The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-10-18
BANK MESSENGER VANISHES.
70 DOES ABOUT % 900 COLLECTED
on HIS ROUNDS.
wallet win some SIS 900 IN Cheeks. Not
Easily Negotiable. Comes bach by
Express May Have Beeo Robbed the
New Amsterdam Ham Folks Nay.

New Amsterdam hank Folks Nay.
George Armitase. a messenger In the
employ Of the New Amsterdam National
Bank at Broadway and Thirty-nin'h street.
left the bank on Tuesday morning TO col
lect on n BOT OF checks and drafts. He
usually finished his round and got back
90 the bank by 4 O'Clock In the afternoon.
On Tuesday he failed to return and now
the police are looking for him. The banks
officers express a fear that he has met
with foul play. The police don seem TO
believe anything Of the bind
Yesterday morning the bank received
by express the wallet which Armftage
had carried. In IL were most VI the checks
and drafts entrusted to him TO collect.
The sum OF q. ose, So was unaccountcd for.
While tho bank people would no, admit
that this amount was cash. II was learned
from other sources that II was all cash and
that Of the papers returned all wer" either
n~on-negotiable or were 81 n kind 10 have
attracted suspicion had an enort been
made to Use them. The value they repre-
scented TO the bank Is supposed To have
been In the n~cighborhood Of s,o.ooo
Armltagc was about p years Old He
had been employed In the hank about sis
months. He started life A. n cabin boy
on Prank Tilford's yacht. Then hc got n
job In the Chase National Bank. Mr.. Til
ford, who II n dirrctor 81 the New Am-'er-
Han Bank. had beer impressed with the
boys good qualities. however. and spoke
a good word which secured him a place
in that lank last April. since then he has
ben employed a. bank messenger. and
every one in the hank had come e. have
great faith IN him. A. times no "arried
large sums around with him and h. always
did his work faithfully.
when the young man started out on
Tuesday morning To- make the DAYS col
leCtson- he should have gone. 80 the Presi-
dent and cashier said yesterday. To about
twenty-five banking houses and large mer-
camille Arms. He did not 60 to all OF these.
When late in thc afternoon he had not re-
turned suspicion was aroused. hut even then
u was d'-rided 20 wait until morning i'iore
Investigating But the next day thcr was
still no news, so Armitagc'~ brother aud
sister. WIN are Employed downtown, the
brother ia tho Chemical BANK, were sent
for. They -aid that for some time Armitage
had not h~nn living with them. but they
supposed that he wa boarding at Broad
way and l5sth street.
Mr.. KAUFMAN. the cashier. hn-tsned up
there. He found that Armi,agc had not
been thcr" for ihrg weeks. Th"u Capt
iUUN ana NV iAN'l NAdNNN bhhiaAA'H
Company. under whose bond Armitagr
was. vers informed. Tie hon wac for
5000. The bank people stui sald they
feared that The young man wa~ a victim ~
foul play. Tho firms from which tn col
~lcrtion- Vorr Co have he-u made were asked
10 stop payment on the checks.
just after he opening u business AZ the
hank yesterday morning q. j. Bauinan.
tho cashier. received a parcel from Dodd'z
ENprc--. la IL was Arnitas"'- bank wallet.
wrappzd In brown paper and addnrs'~d to
him. in Car" VI the hank. The handN rting
was backhand and don. with a stub pen.
Mr. BaunAn said that while h" had not
made a careful examination i seemed 10
h. disguised handwriting Aunitage dad
not write hsckhsnded
The pols al once -et Ia work to trace the
package. IL had tscn reCeiVed AT the som
pany'- offiCs Ia Nassau street. BROOKLYN,
from a middIe-agsd oolor-d woman on We'd
ne-day evening When she was asked II
II contained articles Of value she said II did.
The clerk asked her what tho value was.
-Oh. | don't care 20 give that said the
woman She refused her name, but gave
l~r address A. az Bergen street. That y
vacant house In charge Of a caretaker The
clerk wrote on the packAge that nam" and
value had been refused
MY son, who ~ employed at the Orpheum
Theatre. asked ms to $50 that the parcel
went all right said tho woman AZ sh" left
the ofiCc. Detectives O'Rourke and Fraz'e
IN w lbNnN no ONE NJ iHf NilfuATt IA hii'N
anything about the packagr
They have al-o harmed that the me--
ssngeT was last seen at the Office OF one ot
the firms on his route az $50 on Tuesday
afternoon In the evening. - the polio"
say. IA tried To cash a check Tor 81 50. wh"rc.
they decline To tell. OF The sum unaccounted
for and believed Ia have been col
lected ln ossh. S.Opn. The police Say. was
collected by Armitsg" on the day before
he disappeared. and was not turned in 10y
HIM nj the bank
1T y very possible. said President
Of the bank yesterday. that the boy
may have bren Knocked m the head. but W"
cannot toll yet. We ha W had the hospitals
searched 10 -.e II he has been hurt, but We
found no trac~ Of HAN. II l. up 10 the
police and tho surety company now
Tn police boldly a-sert the belief hat the
messcnger has absCnnded, and they ARE in
clincd 60 believe that he had confcderate-,
one OF " HON got tho cOlored woman To send
the wallet hack, although they believe that
this act Of kindnes- was i~nsiigated by the
ms.zegnyyr hiuself