The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-06
Bank Teller Who Walked Off
with 500, 900 Last Week.
Betrayed by a Woman in Whose
Flat He Was Living.
DID NOT LEAVE TOWN.
A Large Amount of the Stolen
Cash Is Recovered.
Says He Took the Money Because
He Needed It.

New York. July 6.-Chester B. Run
yam, the paying teller of the Windsor
Trust company. who is alleged to have
| stolen $96,317 from that company, and
Mrs. Laura Carter, the woman who
| betrayed his hiding place to the police,
| after he had given her a part Of the
stolen funds, were arraigned in police
court today. Runyan's spirit appeared
| to be broken by the disastrous out
! come of his stealing and his demeanor
was hapless.
| He passed a sleepless night in the
| police station and he showed the eff
fects of his worry when he was sub
! Jected to the gaze of a curious crowd
on his way to police headquarters.
Mrs. Carter bore her arrest with
nonchalance. She slept unconcernedly
in the matron's quarters at the police
| station and undertook the journey
down town undismayed by the predic-
ament into which her escapade with
| Runyan had thrown her. She shielded
| her face from the photographers in
| the way as best she could but chatted
with the reporters in lively fashion
while in the subway train. Runyan,
! however, had little to say to anybody
and appeared to be terribly distressed.
| What had become of $4,000 of the
company's stolen funds was still
mystery so far as the public was con-
| cerned up to the time that the two
| prisoners were taken to the court
Runyan had in his possession when
said he lost about $4,000 in specula-
! ton in stocks before he disappeared
from the office of the Windsor Trust
company last Monday. that he had
given SIS, 900 to Mrs. Carter and that
| he believed she had taken $4,000
more without his knowledge.
Might Have Had All.
| Mrs. Carter at first stoutly denied
that she had any of the trust COM
pany's funds, admitting that Run
! yam gave her $4,000 but asserting that
| she promptly returned it to him at
his request When on her way to
| court today, however, she said that
she had deposited all the money that
! Runyan had given her in a bank and
| that 1t would stay there if she could
keep it there. She declared that she
/ could have obtained possession of all
| the money Runyan had if she had
| tried hard enough.
/ Concerning her betrayal of Runyan's
| hiding place she said that she had
| felt sorry for Mrs. Runyan and de-
bated with herself whether to notify
Mrs. Runyan of her husbands where
aboutS or to give him up to the police.
She adopted the latter plan, she de-
clared, because she learned that Mrs.
Runyan was Ill. Although she said
| she had no hope of securing the re-
ward for Runyan, she remarked that
| fered. As she is under the charge of
receiving stolen property and the po-
| lice have yet to recover about
| $25. 900 which Runyan declares she
has hidden there is little chance for
her to seucre the reward.
| On arriving down town today Run
van and Mrs. Carter were taken first
to police headquarters where photo
graphs of them were made for the
use of the police department and they
were measured and questioned for the
police records. Neither of them made
any objection and Mrs. Carter went
through the process smilingly, while
Runyan was haggard and careworn.
They were then taken to the TombS
police court to be arraigned.
Runyan was arraigned on a charge
of grand larceny in having stolen
$4,000. Mrs. Carter was charged with
ed examination and were held for the
grand jury, Runyan in $4,000 and
Mrs. Carter in $4,000 bail. Neither
were able to give bail and were taken
to prison.
just before she was arraigned in
court, Mrs. Carter denied that she had
placed any of the trust company's
money in the bank to her own account
and declared she did last night, that
she received only $4,000 from Runyan
and that she promptly returned IT
when he demanded it.
Story of the Capture
New York. July 6.-Chester B. Run
yam, the absconding teller of the
Windsor Trust company, has been ar
rested in New York and s54,410 of the
money stolen from the bank was re-
covered.
Runyan was found in the apartment
of Mrs. Laura NJ. Carter of 619 West
144th street. where he had been since
he walked out of the bank last Satur-
day with all the money in the teller
vault packed in his suit case.
Mrs. Carter reported to the police
that Runyan was in her fat. Five de-
tectives at once accompanied Mrs.
Carter to the house. She furnished
them with a 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.
with a revolver in his hand. The de-
tectives rushed him. telling him to
throw up his hands. He thereupon
dropped the revolver and calmly sub
mitted to being handcuffed, saying:
THE jig is up
When asked where the money was,
he said that part of it was in the suit
case and the rest was in drawer OF
the chiffonier.
When the detectives had finished
ransacking the fiat Runyan was taken
to the police station. Mrs. Carter and
her negro maid, Mary Duncan, were
also placed under arrest.
At the station Runyan was placed
the fiat since Saturday laughing at
the efforts The police were making to
locate him. He said he shaved off his
moustache and was letting his beard
grow as a disguise.
Had Been Specializing.
When questioned about the where
abouts of the remainder Of the money