. himself Then when o. came TO
checking up he would handle one OF the
books. Another clerk would check and
Brown would call or. Instead of calling
on tioo which appeared az the amount
Of the deposit on the book which he was
handling. he would call it az 81 l0o thus
making q correspond with the book In
the hands of the other tlerk
lie also, 81 b alleged. worked IN another
way. depositor would draw ont gifn
Brown would make thc proper entry ln
NA' NAfh AAAA fHfHtHi - NHa lli an ftNFfs W NFW
the dopoHitor had his account checked up
the figures wsro taken from the book
IN which tho correct entry had been
made When the bank officials looked
to see what amount was due the de-
positor they were gwen their Information
from the book which showed that S 100
had been Withdrawn.
Had No Private Marks.
Brown had memorizod all tho individual
accounts and the experts nnd no private
marks OF any kind on the books. The
general ledger was kept correct and bal
anced with the cash. while the individual
ledger. u Il alleged. WAS fixed 20 suit
Browns purpose. the former being the
one that the bank officials examined.
II Is generally believed nat Browns
FIRST shortage started accidentally with an
error Of 5000 IN the individual accounts.
Notice on the Banks Doors.
Newport Ky. Nov. i9-"This bank g.
closed by the order 81 the controller of
the currency. o. =. Tucker
National Bank Examiner"
This was the notice paced to-day on tho
doors of the stately building of the Ger
man National Bank Of Newporf before the
hour for opening The salient facts u the
cause Of the notice had been known since
sunday morning nnl. therefore there
were none of the usual SCENES accompany
ing run on the bank by depos.fars
National Bank Examiner Tucker who
g. IN charge. stated that the alleged 1e-
falcation Was not discovered hy him until
70 o'clock Sunday night. that both he ana
banks own experts had b. ca unable 20
nnd anything wrong untii that time The
discovery was made in q comparison -
Browns individual ledger with the cash-
icr's daily checking up Here IL was
found that Brown had bocu forcing bal
ances from day 10 day until tho total o.
$1,000 had been Withdrawn from the
funds OF the bank.
The only bond which the bank holds =
that Of Paris e.. Brown. father of the
assistant cashier, who is a well known
river man ana president or the Consoll-
dated Boat Store Company This bond D.
an open one. conditioned 20 cover any
shortage by the son. Mr Brown has vol
unfairly offered his entire property 90
meet its obligation. Examiner Tucker
says the stock is of no value as double
liability assessment must be made