Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-06-07 | Page 15 | Convicted Banker Commits Suicide

CONVICTED BANKER COMMITS SUICIDE EMPORIA Kan Ian June 7 UP UP- UP The stor story of the wrecking of oC two banks the flooding of a state with forged bonds and the ruination of oC the lives of four men was closed to toda today today to- to da day with the suicide of Warren W W. Finney banker realtor and poli poll I Finney shot himself while officers waited to take him to prison to serve a 1 sentence of from irom 36 to years He Hc was found unconscious on a divan in his summer cottage five miles from here a mirror propped before him and a 8 revolver in his hand Shot through the brain he died a short time later at a hospital He was 62 Finney's Finney fight to clear his name and evade prison began in 1933 when forged bonds were found in the state treasury placed there in the name of or Finney's Fidelity State bank of Emporia now defunct Investigation tion show showed d more than a million in forged securities had been floated floated float float- ed in Kansas