Peoples Bank & Trust Company (Passaic, NJ)

Episode Information

Episode UID
55013171555
Episode Type
Suspension β†’ Closure
Bank Type
trust
Bank ID
5501317 routing
Routing Number
55-0131
Start Date
July 25, 1929
Location
Passaic, New Jersey (40.857, -74.128)

Metadata

Model
gpt-5-mini (chosen from majority vote of a three-model LLM ensemble)
Short Digest
c06f803e3c35b74e

Response Measures

None

Description

Closures were ordered by the state banking department after problems at the holding company; no reopening reported in these articles.

Events (2)

1. July 25, 1929 Receivership
Newspaper Excerpt
Temporary receivers for the New Jersey Bankers Security Company ... were appointed today by Vice-Chancellor John H. Backes
Source
newspapers
2. July 25, 1929 Suspension
Cause
Government Action
Cause Details
Closed by the state department of banking and insurance after troubles at the New Jersey Bankers' Securities holding company
Newspaper Excerpt
three Passaic banks closed down; closed yesterday by the state department of banking and insurance
Source
newspapers

Newspaper Articles (2)

Article from The Courier-News, July 26, 1929

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Article Text

Is Unable Elliott, III, To Appear Before Jury Passaic Banks Probing (Continued from Page One) Securities Company, which has controlling interest the Hobart Trust, the Merchants Bank and the Service Trust. finally does result for taking the three banks, reported, They total $5,000,000 in the closed banks. Put In Receiver's' Hands The Jersey Bankers' Securiplaced hands John before reorganize affairs the holding after Harry forced resign president, and Nicholas Vecchi, Newark with large banking interests. The appointed under joint bond for $25,000. Their made Solomon Bernstein, Newark dealer owns 63 shares the securities' firm stock. Mr. Bernstein declared corporation endangered by the "incompeof firm's of the delegation of ficials for the bank's that the of the company tied John Roegner, Mayor PasHobart Trust and its branches, termed the place the curities firm the hands "fast stated that the sale bank was an important factor. Deny Rumor Although circulated that the People's Bank Trust Company's officials were "dickerfor the purchase the Hobart bank and branches, the rumor flatly denied the People's bank. Commissioner Smith declared yes- that he of the opinion terday that all depositors would receive dollar for dollar deposits. Something of this apparently shared by Harry dent Trust Passale, which would lend depositors had savings accounts in the three banks that closed up per cent. amounts shown in their pass Commissioner Smith stated that preliminary examination bank's revealed no acts negligence officers the capital $300,000, was the of closing of the bank. United States Senator Edward who president of the New from Paris that the news the Hobart Trust Company and its being closed. Edwards that had he anything that happen he would not sailed France. He stated that he would postpone Swiss until he received full report the Weinberger, who will appear fore the Grand Jury today, criticized methods employed by Stamler he, Weinberger, had ousted. In statement, which was 2,000 words in length, Weinberger declared "polities" sponsible for the of the curities wards agreement free him from future claims ment obligations the time of the of the that liott's kidnaping, which started on the Hobart bank and its been plotted who sought discredit the bank and depreciate its value.


Article from Buffalo Courier Express, July 26, 1929

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Article Text

NAME RECEIVERS FOR SECURITIES FIRM IN JERSEY Consider sale of three Passaic banks closed down; find no criminal negligence Allenhurst, N. J., July 25 (AP)β€”Temporary receivers for the New Jersey Bankers Security Company, holding company whose banks in Passaic were closed yesterday by the state department of banking and insurance, were appointed today by Vice-Chancellor John H. Backes. Application for the receivership was made at the summer residence of the vice-chancellor by counsel for Solomon Bernstein of Newark, a stockholder of the New Jersey Bankers' Securities, which controlled the bank. Two Receivers John J. Stamler, a banker of Newark and Elizabeth, who last year was named temporary president by Backes when the securities company was on the verge of a receivership, and Nicholas La Vecchia were named receivers under bond of $250,000. The receivership order was made returnable Tuesday. The vice-chancellor said he had conferred today with Arthur S. Hughes, vice-president of the Hobart Trust Company, which, with its two branches, was closed, and Henry C. Whitehead, counsel to the Peoples' Bank & Trust Company of Passaic, concerning the sale of the three institutions shut down. Whitehead was said to represent a group of Passaic bankers seeking to purchase the three banks and restore them to good condition. Vice-Chancellor Backes declined to make public the outcome of their conference.