Salt Lake Telegram | 1918-12-24 | Page 10 | Enraged Bank Depositors Threaten Arson

1AGE0 BANK DEPOSITORS THREATEN ARSON Bingham Residents to Burn Buildings Unless Money Is Returned, According to Message to Sheriff UNKKSS tlio Citi.iis State bank of I'.iiiliitin and the topper Mali- Iiank oT Copper fi"l'i lako soiii4 steps to st I !o claims apainst Hip in tint- to their! recent cloning; by the stue hank com- I misaioner, the hanks wjll be burned to I the ground by enraged depositors, i according to information reaching ihej off ice of Sheriff John K ti 'less Threat have been made that unless j payment of claims la mail within the! next few days, fires will be started j in Bingham. Copperfield and other towns throughout the state that will totally destroy property in these towns. The i'ltien State bank of Bingham Bing-ham and the Copper State bank of Copperfield, both of which Hodnev T. Badger of Salt Lake is president, were closed by the state bank commissioner com-missioner more than two weeks a so, j when it was discovered upon exami-I exami-I nstion that Ihe capital of the two ; Iwtpk was impaired. I pon motion of Ian B. Shields; attorney general. Javid Iunbar was appointed receiver of the two banks. Knraged at the failure of the banks depositors In Bingham can von have threatened to rase not only the banks, hut the two tow'ns, as well as other towns In t He state, according to advices ad-vices reaching Sheriff Corless' office. Stringent measures will be. taken to suppress any riots or other destruction destruc-tion of property growing out of the bank failures.