15552. Carnegie Trust Company (New York, NY)

Bank Information

Episode Type: Run → Suspension → Closure
Bank Type: trust company
Start Date: January 7, 1911
Location: New York, New York (40.714, -74.006)

Metadata

Model: gpt-5-mini
Short Digest: 2cb17dcc

Response Measures

Full suspension, Books examined

Description

Contemporary reports (Jan 7-9, 1911) state a quiet run had been in progress for a week, after which State Superintendent O. H. Cheney took charge and closed the Carnegie Trust Company. A receiver was later appointed and the institution was liquidated. Cause of initial withdrawals is described as rumors linking Joseph (J.) G. Robin and related bank failures; underlying unsoundness and large unsecured loans are frequently mentioned. No evidence of a discrete false-communication event (random/mistaken telegram etc.).

Events (3)

1. January 7, 1911 Run

Cause: Rumor Or Misinformation
Cause Details: Quiet but determined run spurred by circulating rumors that J. G. Robin (connected with other failed banks) was heavily involved with the Carnegie Trust Company; publicity of his indictment and connection with other bank failures triggered withdrawals.
Measures: Bank officials appealed to the State banking department for protection; available ready resources were used up.
Newspaper Excerpt: Officials of the bank issued a statement saying there had been a quiet run in progress for the past week, and ready available resources had been used up.
Source: newspapers

2. January 7, 1911 Suspension

Cause: Government Action
Cause Details: State Superintendent of Banks took possession after examination concluded the company was in an unsound condition and unsafe to continue; action followed the run and depletion of ready resources.
Newspaper Excerpt: The Carnegie Trust company was closed today by State Bank Commissioner... Commissioner O. H. Cheney took charge of the property on the ground its condition was such that it was unsafe to continue business.
Source: newspapers

3. April 12, 1911 Receivership

Newspaper Excerpt: Payson Merrill was appointed receiver with bond at $100,000. An involuntary petition in bankruptcy was filed against William J. Cummins, president of the failed Carnegie Trust Company, now under indictment.
Source: newspapers

Newspaper Articles (24)

1. January 7, 1911 The Tacoma Times Tacoma, WA

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BANK BIG N. IS FORCED TO CLOSE CARNEGIE TRUST COMPANY CLOSED BY STATE COMMIS-SIONER-DEATH OF ORGANIZER MYSTERY. (By United Press Leased Wire.) NEW YORK, Jan. T.-The Carnegie Trust company was closed today by State Bank Commissioner Cheney. The company was charged in 1907 and had a paid up capital of a million dollars. Its surplus was $500,000, and its undivided profits aggregated $73,000. Its gross deposits amounted to $8,900,000. J. T .Powell, former president of the Fourth National Bank of Nashville, is president of the company. The officials of the bank issued a statement saying there had been a quiet run in progress for the past week, and ready available resources had been used up. It was said the state banking department had been asked to interfere to protect the depositors. Commissioner O. H. Cheney took charge of the property on the ground its condition was such that it was unsafe to continue business. The examination is not yet completed. Death a Mystery. The principal organizer of the Carnegie Trust company was Charles O. Dickinson, whose mysterious death of gas poisoning, which occurred May 24 at Scranton, Pa., never has been fully explained. The bank opened first in 1907. Before Dickinson's death the Louis Kleybolte company secured a court order for the examination of Dickinson, his brother, and Secretary Robert Morehead of the trust company, regarding a loan of $1,000,000 to P. J. Kieran, president of the Fidelity Funding : company, which had been put partly in the name of the Kleybolte company in order to avoid having such a large loan booked under Kieran's name. Dickinson died before the examination was made. Reports that Dickinson ended his life were denied by his friends and relatives. The mystery was never completely solved. Over $11,000,000 was involved in the closing of the bank. The last report, made November 10, shows assets of $11,170,000.

