Show LEADING BANKER TAKES Ill III Health Blamed for Suicide of Elliott Knox NEW YORK Feb By 5 5 By The Associated A Press Press A revolver shot muffled by the tho roar of at traffie outside the second Forty-second street brunch branch of the tho Bowery flowery SavIngs bank Friday ended the life lite of at WillIam Elliott Knox who rose rosl tram from a minor clerkship to the presidency of at the bank and of the American Bankers association Percy DeLamoter secreta secretary who had seen Mr no I Knox enter a third floor lounge loungo room to rest after orter luncheon went ent to summon hint him to the telephone In his office downstairs He lie found Mr Ir Kox a revolver gripped In his hand lying lifeless on the floor A phy phy- physician phy- phy physician physician said he had b been en dead for tor half an hour BLIME lJ ILL HEALTH Officials of at the bank attributed Nr Mr Knox's suicide to general Iii 11 health They said he suffered a nervous breakdown three months ago Recovering Mr Knox reo re- re returned turned to o duty dull ot at n the l bank a il- il work work- w viv In working Ing they said eight 10 or I 12 hours a day as conditions dictated He was not despondent at any time anytime they said Mr Ir Knox was born In Strabane Ireland In 1862 He came to America as a 0 boy and was educated educated ed cd In New York public schooLs school and city college He lie entered the employ of at the Bowery Savings bank In 1885 as B a clerk cleric He rose steadily and In 19 1922 2 was made president Under his direction the bank became the second largest savIngs bank In New York and with a total of at in do- do deposits de deposits posits and deposItors WELLS WELL IS SUCCESSOR lie was succeeded as president ot of the American Bankers association association In 1925 1323 by Oscar Well Yell of at Birmingham Ala Ala Recently three tellers In the Bowery Dowery Savings bank were arrest ed cd and confessed to having em- em em embezzled of ot the banks bank's funds which they lost playing horse horBe races Suspended sentences were Imposed Impose 1 and the tho tellers put on 10 years probation |