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Show PROBABLY '. GONE TO CANADA. - ARante President Takes 8200,000 of the Funds nud Turns Up : ... . .Missing. .. r . ' Clinton, Mass", J annary 1. The Lancaster National Bank of .this place closed its. doors last night after ah examination of the books by the directors.' ,The president, W. H. McNeil, Mc-Neil, is .missing, and has not been heard from since Tuesday, when he was in Lowell, whence he. started ostensibly, for-Boston. He is charged with having ... USED THE BANK'S' MONEY FOB -. SPECULATIVE '"' ' ' ' EXTEBPBISES, , ;.. ' j '.' ' In which he was interested, and which do noV furnish . suffioient -security.' The- directors, di-rectors, Messri. Batchelder, Hosmer, Gardner, Gard-ner, Russell and Page, together with Bank Examiner Mitchell, who cam9l to." Clinton to-day," have been hard at work on the books all day. ; The directors seem depressed, and are exceedingly 'reticent. Cashier Farren Forester expresses himself very plainly; and his " " . . . , . . ; CONDEMNATION OF PBE3IDENT M'NEIL'S FI-,. FI-,. . . .: NANCTEBTNO - Is unmistakable. He'says tho latter, sinoo his elevatioii to the presidency of the bank last January, has invested tho bank's funds according to his own inclinations. His operations have at -times been far 'from straight.1 At the present time the bank has a surplus of about $3,500. The bank;holds paper of the'Low Cattle Company, of Vy-qniing, Vy-qniing, to the amount of $3,0d0.- So far as can be learne'd, deposits -'amount' to over $200,000, and acoording to statements from a quarter which is supposed to be authentic, President McNeil has appropriated this amount. The belief prevails that an examination exam-ination of the books of the bank will develop de-velop new and startling features. ' - si'neil has n.t bsen heabd ibom ' Since Tuesday last. It is said that a resident resi-dent of Clinton saw bim in Nashua, N. H., last Wednesday. Nothing further regarding the real condition of , the bank's finances will be known for a day or two, and possibly not then. .. Wobcesteb, Mass.; January 1. One of the directors of the Lancaster National Bank at Clinton ia authority for tbe statement that McNeil, the missing president, was at the bank on Monday night, when he took from tbe vaults GC0 bank notes and $1,0C3 in gold and a large amount of stock in the Rutland, Vt., Marble Company, supposed to be about $30,000, and a lot of paper signed by himself and held by the bank it is thought about $30,000 worth-, -There was in the vault considerable con-siderable money belonging to the defunct Lancaster Savings Bank, of which McNeil was one of the reoeivers, a good portion of whioh is said to be missing. |