The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-06
BETRAYER OF
RUNYAN IS
GLIB
Says She Could Use Reward
Money to Keep What
EmbezzIer Gave Her.

NEW YORK, July 6.-Chester B.
Runyan, the paying teller of the Wind
sor Trust Company, who is alleged to
have stolen $96,S17 from that company.
and Mrs. Laura Carter, the woman
who betrayed his hiding place to the
police after he had given her a part
of the stolen funds, were arraigned in
police court today.
Runyan's spirit appeared 10 be
broken by the disastrous outcome of
his venture into the reals Of ultra
frenzied finance. and he maintained
the demeanor of a man who knew that
he had little to hope for. He had
passed a sleepless night in the police
station and showed the effects of his
worry when he was subjected to the
gaze of a curious crowd on his way to
police headquarters.
On the contrary, Mrs. Carter bore her
arrest with considerable nonchalence.
She slept .unconcernedly On her cot in
the matron's quarters at the police sta
ton last night, and undertook the
journey downtown u~ndismayed by the
predicament of her escapade with Run
yam had placed her. h chatted with
the reporters in lively fashion while in
the subway train bound to the court
room. Runyan, however, had little to
say to anybody and appeared to be
terribly distressed.
What had become of $42, 900 of the
trust company's stolen funds was still
a mystery so far as the public was con-
cerned up to the time that the two
prisoners were taken to the court.
Runyan had in his possession when ar
rested $54, 410. OF the balance he said
he lost about $751; 900 in speculation in
stocks before he disappeared from the
office of the Windsor Trust Company
last Monday; that he had given $4,000
to Mrs. Carter, and that he believed she
had taken $40, 900 more without his
knowledge.
Mrs. Carter at first stoutly denied
that she had any of the trust COM
pany's funds, admitting that Runyan
gave her SIS, 900, but asserting that she
promptly returned 1t to him at his
request. While on her way to court
today, however, she said she had de-
posted all the money that Runyan
gave her in a bank, and that 1t would
stay there If she could keep 1t there.
She declared that she could nave OBJ
tainsd possession. of all the money Run
yam had If she had tried hard enough.
Concerning her betrayal of Runyan's
hiding place, she said that she had
felt sorry for Mrs. Runyan de-
bated with herself whether to notify
Mrs. Runyan of her husbands where
abouts or to give hin up to the po-
lice. She adopted the latter plan, she
declared, because she learned that Mrs.
Runyan was i'll.
Although she said she had no hope
of securing the reward for Runyan she
remarked that she could make use OF
the $1,000 offered. AS she, like Runyan,
is under a charge of grand larceny,
and the police have yet to recover
about $25, 900 which Runyan declares
she has hidden, there is little chance
of her securing the reward.
On arriving downtown today Runyan
and Mrs. Carter were taken first to
police headquarters. where photographs
of them were made for the use of the
police department, and they were meas
ured and questioned for the police
record. Neither made any objection
and Mrs. Carter went through the pro-
cess smilingly, while Runyan was bag
gard and careworn.
They were then taken to the Tombs
Police Court to be arraigned.