The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-11-20
MEMORY AIDS THEFT
Method of Frank w. Browns
StealingS Found.
THE AMOUNT IS s191, 500
FATHER READY TO GIVE UP ALL
HIS PROPERTY.

Cincinnati, O.. Nov. 19--The experts
WHO have been working today with Re
ceiver Oliver L. Tucker, national bank
examiner on the books of the German
National bank at Newport, Ky, place
the shortage OF Frank ". Brown. the
missing assistant cashier and individual
bookkeeDer, At $1g1, 500
According to reports from those who
were with Brown when he eft last Tues
day night, he had less than 500 with
him. Drown $ salary was onIy st,9VV per
year. cases are now cited where ne
spent more than JnaL amount N One
Gay his DOn0 was Tor $lV,VVJ, and IL Is
good as Iar as II goes.
nIJed oUaJes district Attorney Hill
viii arrive tomorrow from kaducan. wnon
II Is saId CRIMINAL proceedings WIN pc De
gun. The federal detectives nave CERTAIN
PERSONS under surveillance ana there are
/ reports tonight about arrests CnaC Viii
lOnow on the ARRIVAL o. the district at
torney.
al banA last Saturday, S2Uc,UUJ was Sc
cured IN Cincinnati TO BRUCE over Inc
trouble rms was returned today and
| Receiver Tucker mad Other money ana
/ papers also transferred 10 Clncinhat.
Used Wonderful Memory.
| Browns system required a wonderful
| memory Tue experts say he earned IN
/ ms mead the figures that enabled hlm 10
call OF correctly lot o. 1alSe entries
! ia a way TO LnlUW the clerks who were
/ doing the checking with him Oft the
/ UracK A deDosItor wouiu put in s. 10.
! brown WOULD enter the proper amounC
! OF the deposit IN one DOCK ana enter L
/ as ElU0 III another He would take the
/ uiHrieHLO, ao,,.e, himself. InUn, wAoli -
! came 70 cheSklns up, ne would handle
/ one of the books.
-Ar2t3-o= CLERK would check and Brown
| would call OF Instead OF calling OF SIUt
| winch appeared as the amoune OF de
/ post on ,nc BUUh nI1u nc was uclluIiuS
he would call it as $3,lO0, thus making II
correspond with the book in the hands oil
the OJner clerk.
He also, it Is alleged, worked 1t in an
other way deDOSltor would draw Out
| 500. Brown wound make the proper en-
l try in one book and enter S3,iUO III an
| Otner. When the uepOSltOr mad ms -ac
count checked up the figures were takeT
| tEC-s- the book IN which the correct en-
IL haG been made " hen the bank OF
Hc-cls looked to see what amount Wa:
due the depOsitOr they were given theii
information from the books which show
ed that S, 100 had been Withdrawn. Brow
had memorized all the individual account
and the experts found no private marks
OF any kind on the books. The genera
/ ledger was kept correct and balanced
with the cash, while the individual ledger
it is alleged, was fixed to suit Brown
purposes, the former being the one tina
the bank officials examined.
No Run on the Bank.
This bank is closed by order of TIL
0'i''l III 0''1i u INT ~ %. 'i 7. TUCKER.
National Bank examiner
The obve notice appeared on the door
/ OF the stately bulldng OF me Germa
; National bank OF Newport, KY, prlor t
: the time for opening today. The salien
Io,~Js o. the cause Or the notice had bee
known since Sunday morning ana there
fore there were none OF the usual scene
( accompanying a run on the BANK by de
pOSItors. The defalcatiOn OF AsSIstan
[ Cashier Frank NJ Brown TO the amour
OF about $4,000 was ract so oVerwnelnl
70 ing that % depOsIJOr Was FOOLISH enOuS
to suppose Jnat any good could be &C
. / cOmpuShed by attempting to get none
/ from the BANK today
! National Bank Examiner .. P. Tuckel
, who IS in charge, in an interview IoGa
said the alleged defalcation was not dis
I covered by HIM until 10 0 clock on Sal
. ! urGaE night. that both j. ? and the bank
I own experts had been unable 10 ma any
I thing wrong until that time, The discoN
Z cry was made in q comparison or Brown
| Individual ledger with the CASHIER : dali
/ checking up. Here, he said, it was foun
/ that Brown had been forcing balance
/ from day to day until the total of Sly2.G
/ had been Withdrawn from the funds
, the bank
Father Turns Over His All.
e The only bond which the bank holds
II that of Paris g. Brown, the father
d the assistant cashier, who IS wei
known river man and president of tr
= / Consolidated Boat Store company TIL
bond is an open one. conuiuoned
, cover any shortage by the son. II Is. sa
n that though Paris g Brown has Volui
" it's obligation not more tnan SZ0,y.3 can
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