17555. City Bank (Lorain, OH)

Bank Information

Episode Type
Run Only
Bank Type
state
Start Date
July 13, 1910
Location
Lorain, Ohio (41.453, -82.182)

Metadata

Model
gpt-5-mini
Short Digest
dfbfc92b

Response Measures

Accommodated withdrawals

Description

A short-lived run occurred after the cashier (Crisp) committed suicide. The run lasted only a few hours, demands were met, other local banks aided, and the bank did not suspend — fits 'run_only'.

Events (1)

1. July 13, 1910 Run
Cause
Bank Specific Adverse Info
Cause Details
Run triggered by the suicide of the bank's cashier, which alarmed depositors.
Measures
President issued a statement that affairs were sound; other city banks stood ready with money to help payment; demands were met and run ceased.
Newspaper Excerpt
The threatened run on the City bank, following the suicide of Cashier Crisp, took place a few days ago, and about 100 depositors, mostly foreigners, withdrew their savings. ... The run ceased at noon after all demands had been met.
Source
newspapers

Newspaper Articles (2)

Article from Daily Kennebec Journal, July 14, 1910

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Article Text

RUN ON OHIO BANK, Started By Cashier's Suicide, Lasted But Few Hours. Lorain, Ohio, July 13.-The threatened run on the City bank, following the suicide of Cashier Crisp, took place a few days ago, and about 100 depositors, mostly foreigners, withdrew their savings. President Fell issued a statement saying the affairs of the bank were nowise affected by the suicide of its cashier, and that no shortage existed. Other banks in the city stood ready with money to help the payment. The run ceased at noon after all demands had been met.


Article from Perrysburg Journal, July 15, 1910

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Article Text

Condensed News Urbana.-Henry Leonard, 14, son Capt. and Mrs. George W. Leonar and Hamilton Ring, 14, son of ney and Mrs. Will Ring, were electr cuted on the grounds of the Urbar Chautauqua, now in session. Tiffin.-L. E. Wharton, of Garret o a '8 B uo conductor "puI freight, fell 30 feet to the bottom a creek as he was attempting to his train. He died four hours later. Tiffin.-The Sun Oil Co. has drille in a well on the W. H. Baker two miles north of Tiffin, which S flowed continuously at the rate of barrels an hour. It is the largest ever struck in this section of a state. D Xenia.-John R. Malloy, of Colur bus, engrossing clerk of the Ohio e ate, was elected president of the u clation of Former ex-Pupils of J Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphan home, to succeed Fred W. Benjami a JO u in pleaded guilty before Judge W. Barnum to cutting with intent to ai was sentenced to one year in the A itentiary. She attempted the life 'I Humane Agent Joseph Williams II her child had been taken from her. Hamilton.-Next Saturday will 71 'I the initial trip of the big passeng balloon, the "Drifter," which was 71 in Cincinnati by Albert Holz and 13 -t ter C. Collins for the purpose of u tablishing a regular series of ballo trips twice a week from that city. JO Tiffin.-When William W. Sheible P a well-known insurance man, Ó home from a three-month trip aboa e. instead of receiving a loving greetir s: from his wife he was met by the iff, who served him with a summo o: in a divorce suit, alleging non-suppo S Lorain-The threatened run on u City bank, following the suicide 8 Cashier Crisp, took place, and S1 100 depositors, mostly foreigner 0 withdrew their savings. Other a in the city stood ready with money help the payment. The run after all demands had been met. Lima,-After detectives had to locate any money upon his È James Burke, an alleged pickpock was seized with a spell of coughi and spat a twenty-dollar-bill which -p had secreted in his mouth. Burke I accused of robbing Max Lukhoff. uj was held to the grand jury. & Canton.-After a conference of -A cials it was decided to postpone 71 trial of Katherine Manz, charged 'A murdering her sister by poison, Su the next term of court, which n. next fall. It was also decided to pu Cletus Willaman, charged with murder of Mr. and DII Koons, August 15. ue Hamilton.-Rev. H. Nevin Kerst, pe the First Reformed church, e. the police that the church had SI burglarized for the second time in ST past year. Desks and drawers pried open in a search for money, -0 none was found. Burglars also to tered the house of Mrs. A. Golchwa 'g but were frightened away. uo Columbus.-Lying on the banks '2 the Scioto river at the city's stora g dam, fishermen found the body of et murdered man. His skull had pt crushed with a club. His rifled 11ets told the story. in a memorandu st book was a card showing the 11 to be J. B. Gillette, a retired Φ of the Railway Trainmen's union. f. Cleveland.-Patrick Calhoun, ed in San Francisco on 14 charges bribing city officials to secure chises for the United States Railw 'A Co., of which he is president, is ing to make Cleveland his home. III houn owns many acres of Heights property. Years ago he gan construction there of a mansi per to cost $300,000.