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Show MODEL CITIZEN M SERIOUS TROUBLE Frank T. Arnold, a Bank Cashier of Utica, N. Y., a Confessed Embezzler. UTTGA, Nt Y.. April 13. Prank T. Arnold, for over forty years tho model , citizen and leading business man of New Berlin and confessed embezzler of approximately $250,000 of the funds of the First National bank of that village, lies today at death's door in his beautiful bungalow in South Main streot. Should Arnold by any chance recover his health he will have to suffer the penalty for a crime which has brought down upon his head the haired and bitter curses of hundreds of men and women who through his life held him in high honor aud respectful esteem and intrusted to his hands rite savings of Arnold, lying at. thc point of death, revealed today to ono of tho directors of the bank the events preceding tho uncovering of his defalcation while he was cashier of thc institution. Early last month a man appeared in New Berlin and demanded an audienco with Cashier Arnold at tho bank. This man gave h is name as Charles 1:1. Holland Hol-land and ho flourished under tho noso of the cashier two letters which he said would create a sensation were they published in the newspapers?. Ho demanded de-manded $10,000. Tho arrest of Holland, which followed, fol-lowed, created a great deal of excitement excite-ment and comment through the parish of the First National which extends over a wido territory. Once tho suspicions of the people who had for years done business with tho bank were aroused, the end was inevitable, in-evitable, and Arnold's defalcations wero revealed. |