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Show PRIVATE BANKER OF CHICAGO KILLS SELF Jour Others Indicted in the State Courts; Solvent Banks Meet Demands. CHICAGO, Sept. IS. The suicide of Joseph Tnma, heart of the Tuma Savings bank, a private institution, and the indictment in-dictment of four private hankers were the latest developments today in Chicago's Chi-cago's '"epidemic" of private hank failures, fail-ures, and a general inquiry into these institutions. in-stitutions. Tu'ma's hank, the state's attorney said, was to have been investigated. The banker's counsel, however. said the suicide sui-cide was due to ill health and overwork, over-work, and that the hank is solvent. The state's attorney sent officers to Tuma's bank immediately after the suicide with instructions to investigate. Tuma stood on a. pier, fired a shot into his head and fell into Lako Michigan. Mich-igan. The state's attorney announced that the prand 1ury today has voted trim bi Us against" Michael and Stephen Mh-hniuk on churses of receiving deposits while their private bank was insolvent, and against Moses Ginsburr and his son Emanuel, who conducted another private bank, on the same charge. Runs continued today on some private banks known to be solvent and which had no difficulty In meeting the demands. When Mrs. Tuma, the hanker's wife, was informed of his suicide tonight, she said he had loaned $3non to a contractor con-tractor and tha t payment was overdue. To recoup his cash on hand, she said, he had soneht to borrow $1n,0fm from a downtown down-town bank today, but was unsuccessful. |