Putnam patriot., 1913-08-01
MONEY LEFT IN
 SAVINGS BANKS
Comptroller's Report Shows Sl5l ,0O0 Untouched For Years
MANY DE. OSlT0RS DEAD
Bills Introduced In the Legislature 10 Have Unclaimed Amounts Revert 10 State Have Fsiled-MaIority
 Stnaii Balances.
Special Hartford correspondence)

.tSpecial Hartford Correspondence) Hartford - Seyenty-one savings banks in this State have reported 10 tbe State Comptroller, since July 1. { 40 unclaimed deposits that aggra- gate s151,S874.s2 Every year the say ings banks report 10 the comptroller lists of these accounts that have been untouched for twenty years. They include accounts in the names of per sons who are known to be dead and people who are supposed 10 be living. but whose present address Is un- known.
 The money so reported remains In the banks. At almost every session of the Legislature in recent years. bills have been introduced, which. if enacted into law. would provide that this money should revert 10 the State Nc such law has ever been passed however
 The only result Of the reports made to the comptroller is, therefore. that through the newspaper reports Of the returns. considerable publicity Is
 
 accounts are claimed by their right ful owners.
 Small Amounts In Majority.
 The great majority of the accounts gre fgr small amounts, many hundreds being for less than q The range from few cents to several thousand dollars. three accounts being reported this year that amounted to about s5. Og0 each. There were several others that are well up in the thousands The average is about s3420.
 As would naturally be expected. banks in the cities report greater numbers of twenty-year accounts and the older banks have more of the un- claimed accounts on their books than the younger institutions Local con. ditions have considerable effect upon the totals, however. This Is especially noticeable in the case of the savings banks of New London and Norwich These institutions have always had a large number of deposits from sea faring people, whose wandering lives together with the hazards to which  conntable for the unusual number of unclaimed deposits in these banks. Thus the Savings Bank of New Lon don although three other banks in fhe State exceed 1t in total amount of deposits, nevertheless reports by far the greatest amount in unclaimed deposits, it's figures being s23 70419.
 One Deposit of s5,346.
 On account fin this bank, entered In the name of Austin NJ. Lester, totals s5.3466 69 and another in the name of Nicholas Burns now amounts to S4- 97750. The Norwich Savings Society Is in a somewhat similar position. re porting unclaimed deposits of sl4,- 47b0S the largest single account be- ing for s6,0140S.
 The Dime Savings Bank of Hart ford leads with the largest number of the twenty-year old accounts, for 1t reported l,616 Of them this year. As She great majority are for sums of less than s1 the total Is but $2.S26 20 The Society for Savings in this city al so had a large number of the old ac- counts, reporting sos of them Through the efforts Of the officials Of the banks to locate the owners of un- ciainIHd deposits. the number of them has increased by but eight since 1902. The largest account in the Society for Savings amounts to sl.126.2S and is .n the name Of George c, Kelley.
 Goes Into Bankruptcy.
 rirs New England Transportation Company of New Haven has filed a petition in bankruptcy in the United States District Court here showing liabilities of sl02. .464, and assets of s56.2SS The company has three steam tugs and seven barges which have been libelled
 Warrant for "A. No. i,'
 United States Marshall Hawlsy has an unusual warrant to serve. It Is for "A No. l." famous tramp who has been around the State lately inscrib- tng his name-A. No lon various buildings He was here and put his mark, in indelihle ink, on the new federal building
 Merlden Landmark Gone.
 Fire caused by a bolt Of lightning destroyed the old Julius Hall farm house at Meriden. The house was Ibuilt in ls4S and has long been one of the eity's landmarks The loss wa, about 5000.
 Killed by Auto Truck.
 Edward Bohne. 1l2 years old, who was run over by an automobile truck at New Haven. died At the New ha ven Hospital of his injuries. Bohns had been jumping on and on the truck while it was in motion, although warned by the driver, and finally fell under the wheels, one leg being brok ea and the lower part of his body crushed.
 For Selling Dirty MIX.
 On the charge of watering milk and of selling dirty milk. Herman Massow d farmer of East Meriden, was fined $50 and costs in the city court of Mert den. Theodore Lamothe retail milk dealer of that city, was fined SPAS and costs on a similar charge.
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