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E. L.HENDREY UNDER ARREST PRESIDENT OF NIGHT AND DAY BANKS AT MEMPHIS AND HOT SPRINGS. Run on Memphis Bank Follows Arrest As Fugitive From Justice From Oklahoma. Mempais, Tenn., Aug. 15.-101 lowing the arrest of E. L. Hendrey, a president of the institution, on warrant charging that he is a fugitive from Oklahoma, formal announce. ment was made early this morning that a temporary receiver will be asked today for the All Night and Day Bank of Memphis. Judge R. E. Maiden, attorney for the bank, in authorizing the statement that the bank's doors will not be re-opened this morning, asserts that depositors and the stockholders of the concern will be paid in full and that the application for a receiver will be taken solely to prevent a repetition of a run started early last night when it became known that a warrant had been ISsued for Hendrey's arrest. Hendrey was taken into custody by Deputy Sheriff Mel Burgess of Oklahoma City. He is specifically cnarg. ed with intent to defraud and injure an Oklahoma City bank. The charges follow the arrest in Oklahoma of Abner Davis and G. H. Meyers, respectively former president and cashier of the Night and Day Bank of Oklahoma City. They are enarged with embezzlement, and the falsifying of entries. and bank statements. Davis and Myer were released under bond. Hendrey, while entering a general denial to the charges, announces mis willingness to accompany Burgess to Oklahoma without protest. He asserts he has not been in that state in years and that he has had no dealings with the Oklahoma City night and day bank. When the run on the bank was at its height last night several hundred depositors were struggling for access to the paying teller's window. Announcement was then made that the bank would be closed for the night but would re-open this morning. A squad of police put in a busy quarter of an hour dispersing the crowd. The All Night and Day Bank was organized a year ago with a capital of $32,250. Its last statement, July 1, showed resources of $153,846.60. Deposits, representing in the main small accounts. totalled $96,030.41. The resources included loans and discounts of $99,134.92.