MAY NOT FACE TRIAL.
AMERICAN BANKER'S HEALTH. NEW YORK, March 15. Joseph W. Harriman, chairman of the Harriman National Bank and Trust Co., who has been arrested on a charge of having lost large sums by speculation, is not likely to face his trial. He is suffering from heart disease, and doctors have given him only three months to live. Harriman is a prisoner in his own bedroom, where detectives wait while doctors fight for his life. The arrest caused a new banking sensation, for Harriman's was the largest among the nine Federal reserve banks which failed to open on Monday. It had 30,000,000 dollars of deposits. It is alleged that Harriman caused false entries to be made in the bank's books, with intent to deceive the Comptroller of Currency and his agents. So far 300,000 dollars are covered in the charges, but millions more will be included in pending accusations.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 68, 22 March 1933, Page 7
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