The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-04-23
HELD IN S2O,0OD BAIL
 FOR TRIAL IN NEW YORK
FEY BRITAIN BANK OFFICIAL APPEARS AGAINST c. F.
 GONDOLE

Charged With Having in His Possess
 sion s5,OOO Worth of Missing Bonds
 Knowing They Were stOlen-Bank
 Commissioner Noble Testifes at
 Hearing--Aeeused Refuses to An
 swer All Questions-Returned to
 Prison in Default of Bail.
 New York, April Charles F. Con- dolf, who was arrested last week in connection with the search for the miss ing bonds believed to have been taken by William F. walker, the fugitive treasurer of the Savings Bank of New Britain, Conn, was held in $20,000 bail for trial to-day in the Jefferson Market court.
 Goldolf was arrested last Thursday and held in $2O,OOO bail for examina- tion to-day. An effort was made by his lawyer to get him out on bail, but the district attorney objected to the secur- ities offered.
 When brought before magistrate to- day Gondolf was confronted with complaint signed by Charles B. Older shaw, secretary of the New Britain bank, charging him with having in his possession stolen bonds to the amount of SS5,OOo, knowing them to have been stolen. The only witnesses examined were MT. Oldershaw and Charles H, Noble. bank commissioner of Connecticut, who made an exam ination of the New Bri,aln bank on August 1, 1906, and again in the early part of March, 19O7
 MT. Oldershaw said he had made a statement of the bonds held by the bank on August i, 1906, but had not seen the bonds mentioned in the com plaint since June 1, of that year, when the coupons were payable. He was not sure that they were in the bank vaults after June 1, but knew they were gone on February 12, 1907, when the disap- pearance of the bonds was noted, three days after Walker disappeared.
 Bank Examiner Noble testified to having gone over the securities of the bank on August 1, 1906, but took no memorandum of the numbers of the Bonds so they could be identified by him. He said he took the list made out ,sy the bank and simply checked it off, making a personal examination of each security to see that it was really on hand. He did not take down the num- bers but said there were bonds of the Chicago, St. Paul and Omaha 6 per cents in the bank at the time He was not prepared to say that the bonds re- ported missing were the same ones he checked off.
 At the conclusion of Nobles testimo- ny Gondolf was held in $2O,OOO ball for trial.
 In making out the formal complaint Gondolf refused to answer all questions. He was returned to the prison in de- fault cf bail
 MT. Oldershaw in his testimony said that the bonds in the New Britain bank were in the custody of Walker They were kept in vault, and no one except Walker, he said, knew the combination so lar as n6 WdS eWdI6. I1G Setlu LuclS . was another copy of the combination in a sealed envelope in the possession of the president of the bank, but this had never been opened to his knowledge. Walker, he said. was responsible for all the securities in the possession of the bank.
 The bonds specified in the complaint were S5 out of 200 that were missing from the bank valuts. They represent ed a par value of $S50O0, but are said to have been worth more than that The complaint stated that these bonds had been negotiated by the New Amster- day bank for Gondolf on September 23, 1906, and officials of the New Amster- dam bank were in court to identify Gondolf as the who who brought them to the bank but were not called. as Gondolfs lawyers waived examination.
 HOT ON WALKERS TRAIL.