Show A STATEMENT I BY 0 f WALKER Only Two Mouths Ago Know True Trite Condition of Cal Cai Safe Do De Deposit posit nd Trust Go Co GoHE CoHE HE WAS ONLY A FIGUREHEAD NM Xoa tithe c la lit Iok Uti it a was W Vw R it u N NI l 1 M n Ml l lil r to II U Un I I n Pr Dec bc I hl hili arrival front Santa lant Bathers Barbara In lit the lie custody M df a detective tI v from tb U local beet I I pone police poll department David P V Walker president Of or the th Insolvent veat Catl tale Safe Doit and Trust Tr t PUt r today to today day gave o out t a statement In he declared 4 that tt not nut shout boot two inn I n month agu did he hp heron become bt re of If the theli th li true trUl Iata tat of ot affairs rth In the Ote over which he presided and whose wh fore fate IK is causing grave n anxiety to 1000 Je de d lore Walker according to hi his own on state statement ment appear to tn have hv been merely a n figurehead as 11 he h declared that he h had harl no nu active part In the Ihl of ot the lilt I trust company and Mild the Ih mining man mom of nr I lt it u Ira It IF which hith he h said ald vas u left In In III Inthe the hands of ot J Drown Brown the Ih ten gen em erat 1111 manager wio ni tit l I is tic ou eu IJ Ilyin a it 1 sell ell n In III the th lly Ity on u the Iii Iu hll of r b l d l J upon UI the th Ih dl VW ei s n of nr w lief I s t t l ar d dat at t II belonging lr t Ih 11 rr tale tal k which h had e he M n dots In ill III I h h bank h b IP V J Hartnett dire toi MI ill u uthe the th tru Ilu t 1 m and until je Pst 11 n counsel and 1111 IP 1 pJ IIo in l of nt the th Western Pacific Pal railroad Ill who wi wets withe 1 the p ala Iet eat r of nt th Ih t h rob cut tal id l l While neither nor lion will ill state 11 In It no at many wools wI wu i thai Ihal 1 hit Hown Hi own IK is I ren poll Hi hie fur for the Ih dl disappear ipp ai Sued ance I of r f the th alI the tat fart 1 P mIt m Ia v that Ihal the II iii former ha has Killed alt all knowledge know ledge of ot their and the th latter today otIa to t the III A Associated Pm Press 1 that the Ih were Wi d IK III ii the pis th hank by bv order mire ord of the court that thit h t neither h nor Walker had anything lit to I do du lIh th P Ir Ii removal nor nr at lh the time that It H IH tx i had any all kno know knowledge ledge of ot It II Tile In It my III duties as pie said ald I Mr Mi Walker alk I 1 wax was at the III tar ik from time timeto to I time but hut had no sill active induct In it connection nn with the Ibl of ot the II affairs tit or f II hunk hank Those Tho nil all re remained 1 In III the tho hands of Mr Ir Brown who h had hd hi been en n with the th h bank prior to its ni ill becoming lt It its president On the Ih eighth day d of or June JUlie 1907 1107 I went It east 1 on un business In connection conn tion with Uh the thO Han Francisco Ik Mond nJ and Mortgage company no The Th first I knew knea of say any weakness In connection with th bank bunk was all the thA receipt of ot ti telegraphic In Ink formation iron from fro Ran Ban Frand that thU the Ihn bank had closed Its Ita doors door I Hiring the th Ih few tw dav da Immediately preceding this thiN Information I 1 receive letters from Mr lr Bryan Brown to the effect erred that the tho bust busl bustness ness flops n of ot the Ih bank and It II Its branches branche wan wag wagIn In a II nourishing flourishing condition and an that In III spite t f the th financial crisis the Institution tion Ik wee m 10 doing well wellI 11 I know nothing whatever what regarding rj the th Colton Villon securities I 1 have hH neI neIm nev r neon Mean m the th securities tea luu I have hater ha I ver ter hail had of then them In any form BANKS DANKS I am ant not nI a n debtor to th the hank hack Inthe In Inthe the sum Morn of or I In soy any Mil other amount On the contrary at the time when the th bank closed cloned I 1 was wa a u rt ot the thoi bank blink In the sum stunt 1111 or about J and ami Mr AI lira Walker was wa also a Ii creditor I am alii toady ready read at t all times In Un the Uneven event even stockholder and nd depositor ran eat bring about the tb ol at of the th bank to aid It w so far tr H M as I am able MhlI I lave have seen II the attorneys for tor the th Colton estate tale this 1111 morning and have hae told them fully rully and ami RII frankly that I know In III connection with the w Ile of ot that bat estate and nd I am sun ready rad at ut any time to 10 extend to thill th lII and to tn every ever one Olle such aUM aid a II as I 1 ran cun 11 In oh ob full Information rt warding regarding the Ih atTain affair of or the bank At Allt Dbl DIt Atty Att Cook Conk stated this thin af IL toon that the lb two men he h hail had set I i to work examining the th books book tit or Ul the II l ank bank had bad gathered fathered touch much i lit Ite It affair and methods but hUI the Ih of ot which lie he h declined to t K eli U Gov wa we lie In root u t with itI Iii Rank Hank Iv Lynch m h slid anI her herrer 1 during the day da with lih rei roner In Inthe n the situation and ami th II lutes UI I of the th commission alon I Later In III the th cia day is the th commission took charge char rf of t the I h rit II liens hens Slate SIt bank a small malt ln institution on street tr t which whirl suspended i several vera I weeks week ago It II K E read land Is la I Ithe lathe the president and principal sia In the Institution The Tw c n rs found that the bank had h but bUI UM In lt It Its vaults vault ull as aM against owed tn to Its It upset a et were re renol notes miles nol for far SIlO |