The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-07-26
RUNYON IS GUILTY
AND AWAITS HIS
SENTENCE
Windsor Trust Teller Owns to
Theft Of $4,000
DELllAH HELD BY POLICE
Reason Given by Mrs Laura M. Car.
ter For Betrayal OF Defaulter
Was Unique.
DELILAH HELD BY POLICE

NEW YORK. July Chichester II.
Runyan. the paying teller of the Wind.
sor Trust company. who absconded
with over $4,000 ~ that institutions
funds. pleaded guilty before Judge
Whitman In the court ~ general SEES
siuns Ia grand larceny In the FIRST de
gree
The extreme penalty for this oicnse
Is ten years In state prison.
Tho complainant In the case was
Henry Ward Ford vice president Of
the wirnsor Trust company. Runyan
was charged specifically with the theft
n SS44Oi. This charge Runyan ad
mltted In his plea.
Ruuynn was represented by william
CuutWvll. who asked Judge whitman
to remand the prisoner hack 10 the
romhs without hIing date for sen
trncr Tor a week or On. fle said that
the prisoner wanted % settle up some
affairs before beginning his term in
prison.
Laura NJ Carter. the woman IN
whose apartment Runyan was ar
rested after she had betrayed him a.
the police and who was arrested by
the police upon suspicion that she had
recrly"d part ~ the $4,000 which
Iuuyun stole. was taken before Jus
tlre Dayton n the supreme court by
q Keeper from the Tombs prison.
SD. was before tho court IN oledl.
encc o. a writ Of haheas corpus sued
out by her counsel Goldfoele. Cohu 4
Lind. In her petition for the issuance
n M. writ tho Carter woman sei
forth that she was arrested on July y
and had l,rcn kept IA the Tomts prl-
on ever since without auy warrant NJ
"rier % a court ~ competent jurisdic
tlnn.
She said that her detention was
without authority = law aud that she
sas unable n furnish $1,000 bail re-
luired hy ne district attorney.
The carter woman wore q black STA
Jacket the wide lspels u witch were
trimmed with sllk Of black sud white
bars. She wore large black straw
hat decorated with long black plumcs
that nearly touched her shoulders aud
n lishi brown coiorrd cloth skirt. She
has dark hair nud small dark eyes.
While waiting Tor her cnse 60 b.
called Congressman Goldfoglc. counsel
Tor the woman. said that her treat
mrni by The police was an outrage. lie
sail that they searched her DAT with
ont q warrant that they broke NJ her
furniture without ans authority ~ law
aud that they violated her constitu.
iluuHl rights in various other ways.
lie made statement that affords one
explanation for her action In bctray
lne Hlnl nn a. the police.
SUPPOSE" said the congressman.
that ltuuynu had shot himself IN the
flai Hnd u must D. remembered that
llunyan had pistol and she was
found there with his dead body and
the mouey or hnd ncd after his suicide.
What would have ic,n the cry Of the
police thouf
"Muricr' murderl" he said. answer
{ Us 50" WHHa HNNAHH NNfHAAH AiANA - VIM
the police would have said aud she
would have had great trouble In 90
tablishing her lnnocrnce. Perhaps abe
could not have done that Her posi-.
ton was n dinicult ono. and she has
iecn 1utragouusly treated. n has been
said that Runyan furnished the fat
for her. That Il not 90 She bought
al the furniture which the police
smashed ~ searching Tor the money"
The affidavit on which she II held
IL sufficient" said Mr. Mayper for the
state. and the fact that she deposited
5000 In the Garfield Safe Deposit
company under the fictitious name ~
Laura bwycr l. evidence Of guilty
knowledge on her part"
Justice Dayton said be- thought that
the nfiidn,ii against the woman was
sufficient 10 hold her