Show HE THOUGHT HIMSELF WEALTHY FAILED WITH BUT ill 1 S STARTLING LING disclosures dec 28 the tho committee la philadelphia by the he brodi creditor to latee appointed laffaira of t Tes the who failed nov nor str straub ab t the bro brokers dollare dollars worth not t a 9 2 29 9 tp report 0 rt that waa was fou found nd the of av available able biliti T ego C a bulit 0 to 1 I aj as total f and assets leaving a deficiency ot of these figures mean that the creditors the banks only excepted can never hope to realize a dollar on the amounts due them there Is A due depositors and customers there is left to pay thi this amount which makes the losses to be sustained by individual customers ami and depositors with the firm oi of stahl straub amount to according to tho the firms books john lohn 11 II straub junior member of thy the firm Is on ball on the charge ot of embezzlement mr bir stahl Is missing and a warrant has been issued for bis his arrest in an interview mr air straub said 1 one month ago I 1 believed myself a wealthy man I 1 thought I 1 was one ot of the partners in a remarkably sue successful and highly respected firm today I 1 am worse than a pauper instead of a fortune I 1 am involved in debt beyond any apparent possibility of ever getting out my firm Is worse than bankrupt and my partner has fled the curses of scores of people oro are heaped upon ray my head vollum the expert accountant in brokers books said at a meeting of the creditors today this Is the cleanest case of looting I 1 have met with in thirty years an official at the banking rooms said today in referring to method he ran three separate accounts on securities in the care of the firm paying interest Inte reston on stocks dividends on the same stocks and further interest from the firm and this was apparently one of his ways of blinding the eyes of his partner some one emptied the sate safe that Is evident the next thing lo 10 find out I 1 la who carried off the goods the be heaviest arlest creditor is frank M 1 I crawford the receiver in the aum sun of |