Honolulu Republican, Volume IV, Number 501, 19 Ianuali 1902 — BANK CASHIER MAY BE THOUSANDS SHORT [ARTICLE]
BANK CASHIER MAY BE THOUSANDS SHORT
— TAVNTON. Mas? Jar. • — Harry | Townsend, cashk-r of *a* Bristol I County Nation] Bits it is :-pcru-d. ' def; it having . — n found toeght by i Bank Examiner Ewer. The deficit is said to have been due to speculation .a cotton futures Townsend is under *h. e cf a Un;v 1 States officer until the bank's affair? are fnnher in»e.-trested One of the directors said tonight that It 5 <K«0 is the outside figure of the defalcation and that the tank's surplus will amply protect ' all in: a rr-s*.- The director ais.j -aid that when the irregularities were «ailed to Townsends attention he admilte-i that : wa- -hurt in fcis atroonts to the amount stated. Towbs- ■ end bad worked in the bank since he i-ft school, some twenty-five years ago.