Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-03
TELLER AND CASH
NOW ARE VANISHED
Windsor Trust Company Loses
S96,317 in Currency.
CHESTER RUNYAN MISSING
Thought He Packed Money in Dress
Suit Case.
HE NEEDED A CHANGE OF AIR
Had. Always Led Model Life and
Had a Fine Reputation
at the Bank.
CHESTER RUNYAN MISSING
HE NEEDED A CHANGE OF AIR

Chester Runyan, the trusted pay
ing teller of the Windsor Trust Com
pany of New York, has disappeared,
and with him $06,3I7 OF the banks
funds. There is no sign in his ac-
counts that he ever before touched
a cent of the company's money, but
the doctor told him some time ago
that he needed change of air, and
the officials think he has taken it,
with funds enough to keep him from
want while out of work.
NEW YORK, July 3.-Detectives through
out the United States searching today
for Chester b. Runyan, paying teller OF
the Windsor Trust Company, who, the d.
rectors apege, is missing with s96317 ir
cash. The case is being handled by private
detectives George w. Young, a director
Of the trust company confirms the re-
ports of the defalcation, which. the de-
tectives say, is one of the most remarkable
ever reported.
Runyan Is accused of having placed
s96,317 in currency in suit case last Sat
urday, and, after shaking hands with his
associates in the bank, left the trust COM
pany. Since then he has not been seen.
Runyan. 1t is said, did not even go to his
apartment to bid goodbye to his wife, to
whom he had been married for five years.
Runyan is said to have taken all the cash
available in the pank last Saturday. The
directors, it is stated. have made up all
the loss of the defalcation.
Runyan was a man of exemplary habits
far Is known uyoS
such as not to arouse any suspicion. When
the auditors went over his accounts on May
! they were found to be all right.
Statement of Windsor President.
John A. Young, president of the Windsor
Trust Company, said today that Runyan 10
a member of prominent family of Roch-
ester, N. Y, and came to the Windsor
Trust Company in 1905, highly recon-
mended
President Young said also that the direct
ors of the Windsor Trust Company made
good the defalcation and were about to Of
fer a reward of $500 for the arrest of
Runyan. He also called upon the New
York city police department to aid in the
search for the missing paying teller. 49,
The whole affair is a remarkable one."
said MIR. Young. "Runyan had been with US
three years and his whole life was such an
open book that he was the last man in our
employ whom we would have suspected.
He was trusted implicitly. We are salts
fled from our examination of the cash re-
serve and the books that he had not taken
a cent from before last Saturday. There
had been no series of small POPULATIONS as
often occurs, eliminating in a greater
robbery when detection seems imminent.
On the contrary, we are convinced that
Runyan was overcome by a sudden tempta-
ton for which, in view of his character,
there seems to be no accounting.
Wife Is Helping.
Mrs. Runyan is giving every help in
our effort to locate her husband 1t is the
belief of the detectives that he probably
will try to reach some other country, and
while the local authorities and the police
have been asked to watch for him, we are
taking particular pains to have vessels
watched at the principal foreign ports.''
1t was learned today that Runyan had
been fearful for long time that he would
die of consumption unless was able to
move to a more favorable climate. Some
of his relatives and friends declared today
that if he had taken any of the banks
funds it was in order to seek a milder CHI
mate and to forestail the disease which
he had been warned against. Neighbors
said today that Runyan told them on sew
eral occasions that as soon as lie felt able
he intended to go the country for a long
rest.