2. January 7, 1911 The Richmond Virginian Richmond, VA

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LOANS TOO LARGE TRUST CO. CLOSED Carnegie Concern Forced by Bank Examiner to Suspend Business LOOK INTO BOOKS SHOWS IT UNSOUND Institution Forced to Front by Dickinson, Whose Sensational Death in Office of Chemist, is Mystery NEW YORK, January 7.More Jian $11,000,000 is involved in the closing of the Carnegie Trust Company, the tast report of the institution to the State banking department, on November 10, 1910, showing total assets of $11,170,600, The Carnegie Trust Company. was a margin depository of the New York Cotton Exchange, but is said It had not received a large percentage of the business of the exchange lately. NEW YORK, Jan. 7.-The Carnegie Trust Company, one of the large fine ancial institutions in New York, was closed to-day by State Superintendent of Banks Cheney. The company was chartered in 1907 and had a paid-up capital of $1,500,000; surplus and undivided profits of $787,000 and gross deposits of about $8,200,000. j. T. Howell, formerly president of the Fourth National Bank, Nashville, Tenn., was presidene. Officials of the closed institution stated that there had been a quiet run on it for more than a week and that this had used up all of the available ready resources, so the State banking department was called on to interfere to protect the rank and file of the depositors. Condition Not Sound. O. H. Cheney, head of the banking department, issued the following statement: "Superintendent of banks has taken charge of the property and business of the Carnegie Trust Company. The examination of the affairs of this company has caused the superintendent to conclude that it is in an unsound condition to transact business, and that it is not safe for It to continue. "The examination is not yet complete and no further statement can be made at this time." Large Unsecured Loans. The late Charles C. Dickinson, whose mysterious death on May 24, 1910, following gas poisoning while witnessing a chemical demonstration in Seranton, Pa., has never been thoroughly solved. was one of the prime movers in founding the Carnegie Trust Company, which opened for business January 1, 1907. After the company had been doing business for a few months, Dickinson resigned in favor of Leslie M. Shaw, formerly secretary of the treasury. Dickinson remained as a vice-president and vire tually manager of the trust company. Shaw held the president's office only a few months and Dickinson was, res elected. Shaw's resignation was due, it is said, to politics, Dickinson alleging that the former secretary was beset with a "bee to become president of the United States." The Carnegie Trust Company grew under the aggressive policy of Dickinson. His management. however. eventually drew considerable criticism because of certain unsecured loans (Continued on Fourth Page.)

3. January 8, 1911 The Times Dispatch Richmond, VA

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Closing of Carnegie Trust Company Credited to Him. RUMORS CAUSE DETERMINED RUN Failure of Institution Brings Hardly a Ripple to Wall Street, as It Had Been Regarded as Shaky and a Nuisance for Several Year (Special to The Times-Dispatch.] New York, January T.-The State Banking Department took possession of the Carnegie Trust Company this morning and closed the doors of that Institution until Its tangled affairs shall be straightened out. Whether the company is solvent is not yet known, as no statement bearing on this phase of the matter could be obtained from O. S. Cheney, superintendent of the State Banking Department. In point of fact, the superintendent declined all 'day even to see newspaper men, nor could any of his deputies or examiners be induced to, utter a single word of information. Apparently the Immediate cause of the failure was based upon rumors In quiet circulation for two or three weeks that J. G. Robin, who is now in jail under indictment for wrecking the Northern Bank, Is heavily involved with the Carnegie Trust Company. These rumors resulted in a quiet but determined run on the bank. Heavy withdrawals were made without attracting public notice, until the total deposits were less than the legal reserve. The reserve prescribed by the law in the cases of all trust companies is 15 per cent. of deposits, exclusive of trust funds and other specified preferred deposits. The last statement of the company, issued November 10, 1910, showed total deposits of $8,896,752.42. Of this amount the preferred deposits of all kinds amounted to $4,765,380.39. The total of deposits, therefore, subject to the legal reserve law, were $4,191,City a Depositor. Among the bank's many depositors is the city of New York, with an account of $650,000. which Chamberlain Charles H. Hyde has managed to keep on its books. despite efforts of Comptroller Prendergast to reduce the amount. Finding himself unable to compel the chamberlain's office to protect the funds of the city, which at that time amounted to $1,000,000, the comptroller, early in July last, obtained IL guarantee from the directors of the bank to protect the city. This guarantee was delivered on October

