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Show CLARK BLAMED ANDREWSFOR RUIN Last Statement of Dead Cashier Is Found bj His Daughter. LETTER SAYS HE WAS SHAMEF.ULL1 ROBBED Receiver Cunningkaui Has At-tachmeilts At-tachmeilts Levied on Andrews's An-drews's Property . i P1TT8B1 RG. Nov. 1. The following statement of T Lee Clark, ashler .if the Bnterprlae National bank of Allegheny, written faw hours before he committed SUlelcle. was made publll tOUlghll Clark s Last Statement Dean-st wife ami hi 1 Jr-n : I o Ion hnurs or iaaa i wtl ba ' the ithr world. You hae been a dear, uood wifa to nip. Andrews Inu worked my ruin. l.-ai wife, keep all tlif hi- uriuicf for yminwif n i bablea Mow hard II is to leave vnu ail I bava nin.le a deperata afforl to kii-p ihinK folng until I arould t the load financed, but It has t.et-n too idnw The examiner I. h. re an. I I am rulie-d. Do forgive me. It Is not my fault I hao been hamefully robbed T)W hunk Will get everything every-thing but the life liuranve. YiMTt HI'SHAND Daughter Finds Lettei Clark committed suicide on the morning of October 18. und the above atatemont, written in p in II mi one nf tin- hank's letterheads w.,s found In the dead man 'a home by his fourteenyea.i'-old daughter and turned over to inn attorney it was evldenth written at tin- h.lllk Hie nlKhl before the aulclde, when Bank Bxamlnt r Cunningham and Clark worked till niid-Dtgh niid-Dtgh on the books of the Institution. The bank was closed by the Comptroller of the Curreno the all. Tin following t'lark's suicide on advlcei from Examiner Cunningham. The ahOVe StllteUKIlt is not Ilie line alleged al-leged to be in the possession ol the Federal Fed-eral authorities, Thai one. friends of the dead cashier say, was to the Government authorities, but it existence ban been vigorously denied. Treasurer Santa Fe Cential. T. I-ee Clark, the deceased cashier, was treasurer of the Santa v- Central railroad, rail-road, of which VY 11. Andrews was pri-i-drnt. This road Is in New Mexico and la about 117 miles long running from San-la San-la Pe to Torrance, with s branch now projected to Albuquerque. The road connects con-nects at Santa, K.- with the Denver cv UI- Grande, a Kenned with tin- Atcbl-aon. Atcbl-aon. Topeka 4: Santa Fe; and ut Torrance Tor-rance with the El Paso & Northeastern system. The railway was npii.iliz.il .it 12.600,000 and ir bonded lo the extent of $2.5ji.txJ. or this 12,000.000 of bonds have bean issued, while K00,000 have been kept in tin- treasury fm betterments, A dispatch from Franklin, Pa., tonight, uys. Attach Andtews's Property. "The alertness of Rec Iver .John V. Cun ulngliatn .f the Entei-prlce Nailniinl bank of Allegheny has resulted In securing for the creditors of that Institution something some-thing like $i;.oh which was seised In s foreign attachmenl agalnjkl William H. Andrews. Jusi before the close of busl- ness at the courthouse yesterday, J. H. Osmer & Sons, attorneys, received a tele-gram tele-gram from Receiver Ciinnlnghiim In-structlnsj In-structlnsj them to attach all the real and personal property of Mr. Andrews In Venango county. The writ was issued and was to be eered by Sheriff McBl-hlnney McBl-hlnney today Contemplated a Sr.le it directed particularly that all mono and credits In the hands of the Nnllonal Transit company. through which the Standard Oil company purchased Its crude oil, be attached. It is understood that the receiver took this step upon learning thai Andrews contemplated the sale of his oil property- In t'heixv Tree township Ihls COUhty That the sale had been planned Is Indicated bj Andrews and hi attornoj fiuk-ih- Mackey, arriving h'-re at 2 o'clock tills morning They went to the AlMCS liotel did not register and Instructed the clerk not to let any inn- know that they WOre there "When the courthouse opened this morning Andrews and his attorney learned that the attachment had been Issued Is-sued Howe.-r. lh- met Dr Burchficld, I he prospe,-t e purchaser, and after se- curlng Receiver Cunningham's consent, the sab whs loiisu m ma ted and the proceeds pro-ceeds turned over to the receiver." A dispatch from Meadville. Pa.. sa s valuable real estate In Steuben Rome and Oil Creak townships belonging to An-dtews An-dtews has been attached |