Dunklin County Bank - Malden, MO

Bank Information

Episode Type: Suspension → Closure
Bank Type: state
Start Date: January 1, 1928*
Location: Malden, Missouri (36.557, -89.966)

Metadata

Model: gpt-5-mini
Short Digest: 8f416a47

Response Measures

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Description

Article describes the bank being 'taken over by the state in January, 1928' after being short about $18,000 and a former banker convicted of embezzlement. No run is mentioned. Classification: suspension leading to permanent closure/receivership due to bank-specific adverse information (embezzlement/shortage).

Events (2)

1. January 1, 1928* Receivership

Newspaper Excerpt: The bank was short about $18,000 when taken over the state in January, 1928, according Billings Stock's wife ... returned Stock to the state penitentiary, probably Monday.
Source: newspapers

2. January 1, 1928* Suspension

Cause: Bank Specific Adverse Info
Cause Details: Bank discovered short about $18,000 and subsequent embezzlement by former banker; state took over in Jan 1928.
Newspaper Excerpt: The bank was short about $18,000 when taken over the state in January, 1928
Source: newspapers

Newspaper Articles (1)

1. June 22, 1929 Columbia Daily Tribune Columbia, MO

Article from Columbia Daily Tribune, June 22, 1929

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Article Text

Former Banker Gets Four More Years The Press Stocks, 35, former Malden banker must years the state result his plea of guilty in circuit court here late yesterday to two charges deposits the Dunklin County Bank at Malden was in failing condition. Stock was brought back to Attorney Billings filed habeas corpus proceeding the state supreme He was serving term on plea of guilty of bezzlement out bank's failure He returned here Thursday and called before Judge Walker yesterday. At first Stock entered plea not decided plead guilty to the that 21 other counts would dismissed He given two years on each of the counts. the sentences run conThe bank was short about $18,000 when taken over the state in January, 1928, according Billings Stock's wife nett and visited her hus band jall Sheriff Thomas Donaldson return Stock the state peniten tiary, probably Monday. Greater London has nearly many inhabitants gium There London and 7,875,000 in Belgium.