Show tHE SALT LAKE TELEGRAM Y 13 it 9 Two Men Mth Steal Minion Million From I Bank Over Long Loni Period I 7 e ey i I I I I k I By y ALEXANDER HERMAN I N NEA EA Service Staff Writer j YORK yom Pa May 12 Two 12 Two men men TV wh h I I have confessed to getting a dollars easy eacy money out of or the sam samE bank at the same time now say thai that It doesn't pa pay They are In Jail and the City banot ban ot of York which has nearly depositors depositors de de- de I I as been forced to close its doors Behind It all alt lies lles the tragedy of a aI drab Main street I I Thomas B B. Baird was a school teacher teach teach- er 11 In this little Pennsylvania Dutch I county The pay was not very at attractive attractive attractive at- at nor was the work very thrill- thrill Ing Ing And BaIrd wanted to marry Ho to he g got t a a. Job In the local bank Money passed through his hands In quantities that he had only dreamed about It set him to thinking He wanted to rise a aboVe e oe the life In the small town He wanted to todo todo do dOTh big g things The thought worked on him and worked on him and he succumbed suc sUc- According to his confession he be began began be- be be 1 gan his manipulations in 1900 He was caught only last month During DurIn the twenty-three twenty years ears of ot othIs his activities lIe he sa says s 's he he stole more than i Alongside BaIrd who was the cashIer cashler cash cash- ler Ier of the bank worked William 11 H H. Boll Holl as a assistant He too had lived in the he little town for tor many years and was wall tired of It H He began tra traveling with witha a a fast set It was hard keeping up until he too started to find an easy way out It consisted of ot sprinkling forged notes among the banks bank banks s papers and pocketing the money bank officials sa say Baird Bairds s technique was different The Tho investigators say ay that h he Jook took cash from Irom rom the savings deposits deposits' and put raise false charge slips through the ledger led led- ger Neither knew of or the others other's operations opera It went went on on for fOt years In 1915 Boll Bolt went wE-nt on a vacation Baird looked over the books He discovered discovered dis dis- dis covered d defalcations but sam sala saia noth noth- ing Boll Hon learned only recently that there were other Irregularities But the state authorities did not discover ls ver an anything thing wrong until last week R R. P P. Ferguson state bank examiner was the first Inspector in itt three twenty went three years rears who saw through the die cashIers cashier s manipulations Just JUI t as soon as he stepped up to the he bookkeeper says sas Baird I t wrote on a slip of paper It Its s all up and showed It to Boll But that night both men came back backo w to o the bank bank Baird took toole 1000 and Boll as their last loot to oot-to to hire la lawyers I says says says' the district attorney I There is no rio use trying tr to beat the game ne said Baird when he was arrested sted and jailed after failure to raise bill ball He lIe said he had lost the money mone In wildcat speculations Anybody pla playing the market he i yarned warned is is a sucker In 1915 acc according to Baird he was short In his accounts between and all of ot which he says sas was lost in bucket shops He backed many oil and mining companies with half a million dollars say In an attempt to make big bl money mone and get out of the smalltown small smalltown smalltown town banker class He lie wanted to show the world that he could be a big But Boll Boil Boli went into the game for a different reason He wanted to step up pp o out t of or small email town society Remember two things s he told m me methe the first newspaper man to Interview I him in lii the county Jail It may be easy to get tet into fast company but buth It h I. I might tn lr tte- tte nn nn un n with It It I I I know w I tried d- d ii It u I I Small pa pay and lax regulation lead to temptation I Bolls Boll's s salary was n. n 3 year ear For FormanT many manT years it had b been en 2000 Both men are over 50 married and f have large families Wives of the Arrested greated men are dei de- de i I to stand behind them This In spite of State Banking Commissioner Commission Commission- I er Camerons Cameron's statement that he has letters involving other women 1 No mater what happens Mrs I Baird sa says sas s no matter what people say my faith in my husband cannot annot I be shattered r d. d Th The The- townsfolk are sorry torr for her and I for Mrs 1 Boll But they feel reel none too I k kindly There g eto toward were t the many husbands school gi teachers I and small depositors among the thousands thou- thou I sands affected by the tho closing of the bankI bank i I They will probably get back about 50 per cent of their money mone says CH C C. H H. Graft Graff deputy deput of ot the state bank examiners examiner's dep department I J JI I The City bank of York closed by I the sta state and anti left William H. H HI Boll assistant cashier right I II I Thomas B B. B Baird cashier i I 7 I f w |