Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1907-07-11
PHYSICIANS SAY HE
IS SUFFERING
SLIGHTLY
He Is Afflicted With InCipient
tuberculosis and Needed
the Money For
Treatment.
GAMBLED BANKS
FUNDS IN TRADE
When He Lost $1,000. He Loaded
His Suit Case With $4,000
More and Hunted UP His
PdramOur Who Be-
trayed Him.

New York, July 11.-Chester b,
Runyan, paying teller of the Windsor
Trust company, who Is in jail here
charged with embezzling $4,000 of
the company's funds. is keeping up
pretense of insanity. Physicians
who have visited him in prison are
of the opinion that he may be suffer-
ing from the use of drugs, though
they doubt the insanity theory. The
defense will attempt to prove that
Runyan's family has strain of here
ditary insanity.
The Motive.
Chester b. Runyan was paying tell
er of the Windsor Trust company of
New York. His salary was small and
he was afflicted with incipient tuber-
culosis.
He had no money with which to
fight the disease and he longed to
save his life.
One day-it was June 9-he got a
tip on the stock market. The next
day he stole money enough from
the bank to play it. He lost,
after that, he stole more and more
and more, until he had taken $780,
600 of the banks money.
Every cent of this was lost.
Like many another weak man, he
took to strong drink to dull his con-
science and stupefy his brain SO that
he could forget.
The Crime.
But he could not forget. of course.
That was inevitable. The more he
thought, the more desperate he be-
came.
If l am going to be a thief" he
said to himself Il might as well be
a good one"
SO he determined upon a bold play.
He would steal enough so that he
could be Independent and fight his
way to liberty, if possible, if caught.
lie went about il coolly. Into a
suitcase he packed $4,000 of the
banks money, walked out the door
unSuspected and disappeared.
The Woman.
A night or two before that, while
in half drunken state, he met a
woman on the street.
Afraid to face his wife in his
shame, he sought the mpanionshlp
of this woman. He would furnish
her $50 a week he said, and she
jumped at the chance. They rented
a fiat together. She cared so little
about him that she never even in
quired his last name. She knew him
only as George"
Her name it is said, is Laura
Carter. Coarse she is. and unedu-
Gated.
She hired a negro housekeeper, and
Il was to her fiat that Runyan took
his suitcase full of stolen money.
The Wife.
In the meantime, what Of Mrs.
Runyan? She was sick in bed on
the day of his arrest.
When he went away on the fateful
morning OF his big steal he left her
with a $40 bill, and that was all the
money she had in the world.
She had learned from the news
papers that her husband was being
pursued by the police, and the
thought OF the disgrace, together with
the knowledge that q long term in
prison probably awaited him, so uu-
neryed her that she collapsed.
only once after his arrest did Run
yam display any emotion. That was
Wife.
The Finish.
Inousands Of dollars OF his stolen
wealth did Runyan lavish on Laura
carter Diamonds and rIngs-all
sorts Of jewelry-he placed at her
leet' lie gave her $4,000 in cash, he
says. She says It was $4,000.
One day she recognized his picture
m newspaper, and he confessed that |
he was guilty.
IF you and this housekeeper be-
ray me-" he declared, Il viii blow
yOur heads Off"
believing him to be dangerous.
Laura Carter slipped out of the
house and notified the police.
Now Chester b. Runyan is in fail |
With the life OF a convict staring him |
n the face. The woman who betray- |
"a him told the police that he was /
the easiest sucker l ever expect to |
zee" She Will claim the $4,000 re- 1
ward offered by the trust company
or his arrest. Runyan's wife saws
he knows he was insane and Is will