4. January 9, 1911 The Detroit Times Detroit, MI

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Francis Walsh & Co., the of that institution. The cashof the Metropolitan says, however, that not more than $4,beionging to this institution was on deposit there. The People's State bank had a running account with the Carnegie Trust Co., making most of the Detroit collections for them. There was no money belonging to the People's State on deposit in the closed New York institution. NEW YORK, Jan. 9.-The Car Trust Co. was closed today by Superintendent of Banks eney. The company was chartered in and had a paid up capital OF 500,000; surplus and undivided ofits of $737,000, and gross deposits about $8,900,000. J. T. Howell was esident. H. Cheney, head of the state nking department, issued the folwing statement: "The superintendent of banks has charge of the property and siness of the Carnegie Trust Co. examination of the affairs of this mpany has caused the superintendto conclude that it is in an unund condition to transact business, that it is not safe for it to conThe examination is not yet comand no Aurther statement can be at this time." The late Charles C. Dickinson, whos vsterious death on May 24, 1910, folgas poisoning while witnessa chemical demonstration in ranton, Pa., has never been thorghly solved, was one of the prime in founding the Carnegie Co., which opened for business 1. 1907. After the company had doing business for a few months, ckinson resigned in favor of Leslie Shaw, formerly secretary of the easury. Dickinson remained as a e-president and virtually manager the trust company. Shaw held the esident's office only a few months Dickinson was re-elected. Shaw's resignation was due, it is to politics, Dickinson alleging former secretary was beset with a to become president of the States." The Carnegie Trust Co. grew under aggressive policy of Dickinson. management. however, eventually considerable criticism because certain unsecured loans made to P. Sheldon, President of the oenix Insurance Co., who died under lictment. It wah authoritatively that the Sheldom loans were ignificant in amount and that the company sustained no loss. short time before Dickinson's sterious death, Rudolph Kleybolte Co., got an order from the court the examination of Dickinson, his and Robert B. Moorehead, cretary of the Carnegie Trust Co., the matter of a loan of $1,000,000 to P. J. Keiran, of the Fidelity nding Co., which had been put partin the name of Kleybolte & Co., It alleged, in order to avoid having large a loan in the name of Keiran. Dickinson died of pneumonia and disease, it was said, but it was ther declared that the contributing of his death was the inhalation poisonous gases in F. W. Lange's oratory in Scranton, Pa. It was that Dickinson and others were witnessing the experiments of a emist on a non-corrosive metal, other stories were that Lange imed to be able to make silver or from baser metals. The mystery never cleared up, for the Scranchemists denied that any gas Dickhis inhaled had contributed tohis death. There were reports Dickinson had committed suicide, these reports were strenuously Some time before his death, con was thrown from his horse Central Park and his skull fracoseph G. Robin, the indicted ecker of the Northern bank, was lirectly responsible for the closing the Carnegie Trust. He was one of original directors of the Carnegie was forced out two years ago. fact that Robin had been connectwith the institution, however, startthe run that caused the suspensouthern brokers and financiers Georgia Tennessee. Mississippi

5. January 10, 1911 Evening Journal Wilmington, DE

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been after it ever since it was reorganized from the old Van Norden Trust Company. How He Will Pay For Them. To pay for the three institutions it is expected Morgan will increase the stock of the Equitable Trust Company and exchange it for the outstanding shares of three companies, making the actual cost to Morgan personally only about what the engravers' bill will be who furnishes the new stock. The $20,000,000 of assets of the three concerns which were in danger will add materially to the attractiveness of the Equitable Trust Company's balance sheets hereafter, in the opinion of financial experts, who have watched the present situation. Normal conditions prevailed at all of the banks today, the slight run on the Nineteenth and Twelfth Ward Banks and the Madison Trust Company, which prevailed yesterday not being renewed. It was stated by State Superintendent of Banks Cheney today that the affairs of the Carnegie Trust Company will be liquidated at once and no attempt will be made to put the institution in shape to continue business.

6. January 20, 1911 The Lake County Times Hammond, IN

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The failure of the Carnegie Trust Company has caused a slight run on some of the New York City banks, and a curious state of affairs has developed. Depositors in three of the banks whose officers were interested in the Carnegie Trust Company have stood in line waiting to withdraw

7. March 25, 1911 The L'anse Sentinel L'anse, MI

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The movement for a "Sane Fourth" has put the largest manufacturer of fireworks out of busines. The Pain Manufacturing company, a $50,000 corporation of New York, applied to Supreme Court Justice Guy for leave to dissolve and assigned this reason as cause for the proposal. In the crop growing pennant race of 1910 Iowa wrested from Illinois first place in the production of oats, California took from Minnesota the honors for the production of barley, and New York secured the hay growing title from Iowa, according to an announcement made by the department of ag. riculture. ... At the Carnegie Trust company inquiry before the grand jury in New York city it was stated that Andrew Carnegie would lose $800,000 by the forgery of an official in the wrecked bank. ... Judge Frank Gorman of the court of common pleas at Cincinnati dismissed the contempt charges against George B. Cox, banker and political leader. He declared the utterances by Cox, which were published after the politician's indictment for perjury, were "insolent and false." ... The uprising in Mexico has spread to the states of Coahuila and Morelos, according to advices received by the revolution agents. The uprising in Morelos is of formidable proportions. The center of the trouble in the northern section of Mexico heretofore has been the states of Chibuahua, Lower California and Sonora. Miss Susan G. McComber, a $19-aweek bookkeeper, fort. two years old, has admitted robbing the John Lane Publishing company of New York, her employers, of $9,000, solely, she said, to maintain her aged parents in a comfortable home. ... A gale caused the collapse of the walls of the burned J. H. Fall building at Nashville, Tenn., burying beneath a carload of debris insurance men, contractors and laborers to the number of 30, and of this number 12 dead were taken out and as many more injured. Miss Helen Zander, daughter of a Kalamazoo (Mich.) resident, lies at her home in a serious condition as the result of injuries received in being initiated into the Gamma Delta Tau sorority. ... Half a hundred persons, a majority of them children under twelve years of age, went through thin ice to their death in New England and the maritime provinces of Canada in the winter just closing. The Kalamazoo (Mich.) Commercial club has given impetus to a movement to erect a $50,000 statue of ex-Senator Julius Caesar Burrows at Milham park, Kalamazoo. ... Frank Clavansky, a well-known acrobat and vaudeville performer, who fractured his spinal column in a fall while performing a trapeze act at a New York theater, died in the Harlem (N. Y.) hospital. The Utah state senate adopted a memorial to congress protesting against certain features of the Canadian reciprocity treaty. It had been adopted previously by the house

