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Show DEFAULTING CASHIER WIDER ACTS INSANE By Associated Press. NEW YORK. July SO.-Erwln Wider, the cashier oi the Uusso-Chinese bnnk agency, who was yesterday arrested and held In $2d.000 ball, but after confessing M?Icftlona aggregating more than 5500,000, has not tasted food since ho was locked up in the tombs prison. According Ac-cording to the keepers ho appeared to be on tho verge of a physical collapse. After writing out his confession of the theft of nearly ?700.000 worth of securities, securi-ties, it was learned today. Wider, brandished bran-dished a revolver around his h"ad threatening to kill both his wife and baby' as woll as himself. "From July IS. when he knew that his defalcation could no longer bo concealed until July 21. three days later when bo faced tho officials of the bank. I had charge of tho young man." said Dr. K. B. Page. "He talked strangely about his stealing, but I did not believe him at that time. I was of tiic opinion that Wider had gono temporarily Insane from the heat" |