ESCAPED CON ARRESTED IN ATTEMPT TO FIND $100,000 HE EMBEZZLED FROM BANK
Denver, Colorado (JFK+50) On August 25, 1925, Associated Press reports Coney O. Slaughter, former cashier at the Mercantile National Bank of Pueblo, Colorado, was arrested here in Denver last night after returning to Colorado to find $100,000 of money he had embezzled* and then hidden.
Mr. Slaughter escaped from Leavenworth last February while serving an 8 year sentence for "wrecking" the National Bank in Pueblo. The bank failed in 1915.
JFK+50 NOTE
Peter Strescino of The Pueblo Chieftan says that the president of the failed Mercantile National Bank of Pueblo was in Dallas, Texas in August 1915 "so broke he couldn't pay attention."
What is really puzzling about this is, according to Strescino, the name of that bank president was W.B. Slaughter. There is no mention of Coney O. Slaughter in the article...strange coincidence?
*embezzlement is fraudulent appropriation of property by a person to whom it was entrusted.
SOURCES
"Escaped Convict Captured Seeking $100,000 He Hid," The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., August 25, 1925, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
"1915: Bad Week For Bankers," by Peter Strescino, August 2, 2015, The Pueblo Chieftan, www.chieftan.com/