8. March 27, 1911 The Sun New York, NY

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loan in city bonds obtained from the Northern Bank. The Grand Jury doesn't want to deal harshly with the official in question. Many persons have come forward to speak as to his good character and to say that he was used by others. Furthermore. the District Attorney believes that the official will not be unwilling to clear up certain points that the Grand Jury considers essential. Bank Superintendent O. H. Cheney will return to-morrow from Colorado. While he has been away Receiver Egbert and Lawyer Hartfield. in charge of the collection of money due the Carnegie and of liquidating assets, have made considerable progress. It is understood now that the deficit will be under $2,000,000. The receiver is negotiating for the sale of the South Shore Traction franchise and the Morris Park property held by the Fidelity Development Company.

9. March 31, 1911 The Citizen Honesdale, PA

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by the Grand Jury or falsifying a institution monthly report of dated August 31, 19 He pleaded for trial unnot guilty and was e bond was der $10,000 bail. furnished by a sur company. Like his associa William J. Cummins, Reichma through his attorney, Stephen Baldwin, took ht to withdraw advantage of his the plea of guilty. The date for the final pleading was set for April 10. It is understood that in the meantime a motion will be made to the court for permission to inspect the minutes of the Grand Jury which step will be vigorously contested by District Attorney Whitman. This indictment charges a misdemeanor. In asking that bail be fixed at $10,000 the District Attorney stated in open court that the present charge was but a fore runner of further action that might be expected from the Grand Jury against Reichmann. The Reichmann indictment was only an incident in the day's developments, which now not only involve a high city official and officers of the Carnegie Trust Company, not yet named, but the State Banking Department as well. The name of Andrew Carnegie, the iron master, was again brought into prominent, notice by a formal demand from George L. Dyer for the return of 8,000 shares of the capital stock of the Platt Iron Works, of Dayton, Ohio, a Cummins enterprise, of which Joseph R. Reichmann was President. This stock Mr. Carnegie received from the trust company in January, 1910, for a loan of $2,100,000. The loan was made to save the Carnegie Trust Company after the run that followed the collapse of the Hocking Valley pool. Mr. Dyer claims that Independent Fertilizer stock was substituted for Platt Iron stock. Subsequently the Platt Iron stock was turned over to Mr. Carnegie as collateral for his loan. At a late hour last night Mr. Whitman was in conference with Former Governor Frank Black with a view to making final arrangements for assisting in the prosecution of the Reichmann-Cummins crowd. Up to the time of the conference Mr. Black had not given his consent to enter the case.

10. April 10, 1911 New-York Tribune New York, NY

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Says City Has Lost Nothing. Perhaps the first thing the public would like to know is that, notwithstanding all the talk, not a dollar of the city's money has been lost and not a dollar is in jeopardy. The first of the many statements that have been fed to the public to connect me with alleged improper transactions is a fair sample of all or most of it. In that statement the press bureau which has been busily engaged in endeavoring to poison the public mind spread out far and wide the story that 1 Kent a balance in the Northern Bank of over $1,000,000. From this it was implied or insinuated that there must have been a corrupt understanding with some one. This fairly illustrates the sort of "evidence" upon which I am being assailed. The facts are as follows: The designation of the Northern Bank as a city depository was made long before my term of office began. The selection of the Bronx branch of that bank as the depository to receive Bronx revenues was made at the request of Controller Prendergast, who had been a director of that bank until shortly before he took office. Mr. Wolfe. the chief auditor in the Controller's office. was also vice-president until he took office, Janary 1. 1910. The circumstances of this selection have already been publicly stated and are well known. It is true that on October 31. 1910. late at night, the receiver of taxes (an appointee of the Controller) deposited the tax receipts for that day, amounting to about $887,000. in the Northern Bank, but it is also true that $900,000 was withdrawn by my deputy the next morning, leaving the bank's balance at the normal amount about $188,000. Yet the public is wilfully led to believe that I kent $1,000,000 there. to be loaned to friends. Could anything be any more diabolical? Coming then to a discussion of the relations of his office with the Cummins syndicate, which was in control of the Carnegie Trust Company before that institution went into the hands of the State Banking Department Mr. Hyde says in effect that the only basis for any question was the story of Robin. The coincidence of loans by some nineteen banks and trust companies to the Cummins syndicate at or very near the time when those nineteen institutions received augmented deposits of city money is "suddenly discovered," says Mr. Hyde. and this syndicate was composed of men "who were supposed to have my friendship." His statement continues With Robin's story as a basis, it is suddenly discovered that a syndicate or assoContinued on second Daza.

