Bank crimes drop profits as Pinkerton report cites prison terms
Pinkerton's National Detective Agency reports to the American Bankers Association that bank robbery and forgery fell under prosecution last year. Seventy accused criminals faced charges with forty-five forgery cases and twenty-five burglaries. the total stolen money excluding embezzlement reached 103692. Indeterminate sentences and long terms dominate the record, with W H Sprout posting a fifty nine year conviction and Harry Leonard receiving a decade plus indeterminate time.
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Pinkerton
American Bankers’ Association
Paul C. Stensland
Henry W. Hering
Milwaukee Avenue State Bank
Frank G. Bigelow
Henry Goll
Milwaukee
Newton C. Dougherty
Teoria National Bank
Pinkerton National Detective Agency
W. H H. Sprout
Folsom
Cal
Sprout
Bacranento
Farmers’ Co-Operative Union Bank
Yuba City
Pueblo
California
Edward Whalen
Reform School
Preston
Wenr
C. D. Romero
Lincoln
Neb
Bridgeport
Harry A. Leonard
National City Bank of New York
Leonard
Elmira
N. Y
Mra
Cecil Rings
Trochester
N.Y
George Dunning
New York
Chicago
Chicago tightens public notices and park board grip
A wide mix of Chicago civic items fills the page including re elected West Chicago Park Commissioners led by Eckhart, bond issues disposed, and praise for Dr. Reilly. Mandamus actions target Sunday closing for bars while Mayor Dunne faces legal suits over cold storage rules and the new Municipal Court faces scrutiny.
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Board of West Chicago Park Commissioners
Bernard A. Eckhart
Frederick F. Bullen
Alonzo Wygant
Jens Jenson
Dunne
Willam Bross Lloyd
John Reckinger
West Side
Kenny
Seymour Stedman
Charles HH. Soelke
Chicago
Stedman
City Inspectors Seize Four Hundred Head of Diseased Cattle
City inspectors seize 400 diseased cattle approved by government men. Chief Food Inspector Murray decrees post January 15 seals on carcass sections for Chicago butchers and packers. City and federal meat-inspection tensions rise as more condemned meat is reported and calls for reform rally amid public health alarms.
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Bartzen
Hyde Park
City Councit Judiciary Committee
Health Department
Parrick J. Murray
Chicago
Chicago Health Department
Murray
Niles
Howth Department
Charles J. Whalen
Comenlasioner of Health
Twelfth Street
Merchants of
Gree
Pubiic
William J. O'Connell
J. I. Kesner
State Street Property Owners’ Improvement Association
Corrupt Tax Dodging Railroads Critiqued in Local Remarks
Speaker laments $85 million combined checks by Iam Waller and A. O. Slaughter. Several men evade taxes while others pay nominal amounts. Calls for Illinois legislators to surrender annual passes to railroads and debate funding millenge. Wobbly Willie Wheelock touted again as Superior Court Judge candidate amid easy removal narratives.
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Iam Waller
A. O. Slaughter
It In
Axsessors
Willie Wheelock
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National Detective Agency
Ernst Mummell
Bis
Nait Wax
Petco
Alexander HH
Revell
Mieot- Inga
Nicholas Senn
Edgar M. Snow
James L. Thayer
Frang Amberg
L. A. Seeberger
C. Barlow
8. D. Kerfoot
Harrison
Millonaire Committee
Honore Palmer
Claude Seymour
George Belcher
B. M. Winston
Charles T. Otis
Will
White City
Benjamin F. Richolson
A. C. Schrader
John M. Dingman
Frank P. Tyrell
Eckhart
Tam
Aston
Frank W. Reilly
Roger C. Bullivan
Jacksonville
Tom Webb
Twentythird Ward
Martin B. Madden
The
Press Club of
John J. Flinn
Mr. Flinn
Ibrarian
Frank R. B. Woodward
Herbert W. Bloomingston
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Frank M. Morrin
Milton Buckan
Douglas Malloch
Joseph F. Henderson
Earl Marble
Albert G. Beaumane
Herbert —W. Bloomingston
Fred’k Pelham
Charles Walter Brown
W. BR. Fairehird
Charles Eugene Banks
Arthur Henning
Linn
Young
John F. Higgins
Hot Springs
Ark
William A. Pinkerton
Pinkerton’ S National Detective Agency
Valon
Beef Trust
Milneis
Beet ‘Trust
Carter H. Harrison
National Clyie Federation
Potter Palmer
Ralph M. Easley
Federation
Fred A. Busse
Fletcher Dobyns
Diettier
Lima
Baale Hess
Fred
J. Pierpont Morgan Traction
Lfe
State Legislative Committee
William J. Pringle
Council
Charley Alling
Gary
Superior Court
State Senate
Charles E. Cruikshank
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