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NEWS OF PENNSYLVANIA HAD A SECRET DOOR. MAY BE MUURDER MYSTERY. Pittsburg (Special). - A secret Phoenixville (Special).-Searchers panel door leading from his private for Thomas Snyder, a resident of office enabled William Montgomery, Kimberton, a village near here, who cashier of the Allegheny National disappeared from his home on MonBank, to cover up his alleged defalday, unearthed another mystery in cations for many years, according to the finding of a body of an unknown William L. Fields, national bank exman in a dam in the French Creek, aminer, who has charge of the case. Not one of the hundreds of persons Mr. Fields declares Montgomery who viewed the body can give any worked with some employe of anclew to his identity and no papers other bank, presumably Henry Reibwere found in his clothes which er, the teller of the Farmers' Deposit would aid the authorities. National Bank. When the presence A short distance from the spot of the bank examiner would be anwhere the body was found the dead nounced, he says, Montgomery would man's hat was discovered on the side slip out through his panel door, hurof a steep railroad embankment, ry to the other and secure a temporwhich descends to the water's edge, ary loan sufficient to make good the An investigation by Deputy Cor. deficit. The money would be reoner Howell, of this place, has returned after the departure of the vealed that the man's death was not examiner. due to drowning. There are no The directors of the Allegheny marks of violence on the body and Bank met and deducted from their nothing save a vial containing a few surplus the sum of $469,000, the strychnine tablets was found on the amount Montgomery is charged with body. getting away with. It is probable The dead man was about 55 years that an assessment will be made of age, medium size, with light red against the stockholders of the instihair closely cut. His clothes were tution later on. As soon as the bank those of a workingman. opened a telegram was sent to the Seaboard National and the Park NaOCTOGENARIAN DIES. tional Banks, of New York, asking them to forward immediately $500,Coatesville (Special). - Richard 000 that the Allegheny National has Strode, one of the best-known busion deposit. The bank also secured all the cash it could get its hands on, ness men in this section, died in his and this was piled several feet high 84th year. on a big table in the center of the He was a descendant of the originbanking room. The immense sum al Scotch-Irish settlers of Pennsyl. could be seen from the street, and vania, and a brother of the late Rob. was sufficient in itself to prevent a run, although a run was at no time ert Wilson Strode, a Philadelphia threatened. contractor, and of James W. Strode, for many years master mechanic in It is declared here that Montgomcry did not profit to the extent of a the Elmira, N. Y., shops of the Pennsylvania Railroad. single cent. It is alleged that many Pittsburg business houses and manIn 1849 he bought a large tract ufacturers owe their existence to of land in this place and engaged in Montgomery who advanced them the lime burning and brick making money to keep them alive. When business. He served as burgess and as Councilman at various times and he attempted to get this money back, was the organizer of the branch of it is asserted, he found that the people whom he had favored were the Abolition party here. unable to give it to him. Today, Killed In Fall Downstairs. when it is too late, it is remarked that friends of Montgomery would Scranton (Special). Mrs J. V. raise $1,000,000 if necessary to get Titus, 92 years old, was found dead him out of his trouble. when her daughter returned from Montgomery appeared at a meetchurch. The aged woman had fallen ing of the bank directors. He was downstairs and had her neck broken. closely questioned but refused to adPatrick Finnerty was reading a pamit that any other person had anyper while sitting on the back porch thing to do with the robbery. In of his house and lost his balance and spite of this statement, however, fell down the stairs, a distance of there are persistent rumors that sevtwelve feet. He died in a few hours. eral prominent politicians are implicated. Miner Killed By Fall Of Coal. Because of the large number of peculations in Pittsburg banks ofMahanoy City (Special) -Charles ficials of the banks have adopted a Rolias was killed and Stiney Seykofsystem of shifting their employes. sky, Charles Smith and Charles ZenIn a number of the banks a man is man seriously hurt by the collapse allowed to remain in a position for of the roof in a gangway at Mahanoy a few months only, after which he City Colliery. Rolias was buried unIs transferred to some other departder several hundred tons of earth, ment. and the body has not vet been reach-
