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Show CONNECTICUT BANK IS ROBBED BY EMPLOYEE ANSOXIA. Conn., Sept. 16. The entire en-tire police and fire departments of the city were called out tonight to disperse a crowd of about 5000 persons following the announcement late today that State Bank t.'ommissioner Everett J. Sturgiss had taken charge of the affairs of the Savings Bank of Ansonia. The treasurer of the Inbtitution, former Mayor Franklin Frank-lin Burton. i( under arrest charged with 1 embesilerr.em of $36,000 on bogus notes during a period of fifteen yeotrs: A run on the bank started just before business closed and tlie directors invoked the sixty days' notice rule. Burton has twice been mayor of the city and once a state senator. He Is prominent in church affairs. |