11. April 12, 1911 The Daily Telegram Clarksburg, WV

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According to Petition Filed in Court by Three of the Creditors. ASSETS VERY SMALL Receiver is Appointed for Official's of Failed Trust Company. NEW YORK, April 12-An Involuntary petition in bankruptoy was filed here today against William J. Cummins, president of the failed Carnegie Trust Company, now under indictment. His liabilities are given as $5,000,000 and assets as $400,000. Payson Merrill was appointed receiver with bond at $100,000. Two other petitions in bankruptcy were filed against Charles Arthur Moore, Jr., a director of the Carnegie Trust Company, and Martin J. Condon, also a director. The Nabilities of Moore are give. as $2,000,000 and his assets as $100,000, and Condon's liabilities are $6,500,000. and assets $500,000. The three petitioning creditors allege preferential payments and transfers of property while insolvent. It is said that Cummins is no win Nashville, Tenn. The actions were not brought against the respondents as directors in the Carneie Trust Company, but as individuals. The Carneigie Trust Company and Long and Edge failures were thrust over the precipice by the failure and indictment of Joseph G. Robin.

12. April 13, 1911 The Clarksburg Telegram Clarksburg, WV

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According to Petition Filed in Court by Three of the Creditors. ASSETS VERY SMALL Receiver is Appointed for Officials of Failed Trust Company. NEW YORK, April 12-An involuntary petition in bankruptcy was filed here today against William J. Cummins, president of the failed Carnegie Trust Company, now under indictment. His liabilities are given as $5,000,000 and assets as $400,000. Payson Merrill was appointede receiver with bond at $100,000. Two other petitions in bankruptcy were filed against Charles Arthur Moore, Jr., a director of the Carnegie Trust Company, and Martin J. Condon, also a director. The liabilities of Moore are given as $2,000,000 and his assets as $100,000, and Condon's liabilities are $6,500,000, and assets $500,000. The three petitioning creditors allege preferential payments and transfers of property while insolvent. It is said that Cummins is no win Nashville, Tenn. The actions were not brought against the respondents as directors in the Carneie Trust Company, but as individuals. The Carnelgie Trust Company and Long and Edge failures were thrust over the precipice by the failure and indictment of Joseph G. Robin.

13. April 13, 1911 Pine Bluff Daily Graphic Pine Bluff, AR

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Three Involuntary Petitions Which Aggregates $13,500,000 Filed in New York MERRILL IS RECEIVER Big Creditors Listed-Action Not Against Respondents as Directors of Carnegie Trust. New York, April 12.-Three involuntary petitions in bankruptcy aggregating $13,500,000 were filed here today against three officers of the failed Carnegie Trust Company, now la the hands of the State superintendent of basks The respondents are William J. Cummins, president of the trust company, and Charles Arthur Moore Jr, and Martin J. Condon, directors. Their financial status is given in the petition as: Cummins liabilities $5,000,000 and his assets are $400,oco; Moore liabilities $2,000,000 and assets $100,000 and Condon liabilities $6,500,000 and assets, $500,000. Payson Merrill was named receiver for all three under bonds of $100,000. Only three petitioning creditors ara named, which is all the law requires. Their lawyers said that nrany more are associated with them. The cred_ itors who appear are Herrmann C. Brewster, $30,000; Herbert Hatfield, $9,644, and Jas S. Watson, $80,000 all for money loaned. They allege in their petitions against Cummins that preferential payments have been made since he became insolvent and likewise there has been concealment of considerable property with intent to hinder and defraud creditors. The actions were not brought against the respondents as directors of the Carnegie Trust Company, but as individuals. The Carnegie Trust Company, long on the edge of failure, was thrust over I've precipice by the failure and indictment of Joseph G. Ro pan, president of the Washington Savings Bank, and an of. ficial closely connected with the Northern Bank of New York, which also failed. The publication of proceedings taken by the state banking department against those two banks showed that Robin, who had formerly been a director of the Carnegie Trust Company, had given it his paper for large amounts even fter his resigna tion, and the mere shadow of at and name was sufficient to oring run which the bank could not withstand.

