Salt Lake Herald | 1897-10-19 | Page 2 | Bank Wrecker Convicted

tonsA BANK WRECKER CONVICTED Notorious Taylor Case Comes to a End in Kansas Kansas City Oct 18 Cashier George A Taylor of the Argentine bank which failed last year owing thousands of dollars to depositors was convicted in the criminal court in Argentine Kan at noon today of wrecking the concern The trial has been proceeding for a week Taylor held considerable paper of friends who at the critical moment were unable to come to his rescue Considerable excitement and strong talk followed the closing Of the bank whose depositor were mostly poor men and women and Taylor disappeared dis-appeared A reward for his arrest was offered but he finally surrendered voluntarily vol-untarily Sentence has not yet been i passed The liabilities of the bank when it I failed were found to be 1S9000 and the assets about 10000 less I was shown that false statements of the banks condition were swfcfn to by Taylor and that his banklieId SO000 worth of worthless paper