The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-09-10
DOLLY WILCOX FREE
ON BOND FOR $1,000
Man, Accused of EmbezzIement,
to Get Preliminary Hearing
September IL.

A. D. Dolly" Wilcox, former cashier
of the City Bank of Bloomfield, yes
terday gave bond for $500 to appear
before Judge w. H. WilIer on Septem-
Der II for preliminary trial on three
charges of embezzlement made in
warrants sworn to by Frank Bran
mock, bOokkeeper at the bank.
AS announced exclusively in The
Tribune last Saturday, the warrants
were issued by Judge Willer when
Prosecuting Attorney j. Henry Caru-
theirs filed Brannock's affidavits set
ting forth that Wilcox had on three
distinct times converted the banks
moneys to his own use in the fall of
1912, by cashing checks for $1,000,
$500 and $45715 at the First National
Bank in the Cape.
The warrants were placed in the
hands of Constable ScivalIy for serv-
ice upon Wilcox. Monday Scivally went
to Bloomfield, where Wilcox resides,
and served the warrants and made ar
engagements to bring him before Judge
Willer.
Wilcox was accompanied to the Cape
yesterday morning by Carl Weber, and
Lucas Ashley, both brothers-in-law,
George A. Grain, Oscar McNiel, w. F.
Tucker, close friends, as well as n. A.
Motley, his attorney.
All of his companions except Motley
qualified as bOndsmen before Judge
Willer and signed WilcOx's three
bonds. The bond on the $1,000 count
was made $500 and on the other two
counts, $500 each.
Motley in asking for bond, simply
asked Judge Willer to grant time to
prepare for the preliminary trial.
Prosecuting Attorney Caruthers was
unable to be in the city at the time on
account of work at Jackson, so that it
was impossible to hold the preliminary
yesterday.
Motley told Willer that he might be
called upon to make a postpOnement
from September II on account of other
matters pending in Bloomfield.
Wilcox was prosecuted on the three
counts on which the present action is
based, some time ago in Stoddard
County when the Supreme Court re-
versed two of the actions and remand
ed a third after the former cashier had
been convicted in Stoddard County
and sentenced to the penitentiary.
A peculiar feature of the present
prosecution started is that the
warrants were served upon Wilcox
three days before the statute of limi-
tations goes into effect on one of the
counts charged against him.
It has been brought out in trials
since the banks crisis in 1912 that the
institution lost $4,000 while Wilcox
was in charge.
This loss was made up to the deposit
tors by the stockholders of the bank
who were heavy losers. The HOucks
lost heavily in the bank crash and now
It is said that the HOucks are behind
the present prosecution brought by the
| bank.
Wilcox while he was running the
bank, enjoyed the implicit confidence
of the stockholders, and it was not I'M
til matters had gone far that he was
Ousted
Wilcox is married and has two little
daughters. Since the bank trouble in
Bloomfield he has been giving his I'M
divided attention to the moving pic
ture business with which he was con-
nected before the crash.
AS cashier of the bank, Wilcox own
cd a beautiful mansion in Bloomfield
In the reimbursement, this was sold at q
sale ordered by court and was pur-
chased by brOther-in-law, so that the
Wilcox family was not forced to move
from the home.