The supposed existence of the fund
was reported by Boston authorities,
who informed New York officials that
a former Russian newspaper editor
i had told of the fund in an address in
that city, in which he urged radicals
I to "stop talking and begin action."
i The editor, now a member of the
j Communis- party, was said to have
j returned to New York, and it was
hoped to learn more of the fund
j through him if .he could be found,
j Search also is being made for five
j radicals whose names were given de
! partment of justice agents by radi-
uer squad" who had been assigned by
a group of revolutionaries to kiil
Police Sergeant Gesan of the Bomb
Squad, Charles Scully, chief of the
"radical" division of the local bureau
of the department of justice, and
Assistant District Attorney Alexander
I. Rorke had been active in prosecu
tion of radicals.
CASHIER TOOK
ALL BUT VAULT
IND JANITO
Shortage is Estimated at
$400,000 Locked Exam
iners Up.
Chicago, Nov. 22 The Illinois
State Bank of Crete, Ills., today failed
to open and it was announced a war
rant charging embezzlement had
been issued for the missing cashier,
Gust Kracke, in connection with a
shortage estimated at $400,000.
The bank was capitalized at $25,
000 and had known assets of approxi
mately $300,000. "The vault door
and the janitor are left that's about
all," said a state bank examiner af
ter the books, including a duplicate
set in a vault to . which none but
Kracke was said to have access, had
been found.
Speculation was blamed for
Kracke's alleged shortage.
