New-York tribune., 1910-07-22
PAYING TELLER, NEWLY
PROMOTED, VAN|SHES
c,osnwich Banks Vaults Short
s35.o00. and Directors Go Into
Packets for $4,000.
wIrE I'M GRAVE DISTRESS
nscials Kept Facts from Police
and Publicity Partly TO Spare
Young Woman Whose
Husband Is Missing.


,lsce Of paying teller in the Herald
ARE branch Of the Greenwich Bank
liter Hall. rventy-six years old. dis
-,se-sd from his home in South Brook
= where he lived wit his wife and
=, children. and took with him about
ss5eaa Of the banks funds. Hall has
=, missing since July 8. and the di-
-.,,o-s Of the bank had kept the matter
sAc-et until yesterday. hoping that
.,s,- Efforts TO find the young teller
--,,,5 be best rewarded in that way, as
r~he-lss z. Orvis. Of MorTistown. y. J.
-so.-n-esident Of the bank, explained last
night
Y- 0rv!s said that the police had not
80, told and that all publicity had beer
s--of5ed II The matter, moreover, because
"a directors wanted 70 spare the teller's
.-,,,,g wife. who is III at her home and
-ss-lv distracted over her husbands alb
sence.
Hau chose an opportune time to fur
-be- MS escape. as two days intervened
sgndav and Monday. July 5 and /, be
s,-e business was resumed and TIE
shortage discovered. When the bank
rpsned for business on Tuesday. July D
orfv Z few thousand dollars OF the $50
g0 which the paying teller is accus-
-onsd 70 handle each day at the branch
vas found IN the vaults. According &C
vt7e-Presideat Orvis, & meeting OF the
6rsctors vas called that day, and those
Yresenr divided the shortage between
thsn and personally paid the cash into
re hank
Directors Had to Pay $4,000.
The directors had 10 pay il al about
Ea5e0 said Mr.. Orvis- The remain
de- q TIE shortage was covered by the
sl0010 bond which the paying teller is
required 70 furnish. SO the bank lost
no-hing The sum taken was insignif-
czn- s-d could IN no way have affected
TIE stability of the bank with its large
cspiral and surplus. even If the directors
had no- made i up al the time. We are
making every effort TO find young Hall
and thought the quickest way 10 do il
was 70 keep the matter quiet"
IL 0ryis intimated that the directors
now had al idea where Hall CoUd be
found and that he might soon be ap-
1rehended. Il Is understood that private
detectives have been working on the case
for some time From al Indications. the
missing teller must have cooIly gathered
II most OF the cash left in his cage
Ritter The DAYS business and walked out
Of The bank with i instead Of putting
i 7 -he vaults. as he was expected 70
Go. He did not return 10 his home on
JAY 3. and his wife has not heard from
tim since.
NJ Orvis said last night that young
Eau had been made paying teller less
tas1 & month before he disappeared. He
had been 2 bookkeePer IN the William
street branch OF the bank for two years
before that. The bookkeepers in the
banks have no opportunity TO handle
money but Hall had proved his efficiency
e1d r-usrworthiness 10 the satisfaction
q the bank officials. and they decided 10
pg- him II 4 place Of greater response
b!liry
William c Duncan. president Of the
bank. vas inclined TO belittle the whole
marrsr and declined TO say just how
much money the absconding teller took
with him
gnificant," Says President
The amount taken was an insignif-
cant ore, and has been made UP by the
directors ne said. We did not even
cal II the police about the matter, and
! believe that Hall was simply touched
by The heat and VIII turn up sooner or
later We have had all the hospitals
watched. as We believe that is where he
vii eventually be found"
NJ. Duncan also said that Mrs. Hall
Vas IN = serious condition. owing 70 the
anxiety over her husbands disappear
ancs, and that ne and the directors were
dong everything in their power TO help
her
Tne Greenwich Bank is q state bank,
Eith its main Office al No. 4O2 West
Houston street. Its branches are at No
l53 William street. No. 260 West Broad
way, No. $40 Sixth avenue, No SI4
Broadway and No. 1881 Broadway The
bank has q capital Of SJo0.0oe, surplus
O. S75s .G00 and deposits Of S1o,o54.oSo-
The officers. besides the president and
71ce-president. are Clarence Foote, cash
ier; Frank Hammond. Harry A Gold
i1g, Walter 3 Austin, assistant cashiers.
sad William 4 Hawes, auditor.
Among the directors are Charles IL
schWab. Lee Shubert, Charles Herbert
Smith, Alexander Walker. Henry Helde,
William A Eawes, William &. Duncan
and Charles Z. Orvis-
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