The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-05-07
Government Officials Take Up the
Case of Bank Clerk Who ABS.
conded From KenoSha
NO TRACE OF MISSING MAN
Bank Officials Are Summoned to Appear
Before the Federal Grand
Jury and Give Evidence
For His Indictment

Harvey T. Wells, the missing book
keeper of the First National Bank, who
disappeared last October taking with
him funds of the bank to the amount OF
several thousand dollars, will probably
be indicted for embezzlement and viola.
ton of the banking laws by the grand
jury in the United States Court as
Deputy United States Marshall G. E.
Reinardy has served summonses on W.
H. Purnell A. w Frantz and James
w. Blair, all employees of the bank de-
handing that they appear before the
Federal Grand Jury in Milwaukee a
week from Wednesday and give the
facts in regard to the populations Of
Wells. 1t is not known who made the
complaint before the United States
Grand jury, but it is certain that the
officials Of the Federal Court are plan
ming to take up the hunt for Wells and
make an effort to bring him to trial in
the United States Court
The officials of the bank when seem
admitted that they had been notified to
appear as witnesses before the grand
jury in the Wells case, but they stated
that they had not as yet got any trace
Of the missing bookkeeper. Since Wells
left the bank the officials of the Keno
sha institution have been making every
effort to locate him, but thus far they
admit that he has been able to COM
/ pletely hide himself from the detectives
Many clues have been followed, but not
one Of them has yielded a lead Wells
has been reported to be in Oklahoma,
Iowa, New York, Hot Springs and in
half a dozen other places, but when the
/ detectives reached these places it was
found th; t he had never been there.
| The young man seems to have complete
| ly dropped out of sight and as he was
pretty well supplied with money when
he left Kenosha six months ago it is
| thought possible that he has managed
to get out Of the country. Speaking
for the bank, Vice president Charles G.
Brown said: ''There is no doubt but
that Wells will be captured It may
take lot of time to get him, but soon
er or later we viii land him and bring
him back to face the charges against
him. Just at the present time we can
give out nothing in regard to his where
abouts and we do not know what will
be done by the United States grand
jury, but we do know that sooner or
later he will be taken. -
At the time of his disappearance one
Of the women on the 'Fstreet" in Chi
cago disappeared and she has never re-
turned to her old haunts and as she was
known to be very friendly with Wells
lit is generally supposed that the two
went away together. The populations
of Wells according to the story given
out by the bank officials amounted to
$4,000. It is claimed that the friends
of Wells in Kenosha have been aiding
the bank officials in every possible man
ner, but that they have heard absolutely
nothing from the missing bookkeeper
since he disappeared from the city The
| mails have been closely watched, but it
is not thought that Wells has ever COM
municated with any one in Kenosha.
He is evidently aware of the hunt that
/ is being made for him and forewarned
he is taking every possible precaution
to prevent his being located by the de-
tectives.