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Show LOOTER OP BUNK TINALLYCAUGHT Envin Wider, Cashier of Broken Russo-CIiincse Bank Found in Kcstaurant. SQUANDERED FUNDS IN WALL STREET GAMBLING Is Committed to Tombs; Will Plead Guilty, Declares His Attorney. NEW YORK, July 20. A frail little man with grey eyes and hollow checks, in whoso manner and prcsenco there was nothing to suggest that single-handed he had coollv lifted more than S500.000 in bonds and stocks from the strong box of a bank, was arrested today In a down town restaurant, not five minutes' walk from the bank he had robbed. He was Erwin Wider, the missing cashier of the Russo-Chinesc bank. In the court of general sessions his lawyer, Leon Ginsberg, Gins-berg, said ho would plead guilty, and lie was committed to tho Toombs in dofault of 25,000 bail. Ginsberg, vainly pleading with Judge .Foster to reduce the ball, declared Wider had not a cent of the money left, "It was all swallowed up in AVall street," he said. Almost as Wider was arrested tho grand jury handed up an Indictment against him, charging spociflcally that he stole three certificates, ono of fifty shares and two othors of twenty-five shares each of Baltimore and Ohio stock, and that ho disposed of them through tho brokerage houso of Dick Brothors on May 2:2 last. May Be Others. At least throo other oftlcors of the bank had access to tho safely deposit box in which the bank's securities were kept, and the box Itself was brought daily to tho offices of tho bank, where It. was kept In business hours. Brokers with whom Wider traded havo said ho called up from the bank to givo them orders over tho telephone. Tho arrest today was due to tho persistence per-sistence with which detectives trailed Wldor's wife. She was in consultation last night with Mrs. Ginsberg, whose husband, besides being Wider's lawyer, was also his neighbor. And thence she waB traced today to the restaurant whero her own husband was arrested. |