Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1901 — ROB BANK TO GAMBLE. [ARTICLE]

ROB BANK TO GAMBLE.

RECEIVING TELLER ADMITS DEFALCATION OF $60,000. Paying; Teller Who la Implicated by Hie Partner’s Confeej eion—Wife of Ex*Seuator Manderson k of Nebraska Shaken Up in Runaway. Defalcations, amounting, it is claimed, to $60,000, have been discovered in the accounts of the Williamsburg Savings Bank, an institution at Williamsburg, in the suburbs of Brooklyn. J; V. Meserole, th© President of th© bank, is authority for the statement that the parties implicated in the affair are the late Harry E. Corbett, a former paying teller of the bank, who died on Nov. 2, and George Zolleinhofer, a receiving teller, who, it is alleged, gave the first information leading to the discovery. The bank is fully protected, it is said, by the bonds of both Corbett and Zofleinhofer. Harry E. Corbett had been in the employ of the bank for eighteen years. According to President Meserole, George Zolleinhofer, one of the receiving tellers, went to Cashier William Burns and confessed to him that be, Zolleinhofer, and Corbett had for the last two or three years taken funds from the institution for the purpose of stock gambling, and that so far as he could estimate the amount that had been lost was between $50,000 and $60,000. Cashier Burns had Zolleinhofer repeat his confession to President Meserole, and a meeting of the trustees of the bank followed. Zolleinhofer, after making his confession, placed himself in the hands of the trust companies, and is aiding them in their investigation of the books. He was, with one exception, the oldest employe of the bank, having been with the Institution for thirty-three years. He is 60 years old. Corbett died in his apartment in Brooklyn of pneumonia on Nov. 2. He and his wife were highly respected.

MOTHER AND SON TRY SUICIDE, Two May Die at Minneapolis as Result of Taking Poison. Knute Bjorge Nordeman, aged 24, and tiis mother, Mrs. Sarah Nordeman, 64 years old, attempted to kill themselves in Minneapolis by taking morphine. They came to Minneapolis from Austin, Texas, ten days before, and were staying with Mrs. Nordeman's sister. When found both were unconscious, the mother in bed end the son sitting in a chair holding her hands. A note stated that he was tired ©f thisMvorld, to which he bade good-by. A half-ounce bottle of morphine, half filled, was found in his pocket. The sou was sent to the city hospital and has a chance to recover. Mrs. Nordeman is in • serious condition and her death is likely. MRS. MANDERSON IN RUNAWAY. Sadly Shaken Up in Omaha and Conch* man Possib’y Fatally Hurt. Mrs. Manderson, wife of Gen. Charles F. Manderson, was badly shaken up in a runaway at Omaha, and Charles A. 'King, the coachman, received injuries from which he may not recover. The horses were a spirited pair, which ran thirteen blocks through the center of the city, and were only prevented from crashing into other vehicles by the skill ot King. The carriage was overturned at the end of the street when the horses attempted to make a turn, and King was thrown with great force to the pavement. Neither Mrs. Manderson nor King made an attempt to jump. Channel to Cost $4,000,000. The Canadian public works department has completed estimates for the twentyfoot navigation channel between Georgian Bay and Lake Nipissing. The total cost will be $4,000,000. Connection will be made at Callendar with the Grand Trunk and at North Bay with the Canadian Pacific road. Indians Claim Rich Land. Isaac Zane, a member of the Wyandotte tribe of Indians, whose home is at Wyandotte, I. T., is in Kansas City in relation to a big claim of the tribe for lands on Lake Erie, near the city of Toledo. According to the story of Mr. Zane the lands in question are a part of the old Ohio reservation of the tribe.

Find Man of Stone Agro. Hunters from Susquehanna, Pa., while excavating for a hunt near Shohola glen, N. Y., discovered a cave in which they found the skeleton of a man of gigantic size. It was swathed in rawhide trappings that kept it in a sitting posture, the knees drawn up to the hand and clasped in a bony embrace with fleshless arms. Two Killel by Explosion. Two men were killed and four injured as the result of the premature explosion of a blast at the Casparis stone quarry northwest of Columbus, Ohio. The two men killed were working under a ledge ■nd were buried under tons of rock. Fhip and Crew Lost. > News of a serious marine disaster on the rocky Newfoundland coast has been received. The Norwegian steamer Ella is reported lost with all on board. She carried a crew of twenty-five. Details of the wreck are meager. Trial of Gathmann Onn. Gnthmann grin was tested at the SandyHook proving grounds, but did not meet expectations. An immense shell was hurled against the target, which was not injured. A shot from a regulation gun demolished it.

Dynamite Fast Train. Dynamiters, evidently bent upon robbery, wrecked the southwestern express train on the Northern Central branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad, a few miles north of York, Pa. Passengers on the train were severely shaken up, but miracolously all escaped injury. Fair Ilulldlnira Burned. The electrical and transportation buildings of the Cotton States and International Exposition of 1895 were destroyed by fire at Atlanta, Ga. The loss is estimated to be (50,000.