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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1912
Page
5
Richmond H. Ingersoll former treasurer of the York County Savings Bank at Biddeford was pardoned by the Governor and council while serving a two year jail sentence in Alfred for embezzling funds of the bank.
The Cham ber of Commerce directors oppose the railroad bill arguing electrification can proceed without it and the bill does not relieve Boston discrimination. They also reject the separate public utilities commission idea and urge postponement per the transportation committee report.
Pioneer Maine banker and longtime bank treasurer Mr. Ingersoll faced arrest after the bank's August 12 1910 closure revealed a deficiency exceeding $300000. He was indicted on four counts with two dropped and sentenced January 13 1911 to two years. Counsel argued Western securities losses of $197000 were hidden by him and that the $300 embezzlement was the sole charge with no personal gain. Testimony cited his good character from Biddeford and Saco residents.
Washington May 10 Confederal currency seized by the Union army during the Civil War and stored in Treasury archives for nearly 50 years will be distributed by Secretary MacVeagh to libraries State and public and universities to be preserved as historic assets. A Piatt Andrew assistant secretary of the treasury today communicated the proposition to the most important representative libraries in each State. The supply is not sufficient to send to every library. The vaults hold a big stock of the currency notes came into the possession of the Union army about the close of the war and were turned over to the treasury in 1867.
Bishop J Albert Johnson a South Africa missionary told the African Methodist Episcopal Church Conference in Kansas City that he preaches to ten to sixteen thousand people each Sunday. He noted no church building can seat such crowds and that interpreters render his sermons clear to natives on plateau summits. He added that only a small percentage are church members and that schools are the first step to conversion amid the natives native savagery and wild customs.
Rackerby California May 10. W L Dickhouse of Fruitvale who leased the Peg Leg quartz group is in town. Local investors back a mining venture to re discover a rich quartz vein reported found by August Robot in the fifties.
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