The Charles Mix new era. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1???-1911, 1908-09-25
IKE SUSPECTED CRIMINALS
2ittahurg Bank Clerks Must Be Pho
tegraphed and Measured.

Urem9ats Of the Bertilion system. IniS
radis1l Aloye CA the part Of the bank
crs il Il sequel 10 the inost amazing
seri,a ~ balIa lo0tin.s that mankind
LAS ctrr known Within the last three
yeat 1t Is estimated that something
Alike 10000 has been stolen by dis
hone .auk employees in that city.
Tin Gsnas have concluded that the
besi coarse before thcm-whiie not
Nisa .u- to cas-. suspicion upon anyone
is a. photograph every one of their
-cmlteyr> and take their measurements
by the i!crtillon system, SO that, when
a next ,%!cfalcation may occur, the po-
lice authorities all over the world VIII
hay. the last embezzicr marked down
as Miaafcly az though hc were lie
most elusive Max Shinburn who ever
.nlternutca between safe-cracking and
jail service.
Ii there was one bank officer who
would have surrendered his complete
control q millions rather than submit
to being "mugged" by the police. 4 was
William Montgomery, cashier OF the
AiEFaAtte4y ANAAAfiitR1s aAA%N
connection with the disappearance OF
Ss3o.tD u deposits and the entire
S50c.ttN worth Of capital stock. lie
was the intimate friend and corfidant
of senator QBay. the man who placed
~Quay's bets during the Harrison cam
<paign. when Quay won $4,000, ana
the trusted handler Of the moneys OF
the political machine In that section
Of the state.
When the Allegheny National went
down-or up-thc State was backing IT
with $4,000 of deposits and the city
of Pittsburg with $1,532,0oo. Private
deno~itors were SO wary that they let
it have little. When the crash came,
after a series of sIeeuiations in stocks,
the police reported the discovery Of No
photograph OF Montgomery. even dur
ing their investigations OF the suddenly
acquired fortune of a Pittsburg widow
whose wealth leaped in eight years
from $4,000 to S333,ooo. and OF other
women in Pittsburg and neighborlns
cities. whose real estate investments
had increased with remarkable facility.
While the fate of the Allegheny Ma
ttonals money still hung IN the bal
ancp. pending the decision of Mont
>gomerv's allies as to restitution OF the
million that had gone, a man returned
to rittsburg who for nearly three
years had left the police bitterly re-
gretful that the Bertillon system was
not compulsory there before the In
ferpriSe National Of Allegheny col
lapScG Ira October. 1908, lie was Thorn
as w. Harvey. teller of the Enterprise,
who. IN tile vain hope of escaping tire
penalty for his share in the crime bad
given mp his Identity and his home, Is
wander amid aEonies OF dread uitiI
his fearful spirit could no longer bear
the strain. He surrendered himself
to the Federal authorities, and on th'
same day was sentenced to seven years
in the penitentiary-and h n with ne
more ~Rotoriety than if he were n purse
snatcher. Pittsburg was learning t
wash it's dirty linen with neatness, ST
fence and dispatch. Yet the Enterprise
-emhpzZlcments were among the mos
tStll~tttIt'tidi tNti hipaI IL AhN 1N''N y
PENNSYLVANIA. The losses amounted t
$1,5oo,o0o. 1t was a political" bank
like the Allegheny National. and hun
,dreds Of thousands of its deposits ha'
gone out to politicians on notes which
unsecured at best, had disappeare'
when the cashier. II. Lee Clark, bot
poisoned and shot himself. to make sur
of death.
Speculation, women and gamblln
was Tx way the stolen millions wen
When the Union Trust Company q
Pittshurg discovered its loss of $3.50
900 I'm 1906. almost on the anniversar
of the Enterprise run. the thieve
proved to be a couple Of mild youn
persons, Clinton T.. Wray, the tellel
and g. S. Hixton. the individual hool
keeper. The gambling crooks tool
off these two marks in large chunk
Both received ten years apiece whe
their iefalcations were discovered.
While the gamblers were enjoying ii
Union Trust Company's cash, II
bucket shops were getting during Il
year between March. 1907. and Mare
of this year $4,000 taken from ii
Farmers Deposit National Bank
Henry Reiber, the paying teller, al
John Young, the auditor. They prove
themselves fools as simple over viii
cat curb adventures as the boys OF II
Union Trust did over crooked card
For ron years those two presumab
experienced financiers had been stes
Ing 81 .l05,Oo0 from the Farmers II
posi- Bank. and no one, among either c
ficers ar directors. had suspected thei
They. too. have been sentenced to Il
years each.
rlftshurg's example has given Il
state of Pennsylvania n record tn
puts the dasbIn- depredations OF hal
robbers In the Southwest, with the
mass aud their revolyers. TO the blu
of poignant shame.
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