The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-11
CLAIM BANK DEPOSITS
 s5oo,ooo TO s2,ooo,ooo
Three Tisbo Brothers Being
 Earnestly Sought by Police and Fellow Countrymen. Old Woman of vari- -CoIored Shawl "KnoWs" It's All Gone

NEW YORK. March 10.-(By Asso-
 ciated Press.)-The three Tisbo
 brothers. who conduct a bank and
 steamship agency on Mott street, in
 the heart of New York's Little
 Italy," disappeared mysteriously to-
 day. Immediately a crowd of deposi-
 tors gathered. demanding their saw
 ings. which were said to total $500. .Ooo
 to s3.ooo. 900.
 | Police took charge of the bank and
 its offices pending the result of their
 search for the missing brothers. After . search of apartments over the bank occupied by the brothers.
 officers reported that clothing was
 gone and that photographs had been removed from their frames. I While the police were checking up Tat the passport bureau, the Italian American line reported that 1t had found Francis Tisbos name on the passenger list of the liner Taormina. which sailed yesterday.
 Cursory inquiry by the police in- dicated that the bank depositors numbered 10000.
 | Not Authorized Bankers.
 | George B. Mclaughlin. state bank superintendent, stated that the Tisbos were not authorized private bankers If they had been accepting deposits they were violating the state penal llaws, MT. Mclaughlin said. Vicent Tisbo was head of the bank. which was known as Vincenzo Tisbo Hand Brothers Associated with him ,ora Vito opd R4CardO a |lfourth brother, was said. to have IIserved as the banks agent in Italy. | vincenzo was recognized as man lof position in Little Italy," to which She had como as 8 seller or cheese Hand oil and had risen 16 years ago to 1.-the honored post of banker, in whom lhis neighbors had Implicit confidence. The last the colony heard of Vim |,cenzo was Thursday night. He de- |lparted. saying he intended to dine on 1.-the Guiseppi Verdi. tied up at her | bier in the Hudson river.
 Vito and Francisco dropped out of |lsight the same evening.
 Yesterday the bank opened as |lusual. But in charge was Domino |IAcceta, a bookkeeper, who told the |Ipolice today that he did not know |lwhere the brothers had gone. This morning. however. several hundred depositors gathered in front |lof the little cubby-hole of the bank. | While one part of Little ltaiy Twas lamenting. fearing the loss Of |its 1ife-savings, another part ex- |Ipressed it's complete confidence m the bank and its head.
 Hadn't Vincenzo lived among them for years? Through his steamship offica the tie that bound them to the sunny land of their birth7 |l There was no doubt that Vincenza |lhad endeared himself to his fellow l |lcountrymen. Freely had he contrib |luted for fireworks at the fiestas. |lDay and night was he accessible 10 of push cart peddlers and |tsmall merchants who wished to con
 Isult him about things financial. 4 Storm Tiny oi2ics 2 Q
 N But there were hundreds assem- |lbled who would not be denied. They | lstormed the front of that tiny or |lfice only to be turned back by the |lpolice.
 One old woman. wrapped in a Ishawl of many colors, walled pit sously. Her life's savings of $4.ooO Hall gone-shs knew it.
 \ A middle-aged depositor. of flash Hing eye, alternately sullen and in |fufiated, declared more than $10.000 of his had gone over that counter. Soon the police had the names of Ia dozen depositors who said they |lhad entrusted total of more than | |lS5.O00 to Vincenzo. The safe was locked and the book |lkeeper said he did not know how Ito open it. The apartments, too, were |hocked but tho detectives made short lwork of them.
 Neighbors informed the police that lvincenzo Tisbos had been interested l lin various business enterprises and recently had sold laundry in Brooklyn. Stories were current that Etha Tisdos used tableware of real gold and silver but the apartments Finvaded by the police could not be easily confused with the salons of