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A DIFFERENT BANK FAILURE FROM GENERAL RUN. Holly Springs Bank President Leaves $50,000 on Deposit For the Benefit of DepositorsHolly Springs, Miss., June 4. In the liquidation of the People's Bank here, State Bank Examiner S. S. Harris and his assistants found more than $200,000 on deposit and more than $70,000 worth of bank paper which the examiner would not approve, according to a statement made today by W. B. Bradberry, representative of Examiner Harris. It is stated that these figures may be changed some in a more complete audit, and Mr. Harris has employed experts from the auditing firm of Leatham & Co., of Memphis, to make a complete audit of the books of the bank from its organization to date. The auditors are working on the books day and night; and as soon as their report is complete a full statement of the bank's condition will be made. Mr. Bradberry says he is encouraged in the hope that the depositors will be paid in full, inasmuch as I. C. Levy, president of the defunct bank, has said that not one cent of the $50,000 or more which he and his family have on deposit will be drawn out until the depositors are paid in full. It is further stated that nothing has developed so far to indicate any shortage on the part of Cashier Will C. Neill, Jr., who committed suicide the day the bank closed. Bad loans, and loans nct sufficiently secured, are given by Mr. Bradberry as the cause for the bank's forced liquidation.