Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-11-10 | Page 11 | Two Bank Tellers Admit Stealing to Bet on Ponies

Two Bank Tellers Tell ls l's Admit Admi Stealing to Bet on Ponies NEW YORK Nov Not 10 tAP CAP AP Charged with stealing upward of from the Bowery Savings ban bank two young bank tellers were lodged in Tombs prison one badly cut on the face and hands as the result of an attempt to Jump through a seventh floor loor window while being questioned at the district district district dis dis- attorneys attorney's office The tellers C. C Russell Morton of New Rochelle and Clarence Oliver of Brooklyn are said to have confessed confessed confessed con con- to stealing the money to bet beton beton beton on horse races A little more than has been recovered and the rest is covered by bonds According to detectives Morton and Oliver said they covered up their peculations by depositing checks against each other hoping that eventually the ponies would favor them and they could return the banks bank's money