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BANK CLERK GIVES UP IN $100,000 SHORTAGE Memphis Man Returns on Hearing Assistant Cashier Had Committed Suicide. By the Associated Press. MEMPHIS, Tenn., December 9.Rush H. Parke, American Savings Bank clerk, who disappeared a week ago just before a shortage of approximately $100,000 was found in his accounts, surrendered to police today. He phoned J. F. Hunt and I. H. Wilson, bank examiners, and told them he wanted to surrender. The examiners had policement sent to him. Parke's disappearance was followed by the suicide of the assistant cashier of the bank. Clarence Henochsberg, who shot himself at his home Tuesday and the closing of the American Savings Bank came the same day. The institution is now in the hands of a receiver. Before he killed himself Henochsberg said he was short $300,000. and begged Abe Plough, Memphis capitalist, to replace the amount before it was discovered. Mr. Plough told Henochsberg that he would try to help him, but the banker shot himself before Plough could reach him. Whether there was any connection between the shortages is not known. Parke. acting on the advice of his attorney. refused to talk to newspaper men after his arrest. Parke is said to have told the officers who arrested him that he fled to New Orleans, returning to Memphis when he heard of the suicide of the assistant cashier.
