Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1900-11-24

Che Fugitive Bank EmpIoye, whose
Salary WAS Only Fifteen Hundred
Dollars Year, often Spent More
Il Than That Amount I'm a Day.
: Newport, KY, Nov. 2o.-The experts
who have been working with receiver
Tucker on the books of the German
National bank place the shortage of
Frank Brown, the missing assistant
cashier and individual bookkeeper, at
k191 GOO. According to reports from
those who were with Brown when he
left last Tuesday night he had less than
$500 with him. Browns salary was
only $1,000 per year. Cases are now
cited where he spent more than that
amount in one day. His bond was for
$4,000, and it is good as far as It
goes.
Browns system required a wonder
ful memory. The experts say he car
ried in his head the figures that en-
1bled him to call off correctly a lot Of
false entries in way to throw the
clerks who were doing the checking
with him off the track. A depositor
would put in So, 100. Brown would en-
ter the proper amount of the deposit in
one book and enter it as 500 in an
other. He would take the difference,
tS,uOO, himself. Then when IL came to
checking up he would handle one of
the books. Another clerk would check
and Brown would call off. Instead of
calling off 500, which appeared as the
amount OF the deposit on the book
which he was handling, he would call
II as $500, thus making it correspond
with the book in the hands of the other
clerk.
He also, it is alleged. worked in an
otner way depositor would draw
out SlO0. Brown would make the
proper entry in one book and enter
$500 in another. When the depositor
had his account checked up the figures
were taken from the book in which the
correct entry had been made. When
inc bank officials looked to see what
amount was due the depositor they
were given their information from the
books which showed that $4,000 had
been withdrawn.
Brown had memorized all the indi-
vidual accounts. and the experts find
no private marks of any kind on the
books. The general ledger was kept
correct and balanced with the cash.
while the individual ledger. il is al
legged, was fixed to suit Browns pur-
poses, the former being the one that
The clerks OF the German National
bank who are working with Receiver
fuckers experts yesterday discovered
another plan operated by Brown. When
check was entered Oct. 81 for S3.45 he
entered II as s.. 003.45 and got the ben
eit OF $4,000, On the same date he nut
n two in front of an entry of $3.50 and
got $4,000 more. The experts saw that
Brown repeatedly credited himself with
$1,000. $4,000 and $4,000 when he did
not deposit anything, but took out the
amount soon afterward Browns books.
experts say, show that he did not
strike for sums less than 81. 900 In anv
of these transactions.
Brown, it is alleged, was living a
last life, with wine, women and gamb-
ling in his repertoire. His career was
not cut short by any discovery at the
bank till a jealous woman gave him
away. Brown is a widower. with one
son, aged 10 years, who lives with
Brown's father, Paris c.. Brown. ex-
mayor OF Newport, and one of the lead
Ing business men OF Cincinnati. Last
summer Brown visited Yellowstone
Park and a certain Cincinnati woman.
1t Is said. wanted to accompany him
but this was denied her. When she
hscertained some time afterward that
another woman was with Brown on his
western trip the Cincinnati woman
gave the bank officials some informa-
zion that brought on a crisis.