The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-07
JAIL BANK THIEF and WOMAN
THEIR BiIL SeJ,OOO, ABOUT THE
AMOUNT or CASH MISSING.


Chester B.. Runyan. the paying teller
who stole 500. 900 from the Windsor Trust
Company and was caught with $5l, 900 in
his possession, spent yesterday in the
Ton,hs. having been held in SIS. 900. Laura
Carter. the woman with whom he had
been living since he stole the money and who
betrayed him to the police, was held in
$4,000 bail. The negress. Mary Duncan,
the servant in the fiat Runyan fitted up
at slg West liith street. was held in $500
bail.
The energies of the police and the trust
company were directed toward finding
of what became Of about s25, 600 of the
sss. 90. Rlsnyan admits that he squandered
about sle,O 900 in stock speculation and says
he gave the woman SIS. 900. He accuses
her of having taken, without his consent,
about $4,000 more, although he says that
be spent a few thousand on her and in
furnishing the fiat. She denies that she
has any Of the money. She says that
Runyan gave her 5000, but that she gave
II back 10 him.
The trust company officials think they
NAV md some Of the money in a vault at
the Liberty Storage and Warehouse in
West Sixty-fourth street. As soon az
hl0NHn dlI nv VIilh WtIt HTTftTe0
Jordan J. Rollins, counsel for the COM
panv. sent around to the storage COM
panies that have vaults to find out IL any
OF them had an account with the woman.
They learned from the Liberty COMPANY
that she had a vault there under the name
OF Laura Bayne. That is one of the many
names che went under in the Tenderloin.
She had the vault some time before she
met Rnnyan m June IL, before he stole
the money. II was late in the day when
the Windsor Trust officials learned OF the
vault. A Supreme Court order will have
to he granted before the vault ia entered
and Mr.. Rollins will make application for
one on Monday.
Central Office detectives spent yesterday
trying 70 find two men Of the Tenderloin
who were associates Of the woman. The
detectives believe that il they can get the
night man they will find the missing money
Laura Carter is a gross looking woman Of
middle age. For years she has walked the
streets Of the Tenderloin. A few of the
names she has been known under, in ad-
dition 20 Laura Carter and laura Bayne,
are Kate Bayne, Laura Woods. Laura Isen
and Maggie Carter, She was living in
West Sixty-eighth street when Runyan
met her in the street one night about two
weeks before he departed with $50, 900 in
cash.
Up 10 that time. according to the books
n the Windsor Trust Company, Runyan
had been specializing in stocks and losing
Within a few days after meeting the Carter
woman he had lost So 900 of the company's
money. He had practically left his wife
that is. he didn't go home as often as had
been his habit, and spent most Of his time
az the Carter fiat in Sixty-eighth street.
Before that the woman had been seen with
a man whom she described. when arrested,
as the old gazabo who pays the bills"
The detectives tried to get his name yes
terday, but she wouldn't give il up.
Runyan il a slim, sallow young man. with
a rtreating chin n a receding forehead.
He says that when he decided 10 walk on
with the cash the woman had promised to
hide him. That was the reason he got the fiat
in West l4ith street. Saturday would he a
good day 70 take the money, and just a week
sgoyesterday he jammedal the bills he could
put his hands on into a suit case. picked up
a number of thousand dollar bills which
were around loose, stuffed them in the
pockets Of his trousers and coat and walked
VA ~ "uSohly q bAlO Wolh ONtl w DIObu-
way, where he took a subway train to the
Grand Central. There he got of and
checked the suit case with the money. He
went out and had a drink or two and then
decided that il would be safer to have the
suit case checked at a hotel. which he did.
With the loose thousand dollar bills he
bought jewelry and other presents for the
woman. Then he had more drinks. He
must have had a lot, he says. for he doesn't
remember much of what happened except
that he had sense enough 10 get the suit case
with the cash and take it to the Hath street
fat, II was some time Sunday morning
when he landed there.
Laura Carter, as she il now officially
registered both in the rogues' gallery and
the Tombs, says that he came home Sunday
morning, and it was the first time she had
seen him in a couple of days. He had been
telling her about the money he had, she says.
and she was not surprised when he told her
be would enable her to live in style.
Some time on Sunday he counted over
Tor her the money he had stolen She says
she was surprised 10 see so much. She
insists that she didn't know him by any
other name than George" but the de-
tectives do not put much faith in that.
At any rate she knew he had the money
and for almost a week the bulk of il remained
in the suit ease in the room Runyan slept
In. Runyan didn't leave the room much
and when he did he didn't go far away,
he had SHAVED of his feeble mustache,
The police wondered yesterday how a
man could live in a room for a week with
On much money and in such company and
not have been sandbagged or chloroformed.
and there was regret in the social circles
be had joined when they heard of what
they had missed. II Laura Carter took
oracoepted s25, 900 Of the money they wanted
N know why she didn't take il all. She
knew lots of ways of getting it. they said.
Kunyan believes she took $4,000 the morn
ing She went ont and told the police where
to get him. This is her explanation OF
why she went to the police:
I'm not bad. Yes, I've been arrested
a few times, but for nothin' wrong. I've
never been arrested like this before. It's
q shame, An after me tellin' the police.
why, ] was sorry for that guys wife. He's
the easiest sucker | ever expect to see.
lie saws took Sih 600 I'll neyer sneak