People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1895 — BIG BANK SWINDLE. [ARTICLE]

BIG BANK SWINDLE.

Stmti and TAm Concerns Victimised by Bogus Diafts. Wichita, Kas., Dec. 11. —The systematic bank swindle in this section of the country apears to have been of great extent. The bank at Ness City, it is now learned, was swindled out of SSOO, and a bank in Canadian, in Texas, to the extent of $450. An effort was made to catch the Sedgwick County Bank, in this city, for $250. Recently, a man named Long came here with four drafts, aggregating about SI,OOO, and operated among the merchants, but it is not known how many were cashed. All these drafts bear the name of Frank Royse of the Citizens’ bank of Jamaica, Guthrie county, lowa. Royse used to be cashier of the defunct bank of Enid, O. T. The drafts are all forgeries.