Salt Lake Telegram | 1903-06-13 | Page 5 | Scion of Royalty Kills Himself in Bank Vault

SCION .0? ' - : EESELP IH BAiE.yMl: Confessed to Embezzlement Trcni His Employer and Tried to Make Restitution.. '. CHICAGO, June 12. Having confessed to an embezzlement that will probably prob-ably amount to $4000, Ernest Naorajal, a native of Ceylon, today shot and killed himself In the aafety deposit vault of the Prairie State bank, where he had taken his employer to reimburse him as best he could with the small savings he had there. NaoraJl was cashier for Edward Reub. a commission merchant. ' He was 28 years old and came to Chicago from Ceylon six years ago. The cashier frequently fre-quently received remittances from Europe In addition to a liberal aalary, and bad told fellow employees that he waa the scion f a royal famtfy In India. He was well educated and declared himself a graduate of English and Eaat Indian universities. NaoraJl asserted that all the money, together with that received from abroad, had been lost In gambling.