14. April 16, 1911 New-York Tribune New York, NY

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Another overheard snatch-merely a hint-refers to the eighty-six mahogany desks, the million-odd envelopes and the 25,263 lead pencils, which were counted in by the receivers among the assets of the trust company. Figuring on forbearance loans uses up pencils fast. Those "forbearance loans" made an interesting fragment in themselves. A forbearance loan is made in this manner: A man or a concern who is friendly with the officers of a banking institution (if such another banking institution as the Carnegie still exists), makes a draft on some firm or individual in a city at a considerable distance from New York. There is no intention of collecting the draft from the person on whom it is drawn, so there is no need that he should owe any of the parties a cent, and usually, it is said, he does not. The draft goes to the bank and passes through the regular course of all well behaved drafts, until it has been entered on the books of the bank to the credit of the needy firm or individual who made it, so that its amount may be drawn out by check. Then the draft itself-the written paper-is taken in and laid on the desk of one of the friendly officers of the bank. He slips it into an envelope and, instead of sending it West for collection, drops it into a pigeon hole. When the man or the firm who made it is ready to return the money, the need for "forbearance" being safely past, he takes the money to the friendly official, who uses it to pay the draft.

15. April 16, 1911 New-York Tribune New York, NY

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# C. A. MOORE. JR., LEAVES ROME. Rome, April 15. - Charles Arthur Moore, jr., a director of the suspended Carnegie Trust Company, of New York, and against whom an involuntary petition in bankruptcy was filed recently, left here last Thursday for the north of Italy. It is believed he is on his way to America.

16. April 26, 1911 Daily Kennebec Journal Augusta, ME

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Before Grand Jury on Defunct Carnegie Trust Co. Testimony Said to Contradict Rumors of Aiding Bank. Robin Suggests That if Free He Could Work Some Wonders. New York, April 25.--Andrew Carnegie testified today before the grand jury as to his relations with the now defunct Carnegie Trust Co. In the collapse of the institution, it is said, that vast sums of money which Mr. Carnegie loaned it have been tied up and it is believed that during the hour and 10 minutes when he was before the grand jury late today, re related some details of these loans and was asked to what extent he had promised further aid. He was questioned in connection with the prnted but unconfirmed statements that state banking department officials had hesitated to close the Trust Company when they first learned of the impairment of its capital, because of an understanding that Mr. Carnegie would see the institution safely through as a matter of personal sentiment. It is understood that Mr. Carnegie in his testimony today was in contradetion of rumors that he had made any such promises. Counsel for Joseph G. Robin, convicted of larcenies which brought about the failure of the string of banks which included the Carnegie Trust Co., and who is to appear for sentence next Thursday, told the district attorney today that if his client were allowed his freedom on a suspended sentence he believes he would rehabilitate several of the banks which he had helped to wreck, and thereby save the money of depositors. Answers in the bankruptcy proceedings instituted against William C. Cummings, Martin J. Condon and Charles A. Moore, Jr., three directors of the suspended Carnegie Trust Company, were filed today in the federal court. ] Condon says he cannot truthfully deny that he is insolvent and asks the court to adjudge him a bankrupt. An\ swers in the cases of Moore and Cummins were filed by a trust company, \ which stated that it had no information as to alleged insolvencies or that ( the petitioners have favorable claims.

