Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-22
Society-Leader Cashier EmbezZles
100000 and Makes Murderous
Assault on President,


Assault on President.
Lawrenceville, May 15.-J. Mon
tague Smith, cashier of the Law
renceville Bank and Trust company,
and a leader in the Lawrenceville
younger set. lis to-day fugitive from
from justice with a price on his
head. At a late hour last night the
watChman of the bank found Presi-
dent Dunham lying unconscious in
front of his desk. Help was summon
ed, and Mr.. Dunham, who was sup
posed to be suffering from some sud-
den attack of illness, was taken to
his hotel. Later. it transpired that
the president. had been the victim of
a murderouS assault. Discovering
upon his return to the city yesterday
evening that the cashier had been
using the banks funds in an attempt
to cover a stock speculation of his
own. Dunham sent for Smith and
charged him with the crime. Smith
made an unprovoked and desperate
assault upon his superior officer,
beating him into insensibility and
| leaving him for dead. Since it is
known that he did not board any of
the night trains east or west, Smith
is supposed to be in hiding some
where in the vicinity of the city. A
warrant is out. and a reward of ST.
900 for his arrest and detention has
been offered by the bank. 1t is not
thought possible that he can escape.
1t was currently reported not long
since that Smith was engaged to a
prominent young society woman of
Lawrenceville, but this has proved
to be untrue.
He folded the newspaper and put
it in his pocket. The thing was done,
and it could not be undone. Having
put himself on the wrong side of the
law, there was nothing for it now but
complete disappearance; exile, a
change of identity, and an absolute
severance with his past
When he had gone little distance
he found that the wagon road cross
ed the right of way twice before the
construction camp came into view.
The last of the crossings was at the
temporary material yard for which
the side track had been installed, and
from this point on the wagon road
held to the river bank. The ditch
people were doubtless getting all
their material over the railroad so
there would be little hauling by
wagon. But there were automobile
tracks in the dust, and shortly after
| he had passed the material yard the
| tramp heard a car coming up be-
hind him. 1t was a siX-cylinder road
ster, and its motor was missing
| badly.
Its single occupant was a big
| bearded man, wearing his gray
! tweeds as one to whom clothes were
! merely a convenience. He was chew
| ing a black cigar, and the unoccupied
! side of his mouth was busy at the
passing moment heaping objurga-
| tions upon the limping motor. A
| hundred yards farther along the mo-
| tor gave a spasmodic gasp ard stop
ped. When the young tramp came
up, the big man had climbed out and
| had the hood open. What he was
saying to the stalled motor was pic
! turesque enough to make the young
man stop and grin appreciatively.
Gone bad on your" he inquired.
Col. Dexter Baldwin, the Timan-
yoni's largest landowner, and q
| breeder of fine horses who tolerated
| motorcars only because they could
be driven hard and were insensate
and fit subjects for abusive language
took his head out of the hood.
1.-THE third time this morning" he
snapped. I'D rather drive a team oi
wind broken mustangs, any day in
the year,"
II used to drive a car a while
back" said the tramp. Let me lool
her over.'
The. colonel stood aside. wiping hi:
| hands on a piece of waste, while the
young man sought for the trouble. i
was found presently in a looseneC
magnetic wire; found and cleverly