Citizens Bank - Senath, MO

Episode Information

Episode UID: 7379437491597
Episode Type: Suspension → Closure
Bank Type: state
Bank ID: 737943749 hash
Start Date: January 26, 1933
Location: Senath, Missouri (36.134, -90.160)

Metadata

Model: gpt-5-mini (chosen from majority vote of a three-model LLM ensemble)
Short Digest: b729e4490ab9be6c

Response Measures

None

Description

Article states the bank was closed and describes alleged officer-directed robbery; no clear dates of suspension or receivership given.

Events (2)

1. January 26, 1933 Other

Newspaper Excerpt: was robbed last January 26 ... allegedly at direction of two of its officers in an attempt to collect robbery insurance and prevent the bank's failure, was told ... by Herbert Wilson, 23, son of Willie Wilson, one of the bank's directors.
Source: newspapers

2. * Suspension

Cause: Bank Specific Adverse Info
Cause Details: Bank was closed amid alleged criminal acts by officers (robbery/insurance scheme) indicating internal malfeasance.
Newspaper Excerpt: the closed Citizens' Bank of Senath
Source: newspapers

Newspaper Articles (1)

1. November 9, 1933 Columbia Daily Tribune Columbia, MO

Article Text

Charges Bank Officers Directed Senath Robbery By The Associated Press. KENNETT, Mo., Nov. 9.—How the closed Citizens' Bank of Senath was robbed last January 26, allegedly at direction of two of its officers in an attempt to collect robbery insurance and prevent the bank's failure, was told, Dunklin county officers said today, by Herbert Wilson, 23, son of Willie Wilson, one of the bank's directors. Officials quoted young Wilson as saying after his arrest that W. H. Hutchins, cashier, and Delmar Doherty, assistant cashier, both under arrest, led him to believe the only way he could save his father, a large stockholder in the bank, from financial ruin was to assist in a holdup. Officials said Wilson admitted obtaining about $2,000 of the loot which he asserted he handed over to Hutchins with exception of $500 he lost on the stock market at Memphis.