Shaw Bank & Trust Company (St Louis, MO)

Episode Information

Episode UID
912775291597
Episode Type
Run โ†’ Suspension โ†’ Closure
Bank Type
state
Bank ID
91277529 hash
Start Date
January 18, 1933
Location
St Louis, Missouri (38.627, -90.198)

Metadata

Model
gpt-5-mini (chosen from majority vote of a three-model LLM ensemble)
Short Digest
fde2e211573977e5

Response Measures

None

Description

OCR in Article 1 contains typos; interpreted 'failed open for business today' as closed and turned over for liquidation.

Events (3)

1. January 18, 1933 Run
Cause
Local Banks
Cause Details
Part of a wave of smaller banks in St. Louis closing in the prior two weeks, prompting heavy withdrawals.
Measures
Placed a limit on month withdrawals from checking accounts, then removed the restriction.
Newspaper Excerpt
Heavy withdrawals followed, he asserted.
Source
newspapers
2. January 18, 1933 Suspension
Cause Details
Directors turned affairs over for liquidation due to widespread unrest and heavy withdrawals; described as part of local banking closures.
Newspaper Excerpt
The Shaw Bank and Trust Company... failed open for business today ... board of directors ... to turn over the affairs this bank to the finance ... affairs be liquidated
Source
newspapers
3. July 20, 1933 Receivership
Newspaper Excerpt
Receiver Oscar Wibbing urges depositors to fill out claims... More than 80 per cent of the deposits... have been filed for.
Source
newspapers

Newspaper Articles (2)

Article from The St. Louis Star and Times, January 18, 1933

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Article Text

The Shaw Bank and Trust Company. 1501 South Grand boulevard, failed open for business today It the seventeenth of the smaller banks in the city and county to close the last fifteen days An unsigned notice. posted on the door, read follows: "Owing to the unrest existing among the citizens of St. Louis with respect to their bank deposits, the of funds and the banking thereby, the board of directors for the proall the to turn over the affairs this bank to the finance this time, when, the judgment the directors, its affairs be liquidated that each depositor can be paid Dierberger cashier of the bank According Dierberger and Maryin Boisseau, attorney for the bank. institution without active president They said that derman Harry Riefling of the Fifteenth Ward listed president, but wthdrew from participation few months ago. "Riefling sent of resignation to the board of directors last June," Boisseau said, "but it has never acted Riefling his home His daughter, Miss Ruth Riefling, that her father has not been active the bank's affairs June. financial statement issued on December showed that, on that date, the bank mand deposits and $367,383 in time deposits. The bank was capitalized for had surplus of $60,000 and loans and discounts totaling the bank obtained loan from ReconstrucFinance Dierberger said that the bank placed limit month withdrawals from checking counts Saturday. but removed the restriction yesterday Heavy withdrawals followed, he asserted. Bank in Donovan, III., Suspends State Bank closed today for 30-day bank holiday. The closing proclaimed Mayor also of the bank. The town president now has no other bank Rich Chicagoan Ends Life. Chisilk firm official, strangled cago himself today apartment the Lake Shore Athletic Club.


Article from Neighborhood News, July 12, 1933

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Article Text

JULY LAST FILING DAY FOR SHAW BANK CLAIM Receiver Oscar Wibbing Urges Depositors to Fill Out Than 80% Has Been Claimed. Oscar Wibbing. receiver for the Shaw Bank & Trust Co., Grand and Park avenue, urges all positors who have not yet filed their claims on their accounts do so at once. July 20 is the last day for these claims. More than 80 per cent of the deposits of the Shaw Bank Trust Co. have been filed for There are still great number of depositors who have failed come to the offices of the receiver the Shaw Bank Building to file their claims.