Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-08-07

A pitiful tale comes from the neigh
boring town of Englewood of social
degradation and moral filth. Abran
Cornelius, jr, man forty-eight years
of age, who was cashier of a local
bank there, and the father of three
grown children, with an invalid wife
took up with young girl stem
ographer of his bank, and eloped with
her. That is at least the suppose
ton, as Cornelius was found $11, O0C
short in his accounts, and the cir
went away at the same time. Cor
nelus had a summer cottage al
Greenwood Lake, where his wife and
two of his children were at the time
of his disappearance last week. The
story caused tremendous excitement
all over the east, and particularly III
Englewood. The girls name Is
Loretta Adelgais, and she lived with
her mother.
Cornelius evidently had paid court
to the girl, from all of the testimony
since CLEANED about the case. 1t was
all bad mixup, but the terrible part
of it is in connection with the con-
dition of Mrs. Cornelius. She has
taken the awful scandal greatly tc
heart, and it is liable to go very seri-
ously with her. The Hackensack
Record sent reporter out to Green
wood Lake and obtained the follow
ing story from her about the case
1t is indeed a sorrowing case of q
wife's trusting love and devotion, as
it is of a mans complete perfidy and
double life. The Record says:
Englewood, N. j., Aug. 3.-Saying
that he saw Miss Loretta Adelgais
and Abram Cornelius, jr., the missing
cashier of the Citizens National
bank, at the bank corner at noon on
Wednesday, Dan Coakley, rural
mail driver, said he overheard the
girl ask him, "How about those
checks ?" to which he is said to have
responded, 81 have them here.
Thereafter, according to Coakley, the
two held a whispered conversation
during which Cornelius passed some
papers to the girl, and they separated
When Clinton H. Blake, president
of the bank, heard of the meeting
between Cornelius and Miss Adelgais
on Wednesday noon he Immediately
notified the banks clients not to
honor any checks or drafts signed by
Cornelius.
Cornelius had free access all day
long to the banks vaults, where
usually about $4,000 in cash accumu-
lates each day. 1t is because only
$1,000 of this was taken that cred
ence is given to the theory that
something FASTENED Cornelius get
away. Mr.. Blake admitted that Cor
nelius' attentions to Miss Adelgais
prompted the bank officials to dis
charge her two months ago as a
stenographer.
The bank president has also in
vestigated Cornelius private affairs.
Cornelius got salary of $4,000 and
a bonus of $3.50 to 5000 each year.
His new house cost $4,000, but it is
mortgaged.
Agents for surety company which
bonded Cornelius and Prosecutor
Thomas J. Huckin, of Bergen county,
instituted a rigid search for his
whereabouts and that of $11 900 of
the banks money which disappeared
at the same time last Wednesday that
he and Miss Adelgais vanished from
the city. The authorities are work
ing on the theory that something
happened on Wednesday which
prompted him to hasten his de-
parture, but at the present time both
his and the girls disappearance are
shrouded in deepest mystery.
The girl seems to have dropped out
of sight completely after she left the
board of trade late in the afternoon,
and John E. Miller, a lawyer, of 20
Nassau street, New York, one of the
banks directors, who rode down to
New York with Cornelius on Wednes-
day afternoon, furnishes the only
clew to his disappearance.
Greenwood Lake, Aug. 3. - With
tears streaming from her blue eyes
and hand nervously clutching at her
white shawl, Mrs. Abram Cornelius,
invalid wife of the cashier of the
Citizens National Bank, of Engle-
wood, who disappeared Wednesday
with SILL 900 of the banks funds, said
last night that she still loves and be-
lieves in her husband.
Forgive him, you ask?" she sob
bed. 81 will forgive him anything if
only he has not gone away with that