17. June 17, 1911 Omaha Daily Bee Omaha, NE

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# LESSONS IN CROOKED BANKING System by Which a New York Financier Got Away with the Money. The strange ins and outs of high finance as they are displayed in the narrative of the collapse of the Carnegie Trust company of New York are detailed in an article in Hampton's by Frank Parker Stockbridge. Equally interesting are the life stories of some of the men concerned in that huge failure. Of Robin, the immigrant who became a powerful banker, Mr. Stockbridge says: Deposits accumulated in Robin's Northwestern bank, where he was chairman of the executive committee, until more than $8,000,000, mostly the funds of small tradesmen doing business in Harlem and the Bronx, were in its coffers. His Riverside bank was prosperous. People were flocking to put their money into his Washington Savings bank and he began to look around for other ways of getting the money. He got into the Fidelity Development company, a real estate concern which owned the old Morris Park race track, and soon controlled it. He acquired control of the Bankers' Realty and Surety company. To carry out his schemes he needed a title insurance company. The Aetna Indemnity company of Hartford, which had formerly been one of Fritz Heinze's concerns, owned the Title and Guaranty company of Rochester. Robin bought control of the Aetna and from it purchased the Rochester concern. The savings bank could lend money on the real estate owned by the realty companies. The Title and Guaranty company could guarantee the mortgages to satisfy the bank examiners, and the two commercial banks could lend money on the capital stock of any of the other companies or of each other. With all these institutions under his control Robin could take money out as fast as the public put it in. His personal tastes were luxurious, even oriental. He established himself in luxurious apartments, gorgeously furnished, in an expensive house in Gramercy park. Like other players in the big game, he wanted a country place. He built a magnificent mansion at Wading River, Long Island. One of the important details of "Driftwood Manor," as called his place, was its well-stocked wine cellar. Robin entertained house parties of kindred spirits, men and women. The residents of the little village of Wading River talk of the things that went on at these house parties. They tell stories of the "Snow Waltz," in which, after a night of revelry, the dancers would whirl out through the open door and, regardless of low necks and thin slippers, would finish their dance on the snow-covered verandas. Other tales are of a summer sport of a somewhat similar nature in which the pond near the house took the place of the veranda. No matter how fast the money came in, Robin always needed more. There was no end to his schemes and for the most part they were good and perfectly legitimate schemes. He conceived the idea, for example, of running a trolley line across the new Queensborough bridge and through Long Island City to Jamaica. Such a line would tap a large, undeveloped section of Long Island and be of real public service. He obtained a franchise for this line, including the only available route to Jamaica. He organized the South Shore Railroad

18. November 24, 1911 The Topeka State Journal Topeka, KS

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# CUMMINS SENTENCED Convicted Banker Must Serve From Four to Eight Years. New York, Nov. 24.-William J. Cummins, the Nashville, Tenn., banker and the head of the suspended Carnegie Trust company of this city, recently convicted of the theft of $140,000 from the trust fund held by the Carnegie company, today was sentenced by Justice Davis in the supreme court to an indeterminate term in the state prison of from four years and eight months to eight years and eight months.

19. November 24, 1911 The Evening Times Grand Forks, ND

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# CUMMINGS GOT # SENTENCE TODAY Order to Stay the Execution Granted to Defendant by Another Justice New York, Nov. 24.-William J. Cummins, the Nashville, Tenn., bank-er, head of the suspended Carnegie Trust company of this city, recently convicted of the theft of $140,000 from the trust funds held by the Carnegie company, was today sentenced by Justice Davis in the supreme court to an indeterminate term in state prison of from four years and eighteen months to eight years and eight months. Immediate!" after sentence was passed counsel for Cummins moved for an arrest of judgment pending an appeal. The motio: was denied. The defendant's counsel then went before Justice Seabury of the supreme court and obtained an order directing the district attorney to show cause why a certificate of reasonable doubt should not issue. The order is returnable Monday.

20. January 10, 1912 Tonopah Daily Bonanza Tonopah, NV

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THIEVING BANKER PROMISES TO PAY DOLLAR-FOR-DOLLAR CONVICTED OFFICIAL OF DEFUNCT COMPANY ISSUES A STATEMENT. NASHVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 10.William J. Cummins, convicted in New York of grand larceny in connection with the failure of the Carnegie Trust company, but now in Nashville, trying to clear up some of his financial matters, yesterday gave out a statement in which he said the Carnegie Trust company would pay out dollar for dollar. "I never intend to quit until my friends and the public know that I was the victim of circumstances, controlled entirely by two elemen - Wall street and politics," he declared. Cummins was accompanied here by E. Wright Wilson, a New York lawyer. "We owned over $5,000,000 bank stocks which cost us that amount of money," said Cummins, "and in addition owned $5,000,000 industrial stocks. The statement that my real 0 estate in Tennessee was mortgaged for $29,000 is false. There never was but $15,000 mortgage, and this has been paid by the receiver in charge, so there is now no mor gage at all." He said the schedule showing $4.000,000 liabilities did not state tha over half of that amount was ow to Andrew Carnegie and that Mr. Carnegie was secured by the st held as collateral.

