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Suspension Temporarily Pending Verification of Cashier's Defalcations Depositors and Directors Confident Bank Will Weather Crisis. WUNDER IN CONFESSION Admits Using $36,166 to Speculate in Oil—Eight Depositors Hit. The McCausland Savings bank of McCausland, Iowa, 20 miles north of Davenport, looted of approximately $36,000 by Robert Wunder, cashier, who is under arrest on a charge of embezzlement, was closed temporarily today by J. A. Heng, of Davenport, district bank examiner, pending an investigation and a verification of the cashier's shortage. "It will take some little time to check over the accounts and books," Mr. Heng said. "We want to find out first just how much money Wunder is short. He has made a number of conflicting statements in which he fixed the amounts as low as $17,000. "The bank is closed temporarily in order to give us an opportunity to go over all the accounts. The depositors have made no demands for their money and no one has called at the bank this morning. There is a feeling among the bank officials and the depositors that the bank will weather the trouble and reopen later." The bank examiner made it plain that the temporary suspension was ordered simply to expedite an investigation and not for the purpose of averting a threatened run on the bank by depositors. Wunder Makes Confession. Wunder, who is in the county jail in default of a $10,000 bond, made a voluntary statement to County Attorney John P. Weir, Assistant County Attorney John McSwiggin and Deputy Sheriff Frank Martin late Thursday in which he placed the total amount of his [Continued on Page Thirty-One.]