The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-07-11
MISSING TELLER
HAS SPENT s4l.S07
Runyan Captured With $544lo Left
In Suitcase.
BETRAYED BY WOMAN FRIEND.
Whereabouts Revealed to Police by
Woman is Whose Company Fugitive
Had Been Since Saturday Female
Companion Identified Man Through
Pictures in Newspapers.

New York Especially - Betrayed
by woman of the Tenderloin, on
whom he had lavished money, to
whom he had promised thousands of
dollars, and who knew him only as
George" Chester B. Runyan, the
defaulting teller of the Windsor
Trust Company, who is charged with
stealing S96, 200, was arrested at a
pistols point. He was caught in a
three-rocm nat at 619 West One
Hundred and Forty-fourth Street,
which he had rented for the woman.
whose acquaintance he had made
less than three weeks ago, and for
whom, apparently he had no affec-
ton. Many features of the remark
able case suggest the old theory of
two identities.
Mrs. Laura NJ Carter reported at
the One Hundred and Twenty-fifth
Street Station this afternoon that
Runyan was in her fiat Five detec-
tives at once accompanied Mrs. Car
ter to the house. She furnished them
with key to the apartment, and two
of the detectives entered the room,
while the others remained outside.
AS the detectives entered Runyan
was standing in front of a chiffonier.
He turned suddenly on the officers
with revolver In his hand. The
detectives rushed at him, telling him
to throw up his hands. He there
upon dropped the revolver and calm
ly submitted to being handcuffed,
saying "The Jig is up"
Since midnight last Saturday-11
hours after his sensational departure
from the trust company's ofice-he
had not been out of the house, nor
had he had his clothes off. His in
difference amazed the police. He had
not been drinking and, apparently
was in perfect health He made no
Inquiries concerning his wife. who,
completely prostrated over his dis
appearance, was kept In ignorance
of his arrest in the company of a
woman, for fear the shock would
have fatal effect.
Money to the amount of S54,410
was found in the suitcase which Run
yam carried when he left the bank
and which since that time, filled with
yellowbacks, had been knocking
about the Harlem fiat There is miss
ing 5000, and the police say they
believe the woman has the sum hid
den. She denies she has q cent and
declares she does not even want the
reward of about s7,000-S2,O0O in
lump sum and 10 per cent. of the
sum recovered-to which she is en-
titled, whether she is held as an ac-
complice or not.
She gave Runyan up, she asserted,
1.na -. 4.
her. That he threatened to do, she
declared, when she suspected for the
first time, Thursday. that he was the
absconding teller whom the police
of the entire country we're seeking.
Runyan's story differs materially
from hers. He declares he gave her
$4,000 last Sunday, handed her $1O,-
600 in yellowbacks Friday morning
after she had threatened to surrend-
er him to the police unless he did
so, and asserts that she helped her.
self to $4,000 more Just before
she went out to summon the police
With so much actual cash in his
possession Runyan had apparently
lost all idea OF the value of money
He bought 5000 worth of jewelry
last Saturday for the woman, gave
her money with which to buy a
piano, gave her several lump sums
OF 500 and handled the huge stacks
of green and yellow backs Just as
If they were SO much paper He
had no plan In mind. He did not
have any idea of going away for his
health. He said he lost $4,000 in
speculation and that he took the
remaining $4,000 Just because he
wanted 1t.