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Corwith Banker's Return Leads to Fifteen Year Sentence
John H. Standring, former cashier of the Frat State Bank in Corwith, Iowa, is moved to tears as he pleads guilty in Hancock County District Court and is sentenced to fifteen years in Fort Madison penitentiary. Depositors lost about $75,000 when he disappeared in 1907. he later confessed to forging notes to cover losses from bank failures, fled to Texas, and returned to surrender with a plan for restitution and family reunion.
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Corwith
Garner
Iowa
John H. Standring
Frat State Bank
Fort Madison
Standling
Texas
Hancock County Grand Jury
P. J. Clark
Son
John Standring
Stillson Bank
First State Bank
O. Stillson & Co
Standring
Minneapolis
California
Stillsons
Mason City
J. J. Clark
el Paso
Houston
Britt
Long Beach
Cal