Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1901 — ERRING BANKERS END LIVES. [ARTICLE]

ERRING BANKERS END LIVES.

President and Cashier, Facing Shortage of 881,000 Die Together. Remorse caused by years of stealing which has made penniless hundreds of their friends and other residents of Vancouver, B. C., who trusted them, or fear of violence at the hands of wronged depositors who were pursuing them, caused Charles Brown, president, and E. L. Canby, cashier, of the First National Bank, which was closed Saturday, to kill themselves. They met death as they had incurred disgrace, together. Their bodies were found Sunday morning, one lying on the other, in a clump of bushes in Fruit Valley, on the outskirts of the town, from which they had fled on being confronted with evidence of their guilt. The wrecking of the First National is supposed to have been brought about by speculation on the part of Brown and Canby. The exact amount of their shortage is not known, but Examiner Mitchell, who is in charge of the institution, is authority for the statement that it is at least SBI,OOO.