People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1895 — COLEAN TAKEN TO JAIL. [ARTICLE]

COLEAN TAKEN TO JAIL.

Further Embezzlements Discovered Against the Fort Scott Cashier. Fort Scott, Kan., Oct. 31. —J. R. Colean, the cashier who robbed the State bank of this city of $50,000, will be carried to jail to-day on a stretcher. Since the bank was wrecked he has been seriously sick, and he has been allowed to remain in his elaborately furnished bedroom under guard of a sheriff. Yesterday, when the bank receiver discovered a further shortage of $3,500, public feeling focused against him, and the prosecuting attorney employed physicians to examine his condition, and submit an opinion as to whether incarceration would be fatal or not. There is a strong popular feeling against Colean, the extent of which may not yet be known. The savings department of the bank was largely patronized by working people, who are distressed at the probable loss of all they possessed.