21. November 12, 1912 The Topeka State Journal Topeka, KS

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# TO BUILD A STUBBS ROAD SOON. Cherryvale, Oklahoma & Texas Planned by Kansas Governor. Oklahoma City, Okla., Nov. 12.-As a result of the decision of Judge Pollock in the federal court, giving judgment to the promoters of the Cherryvale, Oklahoma & Texas railroad, against its French financial agents for $480,000, claimed to have been fraudulently withheld, it is announced by President Porter and General Manager Brewster that work on the road will be resumed in the near future. The original plans for the road were made many years ago by Senator Porter and W. R. Stubbs, now governor of Kansas, who was defeated last week for the United States senate. The line was to run from Caney, Kansas, to El Paso, with a branch southeast from Caney into Arkansas. Failing to get the requisite financial backing in this country, Porter went to France and, after many difficulties, arranged for the sale of the bonds of his road. He returned and commenced construction work, completing the Arkansas branch most of the way from Caney to Nowata, Okla. Then the Carnegie Trust company of New York, trustee for the French bankers, suspended and tied up the work for some time. After its affairs were straightened out, it was found that the Paris

22. November 20, 1912 The Bridgeport Evening Farmer Bridgeport, CT

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TRIAL OF HYDE FOR FORCING BANK LOANS BEGINS New York, Nov. 20-After a delay of more than a year. the trial of Charles Hiram Hyde, former city chamberlain, charged with having used his office to force loans from the Northern bank to the Carnegie Trust Co., before the latter concern went into the hands of a receiver, began before Jastice Goff in the supreme court, today. The indictment alleges that Hyde compelled Joseph D. Robin, then president of the Northern bank, to loan $100,000 to the Carnegie Trust Co., on Aug. 22, 1910. In return for this, Hyde made the Northern a depository. As soon as the trial was moved by District Attorney Whitman, John B. Stanchfield, of counsel for Hyde, moved that the indictment be dismissed on the ground that the court had no jurisdiction. The motion was promptly deniea and the selection of a jury from the special panel of 30 was begun. Hyde is being defended by Stanchfield and Max D. Steur, while Diatrict Attorney# Whitman, Chief Amistant Frank Moss and John K Clark a in charge of the prosecution,

23. October 30, 1913 The Wallace Miner Wallace, Kellogg, ID

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# Golden Chest—Its Probable Working. For some time letters have been received here that the negotiations for the lease of the Golden Chest property were approaching a successful issue. The stumbling block in the way of an earlier termination of the efforts to secure the property were due to the unsettled condition of the estate of Morris Hayman, the former president of the company, who committed suicide at the time the Carnegie Trust Company of New York closed its doors. Another prominent member of the company subsequently died in Pennsylvania, and his estate is also unsettled, yet it is said terms have been made with the administrators. Once this property is started again under real mining management the gloom around Murray will disappear, and life and good cheer will follow very quickly. The Golden Chest main tunnel is in 3500 feet. It follows the ledge, which runs north and south, the entire distance, and allows stop-ing ground to an elevation of 1100 feet at the breast. The surface all along the line of the tunnel was worked from 1884 until about three years ago, and very nearly a million dollars was extracted in gold from the three properties now embraced in the company's holdings, the Katy and Dora, the Golden Chest and the Idaho. Much of the surface quartz was very rich, and many chainbers of quartz fairly glittered with yellow metal. But as depth was attained the free-milling nature of the quartz practically dissapeared, and concentration became necessary to hold the baser values. The company has a fine 20-stamp mill, with steam and water power, though the flume for the latter is now a wreck; also a number of vanners and Wilfleys. Under proper management the mines of this private combination should be a steady producer, and when in full play give employment to from 50 to 75 men.

24. November 7, 1915 New-York Tribune New York, NY

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# 73, HAS 2 WIVES; # OWES $200,000 Member of Alimony Club, Penniless. Wins Free- dom by Plea. # MARITAL TROUBLES # COMPLETED HIS RUIN Aged Man. Once Rich, by Error Committed Bigamy-First Spouse Put Him in Jail. "And now, at the age of seventy- three. I find myself more than $200.000 in debt and in jail." The foregoing was part of the plea of Samuel B. Wellington to the Supreme Court for release from Ludlow Street Jail, where he was committed on the charge of Mrs. Maude W. Wellington that he owned her $705 back alimony. Wellington, who has more than his share of matrimonial and financial troubles, has just been released on the order of Justice Greenbaum after serv- ing four months and fourteen days. He made his plea under Section 775 of the judiciary laws, which provides that a man shall not be held in jail who can prove he is unable to pay the owing alimony and is not guilty of a wilful contempt of court. This section has only recently become known to mem- bers of the Alimony Club through a similar release a few weeks ago and is going to prove popular with them. Wellington, who was formerly vice- president of the Bailey Gold Mining and Milling Company, said that he has been bankrupted by his wife, with whom he lived only two days after he married her in 1897. Since then he has been a victim of the failure of the Carnegie Trust Company, lost $70.000 in stock speculations in the panic of 1907, and