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Stockholders Were Furious

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Day
26
Month
March
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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Chicago, March 23. - The stockholders of the Christopher Columbus Building and Loan assoeiation, which made an assignment Monday on account of a shortage of the secretary and treasurer, held a meeting Monday nisht, at which threats of lynching the ofticers of the assoeiation were freely made. An examination of the safe in which the money and bonds of the secretary and treasurer were supposed to be was made, and neither money nor bonds was found. When the stockholders learned this they were furious. Women who had invested al! their savings in the society made a nish at the table upon which the officers were standing. The pólice hail to beat them back. The offieers were blamed for the disappearance of Secretary Saehsel and $65,000. After a flerce battle oí words, calmer counsels prevailed, and a committee was appointed to decide which of the offlcers ought to bo indicted for the shortage in the funds which made the society insolvent. The committee will subinit the evidence to the state's attorney and ask him to take the matter before the grand jury. The stockholders are mostly poor Poles and Bohemians.

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News