Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-11-28
CASHIERS ICSTEAL
He Got Away With Two Hundra
Thousand Dollars.
DEPOSITORS WILD WITH ANGEL
0efaulting Gathers Operations Said &
Hsve Extended Over Ten Years-aA.
Whereabouts UnknoWn.-A Jea.-
Ous Woman Lave Tips.

Cincinnati, Ohfls Nov. 1S.-Unatea
Sna'te Bank Exam aer Tucker today
Seok charge of Il. German Naa.ona
bank at Newport, KY, and posted
notice tlat the bank woud remain
closed pending an ,Aamina, ion.
Examiner Tucker also announces
unotficia ally that Frank NJ. Brown, the
aHsaslRno cashier, was missing and
THAT q partial investigation showed
that Brown was short about $2O1,.
0Oo.
Brown had been with the bank
edghteen years, wan one of the most
trusted men ever connected with this
bank, an-d it is stated by the experts
that his operations extended back a
oar as ten years.
The ca1 ftal stock Of the company h
ealy 100000. Browns alleg d short
ago lis double that amount am.l more
than the reserve and all the assets
including their real estate.
While Afford gob away with $780,.
600 in New York, he did it in a large
bank, but Brown did mot have SO
much TO go on and seems to have gone
the full limit for q small bank in
Q city of Less than 81, 900 inhabitants
The First National Bank OF New.
port was wrecked two years ago by
Cashier Youtsey and now with ths
German National Bank closed New
port has only one bank left. For TIVE
weeks there have been rumors that
Brown was short and some depositors
Withdrew their accounts. Three
weeks ago the bank examiners made
q good statement of the bank and the
officers ard directors ,a1Iayed suspicion
animation and TO their hast statement
Last Wednesday Brown left II
was ANNOUNCED That he had gone
hunting on a vacaimon. He did get
q ticket for Ohin, III, but it is learned
now tlaalt he did not go there and Ii
as gener ALLY believed that he is out Of
this country with plenty of money In
his possession
1t is LEARNED that Brown was suS
pended last Tuesday pend ng an in.
veStigation and that experts have
BEEN ait work all the past week, while
the officers and directors have been
ma0dng announcements that every.
thing was all right. Last Friday the
officers and directors published in the
papers of this chty q shalt ment thai
the bank had been found all right and
that THE rumors about Brown were
false. They continued making these
statements ITO the press as Latte a.
midnight, butt the statements were
not hccerted by the Commercial Tr:-
bune, which exposed mot Or ~ KfoW1A
but also the bank officers, ard caused
. panic in Newport tcday SO thiait the
bank had to be taken i'm Charge by
the examiner. The wildeti scenes
were Witnessed in Newport today and
troub lis feared tomorrow when the
officers and directors will be comfrcnt
ed by the people who have hunted
khem I'm vain today.
Brown, lit is alleged, was living q
fast Efe, with wine, women and gam
bling lin his repertoire. His career
was rot crit short by cily discovery
at the bank till jealous women gaNl
him away. Brown is q widower w1eA
one son, aged 10 years, who lives with
Browns father, PARTS c. Brown, e1
mayor of Newport and one of khs
leading business men of Cincinnati
Last summer Brown viSi ed Yellow
stone Park amid a certain woman from
Cincinnati wanted ITO accompany him,
but this was denied her. When she
asceatafned some time afterward that
another woman was with Brown ON
his western trip, the Cincinnati wo-
main gtawe the bank officials some in
formation thlrt brought about crt
sis.
The only farewell letter thar Brown
q known 10 have left was to dhis wo.
man, whose apartments are on NintA
street in Cincinnati, and in this leStee
1t is alleged, he admits that he 50
cured about all he could get and thaa
the time had come to say farewell
Brown, ut is said, was "a great poker
player with the limit never too hdgl
and 6t ds said he had been a plunge,
on horse races for years. His bd.s ]
the races were frequently too high foa
the pool rooms I'm Cowngbou, KY, and
he had brokers in both Chicago and
New York.
The officers Of the German NationS
bank are: president, Harry Weideneri
vdce-president, James NJ Southgtatsi
cashier, E. C. Remme.
Aal of Them are wealthy and respon.
sfble mem and they will be able ia
make the losses good, but the fate oi
the bank is in doubt owing to the in,
tense feeling among the depositors-
Among the directors is Paris G
Brown, the father of the defauDter
who ds known from P4ttsburg to New
Orleans as the head OF the stores fol
boat supplies. The cashier of this banl
Is also THE paydnG teller, and Brown
relieved him as paying teller when thu
cashier went to his dinner. 1t wa
stated that Brown did most of hia
work during the upon lunch of tAs
cashier.
There was quite . run on the banA
yesterday, but the usual announce
ment was made as at continued to bl
made to the press till after midnight
but more of the rush is expected a
the bank tomorrow. even If there hRf
been u notice posted that the bank Is
closed pending an 6mves6 CATION, and
some fear that there will be serious
trouble, even to the efxent Of vio-
lemce
There are more than 1,500 deposit
associations that have the savings ot
many poor people. These classes
fMkeh more today about the state
ments given out last Thursday and
afmce then than sak,put Browns opera
dons. Brown wrote to a woman IN
Cincinnati thhh he was bound for
South America, but the Enquirer vii
say tomorrow that It has good su'
thority for saying that Brown sailed
from New York yesterday and sha1