Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-02-09 | Page 12 | Jury Disagrees in Case of Bankers

JURY DISAGREES IN CASE OF BANKERS V BKLLINQHAr, Wash.,XFd. S. After Af-ter debating and balloting- for fifteen hours tho jury in tlio Irial of Jacob Furth, E. W. Andrews, B. V. Anlceny and Daniel ICellelior, oliccrs of .lie Seattle National bank of Seattle, charged with a violation of tlio slate banking laws in connection -with the failure of tho Selirickor & Co. privato bank at Lacounor last April, reported a disagreement to the court la to todn-and todn-and war. discharged. information was filed against, tho four men iu Skngit county last Sep' lumber, charging them with aiding any-abetting any-abetting in soliciting ;md receiving deposits de-posits for tho Lacounor bank when it was known to bo insolvent. A change of vemio to this county was granted. Tlio chief witness for tho state throughout tho trial was W. E. Selirickor, Selirick-or, president of tho defunct bank, recently re-cently sentenced to six years' imprisonment impris-onment on a similar charge.