New-York tribune., 1919-12-17
Money Missing From Bank
Where Ehrman Was En-
ployed as Clerk: He Says
All but 50 Is Gone
Arrested at Hotel Here
Declares He Was Host to 3
in Atlantic City and Girl
Got Away With $1,000

A ten-day sojourn in Atlantic City
with his brother and two girls dissi-
pated the greater part of $1,000 he
is charged with having stolen from the
National City Bank, Guillermo Ehrman,
nineteen-year-o Panaman, con-
fessed yesterday, the police say.
Ehrman had charge of the registered
mail department in the bank The
theft upon which the accusation
against him was based was not dis
covered until October /. Detectives
yesterday.
The youth. who is said to come from
an excellent family, went to work in
the bank. at 90 Wall Street. December
10 of last year His duty was to re-
ceive and sign for all incoming regis
tered mail, to enter its receipt on a
book and to turn the packages over to
the cashier. Ehrman's widowed mother,
his brother. Robert, and he had come
from Panama about year before
Guillermo went to work in the bank
and were living on West Seventy-fourth
Street.
Mailed from a Western Bank
On August j Of this year his
reputed confession relates, Ehrman
found himself broke" and the rent of
separate apartment occupied in Ca
thedral Parkway overdue.
Right after ! got back to the bank"
the police quote him as saying. "a
messenger brought in bunch Of
registered packages: slipped one of
them into the pocket of my overcoat,
which hung in locker when no one
was looking. and went on with my
work. | covered it by making two en-
tires in the book for one of the other
PACKAGES
When he left the bank that after
noon, the detectives say Ehrman told
them, he stopped IN the hallway at so
Wall Street and tore the wrapping
from the package 1t contained sheaf
Western bank. Ehrman hurried to
his mothers house, it is alleged, found
there was $4,000 IN the package and
hid it in the lining of sofa.
For twelve days the clerk kept on at
his tasks in the bank In the mean
time, according to the police, he ap
propriated another registered package,
this one containing $1,000 in currency.
He resigned August l6. His move
ments therceforth are told as the de-
tectives say he himself narrated them:
Roll Always About Same Size
Ny brother, two girl friends and l
went to Atlantic City and put up at
The Blackstone Hotel The four OF
money in my trunk and one of the
girls used TO help herself when she
needed any change. never had any
idea she was taking very much, though,
because whenever | looked at the roll
1t was always about the same size.
OF course, paid the bill for all of us.
We had the best there was of every
thing and hit the high spots.
THE tenth day after we reached
Atlantic City the two girls beat It.
Then examined the roll Of bills more
girls had been taking the hundreds
and twenties downstairs and changing
them into s bills. She would put
single dollars on the inside of the
roll and take big bills She got away
with about $4,000 in this manner
Robert and | waited around for d few
days and then he went back TO New
York. where | left him and went to
Buffalo"
Warrant Issued
Assistant District Attorney Richard
Murphy caused search warrant,
charging grand larceny, 70 be issued
for Ehrman on October g. Detectives
from Deputy Commissioner Iahey's
staff and from the National Surety
Company traced the fugitive 20 Buf-
falo and Toronto. but there lost the
trail.
His mother. in the meantime, had
moved from West Seventy fourth Street
TO Riverside Drive. and they kept close
tabs on her mail. They discovered she
imprint OF Cooks Hotel, in this city
Yesterday Mayer and Brown inspected
the hotel register and learned that It
"William G. Thompson" was staying
there. Guillermo is the Spanish equiv
alent for William. They went to
Thompsons room and It's occupant ad-
mtted he was the person they sought
Ehrman's alleged confession was
made in Deputy Commissioner Lahey
Office, the detectives say
Have you any Of tho S11 900 left q
they asked him just before he was
led to cell
The boy stuck his hand into his
trousers pocket and drew out a s.
bill
That's all he said, according tc
the rOlice