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A Mystery of the Defunct Nye and Ormsby County Bank. Why Has No Adequate Effort Been Made to Probe the Notorious Case to the Bottom. Last summer, when the grand and later turned into the First National Bank of Goldfield. jury was in session probing into Receiver Hall states that for this county affairs and making suggesvast sum of money he was unable tions as to where county expenses to discover where the local bank could be pruned and reduced, a lethad ever got one penny in return ter was written to the foreman except ten shares of stock in the from Reno by a leading citizen First National bank of Goldfield. of that place, then resident there, Over a half million of dollars vanstating that two important witnesses ished into the air! And today the in the Nye & Ormsby County Bank depositors and creditors are waiting case were in that city, and would for that dollar-for-dollar clean-up. come to Tonopah at their own Among other peculiar transactions expense even and testify if a propof the period, according to Attorney er subpoena were issued for them. Boyd, six thousand dollars in cash A letter about the same purport disappeared in one day, and for this was also written to the then disthe receiver was unable to find trict attorney, Cleve H. Baker. where the bank had ever got any This prominent citizen received return whatever. replies to both letters. Both were These are a few of the discovof about the same tenor. Satiscries the receiver made. but no faction was expressed that such com effort has been made to probe petent witnesses were at hand, and these matters. Why not? the recipient of the letter was asked Counsel Engaged. to request the attendance of the Some time after the bank closed two witnesses in question. But not one of the bondsmen of the late a word was said about a subpoena, county treasurer entered into an nor was any effort made to issue arrangement with the district atone, nor to secure the issuance of torney for the retention of speone. cial counsel to work on the case. Who the Witnesses Were. The county was to put up $200 The two witnesses in question a month for his salary, and the were former Receiver Hall of the district attorney and the bondsdefunct bank and Senator Boyd, man in question $50 each. H. Althe attorney for the receiver. ling was put on the case. He workThe evidence that these two ed a couple of months or so on men stood ready to give was so the job. sensational and startling-s vital But in all that time he was not to the successful prosecution of the allowed to devote one minute to thieves who robbed the bank. and the probing of the bank case. Me got away with thousands of the Baker kept him busy at other people's money-that the failure to things-despite his special salary summon them looks suspicious. Was The bondsman, seeing that no efthere too much politics at stakefort was to be made to really inor was it something else? vestigate the affair, retired from To satisfy public sentiment a few the agreement. This same bondscases against the bank and against man has personally expended about bondsmen of county officials were $1000 on the case, trying to secure permitted to hang fire in the district evidence to convict the looters of court, in which a showing was the bank. But no convictions have made once in a while by the arguever been made. ing of a demurrer or the making The Next Grand Jury. of a motion of no particular conThere is a whole lot of mystery sequence, but everyone was too busy about this Nye & Ormsby County to bother with a subpoena. Bank case. It is time it was Was it because some people did probed to the bottom. not want too much of the truth It will avail little now to ask to come out. why the last grand jury did not do The County's Interest. a little probing in this bank affair The county had $60,000 in the -mysterious as it all s-but it is Nye & Ormsby County bank at the pertinent to inquire if the new time it closed its doors. Not only grand jury will take up the inthis, it had in the bank three notes vestigation. -one for $2000 and two for $10,All the books of the bank are in 000 ach-given by the county for possession of Judge Averill, of the moneys it had been compelled to district court. A new grand jury borrow. When the bank closed it is shortly to be called. Less than was found these three notes had a year remains of the time when been peddled over in San Francisco the claim of the county becomes -placed in the hands of "innocent outlawed. holders"- the result that not Is anything going to be done in only does the county stand to lose the matter? its $60,000 deposit, but it may have to pay these notes as well, although the bank to which they were given CIVIL PRACTICE ACT was a creditor of the county. TO BE READY TODAY That is only another feature of the funny business which has charCARSON CITY, Nev., Feb. 3.acterized this peculiar affair all The civil practice act of the new through code prepared by the code commisWith this much at stake-and sion will be submitted tomorrow. with an empty treasury confronting or at least the latest on Monday, the county-the county's interest depending on its contemplation by in the bank is pretty well estabthe state printer. It is a voluminlished. Evidence of important witous document. nesses should be secured. if it was vital to the recovery of the money. Some of the Evidence. WANT BOXING MATCHES. After the bank closed its doors By Associated Press. its first receiver was Hall. He HARTFORD. Conn., Feb. 3.-A made a thorough investigation of bill to legalize limited boxing conthe books of the institution. He tests in Connecticut was introduced discovered that just before the Nye in the legislature yesterday. It pro& Ormsby closed its doors six hunvides that scientific exhibitions may dred thousand dollars-just think be given with municipal authority of it, over half a million!-in seand under direction of a supervisor curities and collateral were transand physician. In wrestling the ferred to its branch in Goldfield, strangle hold will be allowed.
