The Washington times., 1905-09-17
BANKER BY DAY.,
THUG AT NIGHT
Paying Teller Arrested for
Barring Hold-Up
TAKEN PRISONER By BOY
Friends Believe Deed Was a Prank
Performed While He Was
intoxicated.

! DENVER, Col. Sept. 16.-Paying
teller of the Denver National Bank in
the daytime. and highwayman at night
is the Jekyll-Hyde existence laid by the
Denver police at the door OF William V.
Wright, who was taken into custody
last night by officers and released at an
early hour this morning.
The story OF the alleged double life
or the young man. which his many
friends have vainly attempted to sup
press, came as a thunderbol;, and the
exclusive circles in which the young
man moved are asos with excitement.
Well Dressed Man.
The young man well dressed. and of
sent!emanly deme. nor, and TO. in the
least having the nang-dog appearance
usually expected OF a hold-up. was
brought into the police station at the
city Hall shortly after midnight this
morning in the patrol wagon in custody
or Patrolman James Cummings, who
had rescued him from a seventeen-year-
old boy. Charlie McGillis. one of the
cfficers of County Judge L.adsay's juve-
nile court
According TO McGillis, and The victims
OF the alleged hold-up, two men, Sam
uel Stark, shoemaker and b. Rushe-
whisky, a carpenter. both thrifty He
brews. who live In the west side of Den
Yer, had been down town late attend
ing a meeting and seeing their friends
and were walking home. They had
crossed the bridge over the Piatt river.
There they Were roughly seized and
demand made for their money. Instead
of complying they called for help. when
the hold-up man whipped out a re-
volver and cooking 1t said he would kill
them If they uttered another sound.
Heard Cry for Help.
McGillis, who lives near the scene,
hearing the cry for aid. rushed out with
a loaded club in his hand and found the
robber with the gun stin ready for ac-
tion.
The hold-up attempted to turn the gun
on the lad. who raped him over the
head with his billy and took the revolver
away. McGillis called Help and
walked his prisoner until he met Patrol
man Cummings.
On the way toward police headquar-
ters the young man admitted that he
was the paying teller of a bank with
ST., 900 600 in deposits. He begged his
captors 10 let. him go, saying he would !
be ruined If ne were exposed. The young |
men. however. held to their prisoner
Ills name was entered on the police |
blotter as W. z. Wright. but the police |
captain recognized the identity or the |
alleged hold-up.
He was thrown into the bull pen with |
other arrests 10 await action and no /
entry was made at the time the |
,harge iof highway robbery. which had |
been lodged by young McGillis and the /
NO victims
Early In the morning. before the time /
or the police magistrate 10 dispose OF !
,ases, Wright was allowed 10 go. The /
,ntry on the blotter was written sick"
The police captain. waen asked in re-
sard 10 the action in the matter. said
hat he believed the young man was
,nly i'll or slightly Intoxicated, and that /
he was probably in no way responsible
or the affair.
Mr.. Wright, paying teller of the Den
-er National Bank. was at his desk
when the bank opened this morning. He
Ienied that he was implicated in the
natter IN any way He ridiculed the /
dea that he was a highwayman.