Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1901 — ALVORD GETS THIRTEEN YEARS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ALVORD GETS THIRTEEN YEARS.

New York Bank Teller, Who Stole $690,000, Sentenced to Sinar Sins. Cornelius L. Alvord, Jr., teller of the First National Bank of New York, tfho pleaded guilty to three counts in the in-

d i c t m e n t found against him for falsifying the accounts of the bank and embezzling the sum of $090,000, was sentenced to r thirteen years at hard labor in Sing I Sing. , In passing sentence Judge Thomas said! “This case is an old-time case of thieving, nggra-

voted by a revolting betrayal of trust. These great banking institutions invite the confidence of the public, and they should be so conducted that this confidence is not betrayed. Any officer of a bank, or any employe, no matter what his rank or station, who is found guilty of stealing thtyfunds of such an institution should be made to suffer.”

CORNELIUS A VORD