The sun., 1903-10-06
MISSING UNDER $1,000 BAIL.
Accused Newark Bank Clerk Fails u
show UP for Trial.


Edmund J. Smith. the former discount
clerk Of the Merchants National Bank
OF Newark, was to appear at Trenton yes
terday for preliminary hearing In the
United States District Court on charges OF
forgery and falsifying accounts to the
extent of $4,000. He failed to appear and
1t was at once assumed that he had skipped
his bail Of 5000. furnished by Charles d
Hargrave, a real estate dealer, and Jacob
Wigler, a baker, both Newarkers.
Hargrave was one Of Smiths friends and
Wigler was induced to 60 on his bond, it
Is asserted, through hopes Of getting paw.
ment for the risk. It seems that Wfejer
became worried about the stability of Smit h
on Saturday and spent the day and part Of
the night watching for him in the streets.
He had heard that Smith had Jumped
his bail and that the United States authori.
ties who had been keeping trac X of his move.
ments had lost the trail on Saturday morn.
ing and had sent out an alarm. This, Deputy
Marshal Garside does not admit, but nobody
has been found who has seen Smith since
Saturday morning.
His wife said yesterday that she had not
seen him since Saturday. She has no rea.
son. for shielding him. because Of the way
he has treated her.
The American Surety Company has rea-
cause its bond for his good behavior in he
bank Is twice the amount of the bond ac-
cepted for his appearance for trial in the
United States Court, and the surety COM
pany is said to have paid up the amount.
Smith g bail was made easy because action
was not brought against him until months
after he was discharged from the bank
because Of his association with won an.
He left his wife and family for this woman
and brought about q public quarrel with
his wife in the Broad street station of the
Central Railroad Of New Jersey. which
ended In both women accompanying him
to his home and there remaining until
early in the morning.
as much right there as Smiths own wife.
She was Mrs John Colley and her husband
obtained divorce from her on account
OF her alleged intimacy with Smith.
The bank officials refused to keep Smith
at work after this, though they apparently
had no suspicion that his books We're not
straight. A later inves, ,igation, it is alleged,
revealed Irregularities and Smith left New
ark with Mrs. Colley and went to the homo
of her father ard brother in Williamson,
W.. Va, where they were welcomed by the
father, a former clergyman who keeps q
cheap hotel, and by the brother, who fought
the West Virginia officers when they arrested
Smith ut the request OF the Newark authori-
ties.
Smith did not seem to care who got him
and returned to Newark with two private
detectives after brief skirrnish in which
pistols were drawn and threats exchanged
Smith was taken into custody by United
States Commissioner Jones until bail was
furnished.
He had been walking around the streets
of Newark since then making vague threats
OF exposures which would be brought out
by his trial. but he daily became more
haggard and showed indications OF ex-
treme nervousness.
His wife took him back after his return
to Newark and Mrs. Cclley has made no
more trouble since he returned.