Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-03-02
LOSS PLACED
AT $4,000
Amount Said 10 Have Been
So.3n BY Coleman
LID 51a3-ST At BOSTON

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ton ofaarsnd Jury-Life Appears
to Have Seen d sang Fer DefauIter
and His Frisnds-Report That He
VIII Expose eambIers Who Cot
$4,000 From Him
Boston, Feb. 27.-George w. Cole
man, bookkeeper for the First Ma
tional bank in Cambridge, was arrest
ed in this city upon his arrival from
the west. He was taken in custody
by Inspector Nielan of the Cambmdge
police, who was in company with
United States Deputy Marshal Ban
croft and John J. Cronin, a lawyer.
First taken to police headquarters
in Cambridge, the bookkeeper later
was driven in aNcarriage to the feder-
al building in Boston, where he
was arranged before Commissioner
Hayes, and held on a charge Of max
ing false entries, involving not less
than S160 eco This was SIG, coo
more than the amount first announced
by National Bank Examiner Pepper.
He waived the reading of the COM
plant and the examination and was
held in $50 600 bonds to await thu ac-
ton of the federal grand jury, which
is now sitting.
After arraignment, Coleman was
taken back to the cage in the mar
oh a RI hn OIL n
cure bail None was forthcoming, so
the prisoner was taken to Charles
| street jail
Under the federal statutes, the Of
tense with which Coleman is charged
| is characterized as misdemeanor, and
the penalty is not less than five years
and not more than ten years impris
onment.
Coleman was searched by Bancroft.
| On his person was cash amounting to
! $33 Az, bunch of keys, card case,
| pocketbook and an automobile license.
These and his gold watch were taken
and placed in charge of the district
attorney. A karat and a half dia-
mond was worn by the prisoner, and
this he was allowed to retain.
Revelation follows revelation con-
4; corning the manner of life which
young Coleman led while bookkeeper
of the National City bank and to Judge
from what has come to light it is easy
to see how the 81 ga a week clerk
disposed Of the money that he is
charged with having taken
According to Lawson Lockhart there
were some' hilarious times in the
rooms of the National City bank after
hours. The doors were closed after
o'clock, following which it was
no unusual thing for friends of Cole
man to drop in, women calling oc-
casionally, as well as men. While
Coleman was working on his books
doctOring them as it seems now
there was boxing matches, singing
and drinks for those who cared to in
dulge from the bottle of whiskey
which Coleman had on hand.
One of the heaviest individual losses
sustained by Coleman was in the Bos-
ton mayoral election. Firm in the be-
lief that Storrow would be elected
Coleman snapped up bets right and
left, with the result that when Fitz-
gerald was elected the young book
keeper was about SO 900 out of pock-
ct. For another thing. Coleman dab
bled, extensively in stocks.
Around town, Coleman seems to
have been prince of good fellows.
For some time he had a suite of rooms
in the Hotel LenoX, besides which he
provided rooms for friends. He gave
stag parties, in which nothing less
than champagne was, worthy the
thirst of his followers, and 5O-cent
cigars topped off.
Promises to expose a gigantic faro
bank swindling game, by which
prominent men have been feeced, are
made. 1t is said that Coleman will
tell of the faro bank that got the
money, as well as countless thousands
from other bank employees in the vicin-
ity of Boston.
Coleman, already desperate, it is
said, because of his great shortage
was an easy victim, and it is believed
that $40, 900 of the banks money
dropped into the faro swindlers
hands after they had gained his conf
dence and made him believe he could
double his money in an hours play
AS in the case of every victim, he was
taken to New York and lost his money
under the belief that he was in con
spiracy to cheat through the treachery
of trusted faro bank dealer.
Cambridge, Mass. Feb. %. ELI:
s. Pepper, the national bank exam.
liner who went over the accounts O.
George w. Coleman, bookkeeper O.
the National City bank of Cambridge
last December, and failed to detec
the shortage, was suspended by Con.
troller of the Currency Murray, who