Bank of Niles (Niles, MI)

Episode Information

Episode UID
3714264691177
Episode Type
Suspension → Closure
Bank Type
state
Bank ID
371426469 hash
Start Date
January 1, 1898*
Location
Niles, Michigan (41.830, -86.254)

Metadata

Model
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Short Digest
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Response Measures

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Description

The articles describe a 1912 trial involving the receiver of the Bank of Niles, which failed years earlier (c. 1898) following the disappearance of its cashier.

Events (2)
1. January 1, 1898* Suspension
Cause
Bank Specific Adverse Info
Cause Details
Disappearance of the bank cashier, George A. Kimmel, in 1898.
Newspaper Excerpt
George A. Kimmel, bank cashier, missing thirteen years... suit was filed by a receiver of a Niles, Mich., bank
Source
newspapers
2. February 6, 1912 Receivership
Newspaper Excerpt
The suit was filed by a receiver of a Niles, Mich., bank against an surance company of New York.
Source
newspapers

Newspaper Articles (4)
1. February 9, 1912 The Snyder Signal Snyder, TX
Article from The Snyder Signal, February 9, 1912

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Article Text

FIGHT ON MAN'S IDENTITY Insurance Company Claims Defendant is Missing Cashier-Bank Says He Is Dead. ST. LOUIS, Feb. 6.-The third trial of the insurance case in which George A. Kimmel, bank cashier, missing thirteen years, and the Identity of Andrew White, former conviet, are involved, began today in the Federal district court. The suit was filed by a receiver of a Niles, Mich., bank against an surance company of New York. Waite company contends that White is Kimmel. Mrs. Stelia Kimmel, mother and Mrs. Ada Bonslet, sister of Kimmel.

2. February 13, 1912 Omaha Daily Bee Omaha, NE
Article from Omaha Daily Bee, February 13, 1912

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Article Text

Cross-Examination Fails to Confuse Kimmel Witness ST. LOUIS, Mo., Feb. 12-Direct crossexamination of John B. Swinney was completed today in the Kimmel mystery case in the United States district court in which the Identity of Andrew J. White, former convict, who claims to be George A. Kimmel, and Kimmel's Insurance are involved. Attorneys for the receiver for the bank of Niles. Mich, immediately began a redirect examination. Swinney's testimony apparently was not shaken by the crossexamination by attorneys for the insurance company. which consumed six hours. He was made to repeat almost all of his deposition taken two months ago, apparently with the object of confusing him in the matter of dates. Andrew J. White was not in court today. Attorneys who have him in charge are keeping him secreted In a hotel so that they can have him any time they want to put him on the witness stand. Mrs. Kimmel. mother of the missing banker, who will be a witness for the bank, is resting in a private home l'ecuperating from a slight illness which was brought on by attending the trial.

3. February 16, 1912 The Norfolk Weekly News-Journal Norfolk, NE
Article from The Norfolk Weekly News-Journal, February 16, 1912

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Article Text

Swinney's Testimony Ends. St. Louis, Feb. 13.-Direct cross-examination of John B. Swinney was completed in the Kimmel mystery case in the United States district court in which the identity of Andrew J. White, former convict who claims to be George A. Kimmel, and Kimmel's insurance are involved. Attorneys for the receiver of the bank of Niles, Mich., immediately began a redirect examination.

4. February 17, 1912 El Paso Herald El Paso, TX
Article from El Paso Herald, February 17, 1912

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# KIMMEL'S FATHER # DENIES HE IS DEAD Declares in Deposition that White Had Not Claimed to Be His Son. St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 17. -The reading of the deposition of Henry T. Kimmel, father of George A. Kimmel, who disapeared in Arkansas City., Kan., is 1898, closed the plaintiff's side in the suit for the receiver of the Bank of Niles, Mich., against an insurance company for the insurance of Kimmel. The father, who has not lived with his wife for 39 years and has not been east of Chicago in that time, deposed that he was not dead as the claimant, Andrew J. White, had claimed, and that he had not heard from anyone who claimed to be his son. Mrs. Estelle Kimmel, the mother of the missing man, underwent a severe cross-examination soon after the opening of court. Her direct testimony was not shaken. R. M. Snyder jr., of Kansas City, was the first witness for the defence. He was prepared, the defence announced, to attack the testimony of John B. Swinney, who previously testified that R.p M. Snyder sr. and he were present when Kimmel was killed in Oregon. Kimmel, if living, would be 45 years old today. He was 31 years old when he disappeared. While Snyder was testifying, attorney Wickersham and solicitor general Lehmann entered the court room and sat with judge Amidon. The visitors said they had come merely out of curiosity. Snyder identified the signature of his