The Washington herald., 1907-07-06

| New York. July Chester 3 Runyan.
| fugitive paying teller /of the Windsor
| Trust Company was arrested by detec-
| tives this afternoon in fiat AT slg
| West liith street. The tip that he was
there came from Mrs. Laura Carter. with
whom he had been living since he left
the trust company's office last Saturday.
The suit case i'm which he carried off his
loot was recovered. with S5iHO in the tis-
sue-eovered original bundles. OF the rest
| OF the missing S96,317. Runyan says he
/ lost $4,000 in stock speculation before he
| disappeared, and had given Mrs. Carter
$i5ea. The other $1,000 the woman must
have stolen, he thinks.
| Mrs. Carter says that she cannot read.
but knows a picture when she sees one.
Runyan had not been out Of the 14i,h
street fat since he arrived there. but he
had sent out for the papers every morn
/ ing and on Thursday. fin one Of them.
Mrs. Carter found his photograph.
Threatens 20 Xiii Her.
Isn't that you. George she demanded
/ 7f Runyan-she knew him only as George.
she claims.
That's George. all right enough she
says Runyan replied, "but If you or the
maid, Duncan, say anything about me
/ III blow your heads of"
The maid is Mary Duncan, a colored
woman who came for the housework in
| the afternoon.
Hes q dangerous man. the woman
said she thought This afternoon she
/ leiL ostensibly for the grocer's. but. in
stead went 10 the West One Hundred and
flith-second street police station and in
/ formed Che police that a man answering
The description of Ruuyan was UP at her
fiat In his paiamas, with a suitcase fun
of bank notes
/ Five detectives We're hustled 20 the
I tat-house. In the dining room. backing
toward The parlor door, they found Runyan
He was pointing revolver at the de-
tectives but his hands were wobbIy. Two
~ the detectives. with pistols drawn. adj
vanced on him. and Runyau finally low
cred his gun and surrendered. The de-
tectives took Furyan. the woman in-
Former, and the maid t0 the police sta
/ ton Arriving there. EUnvan threw him
seq back on a couch i'm Police Inspector
Thomrson's Office and lighted a cigar
Gives Her $50 a Week.
The woman told the police she first met
Runysn the night Of June Is, on Broad
way, and he went with her 10 her homs
at 80 West sixty-dfth street. Later he
went there To live. she said. paying her
go week June % DE decided to move.
and she secured the fat on West 1lith
I 1rr
yam didn't reach there until l2.3g Sunday
morning. when he brought the suit case.
/ but she did not then learn what il con-
/ tanned
When the woman said this a scene
started right away.
Didn't I give you Sl1W12" demanded
/ Runydn. sitting mp Oh the couch
S.m." ''''
Woman. look me in the eye and say
| only gave You Nf1G-'
I'll look YOU in the eve" she retorted.
7 and say that you gave me only Szp9.
and that this morning / gave it back to
I you
Runyan dramatically denounced this
statement as an untruth
Last Touch" Only for $4,000.
When Inspector Thompson got down 70
the real quizzing. ne told Runvan that
what he might say would be used against
him, and asked him how much money
there was IN the suit case.
"SiXty-four thousand five hundred dol
lars. so far as l know. replied the teller.
Where's the rest OF it,"
'One of these men has il" Indicating
the detectivesl,
Detective Marion produced Runvan's
poCketbo0k but il held only $40. Runvan
then explained that If the rest Of the Sg6.-
30 was meant, he only got away with
about $500 I'm actual cash last Saturday.
because some $1,000 had been taken be-
fore that and dumped vainly into Wall
street Ruuyan could not really say"
exactly how much he stole He helped
one OF the detectives TO count the pack
ages of bills remark.ng as he did so,
that he was IAN old hand a il and might
save some time The total was S54410.
Got Diamonds and Piano.
Runyan pleaded with Mrs. Carter to
own up that he gave her Sl5.CO0, but she
was obdurate. and expressed entire is-
norance OF receiving any such amount.
She remembered though. that Runyan
had bought her a five-diamond bracelet
and a ring. The bracelet she was wear
ing and the ring she had taken to a jew
eler's. She admitted also that Runyan
gave her some money 20 buy piano but
she only paid $40 down on 1t.
Bunyan. in answer 10 questions by In
spector Thompson. said he had been
spending recklessly
When the inspector got through with
Runyan he had a session with the Off
GERS of the trust company. including
President John A. Young He told Mr..
Young. in substance. that he had
plunged a bit In the street, so he just
decided TO get in deep while he was at
it. Runyan and the woman were held on
a charge Of grand larceny. and the maid
as a suspicious person.