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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIII, Issue 24, 9 October 1885, Page 7

One of the men who are likely to loom up into disgraceful prominence in connection with the Munster Hank failure is Mr Robert Farquharson, the joint manager of the Dublin branch It is chirged that he not only systematically robbed the bank to keep up wild speculations on the London btock Exchange, but that he stood at his post after the crash, and concocted a scheme by which his thefts might be concealed. It is certain that he prevented the Rank of Ireland from coming to the relief of the Munster Bank, and it i, now known that he wanted to force the latter institution into bankrnptcy in the hope that be would be appointed the liquidator and thus have a chance of continuing, and at. tho same time concealing his own frauds. Surely a bolder scheme never entered the head of a bank wrecker. Of coursp, there was blundering mismanage ment of the bank on all sides, and gios connivances with Farquharson's frauds, or they never could have been executed but everyone is now joining in the hue and cry against Farquharsor and attention is thus withdrawn from other ami, perhaps equally guilty conspirators. It is said that some of those who are loudest m their outcry against the fugitive are re illy in secret terror lest he should be captured and forced to tell what he knows about his accomplices. For the present, however, the whole torrent of public indignation is turned agninst Farquharson, and if he were brought to Dublin to-night it would require a strong force of constables' to guard him against mob vengeance. The latent clue to Farquharson's movements is a statement that he escaped in a sailing vessel which he chartered himself, and which sailed for BaUimore from a small seaport| a few miles south-west of Cork, The police are investiinvestigating this and other clues, but they complain of a lack ot money to follow up the investigation, and intimate that there is some hidden influence at work to prevent successful pursuit,