BILL WOULD GIVE BACK
$10,000,000 TO SENDERS
Steamship Companies and
Bankers Put Under Control.
Special Despatch to Tnr New Yo*k Hicham/
New York HithIiI Bureau, I
Albany, .March 24. f |
More than 110,000,000. representing
several hundred thousand unremitted
accounts held by exprem and steamship
companies and private bankers lor
transmission to all parts of the world,
i will have to be returned to the con
signors If the bill iritroducrd to-day by
Senator Cotlllo becomes a law.
Provisions of the measure require that
nil persons and corporations engaged in
the business of transmitting money to
foreign countries must file a report of
all accounts wit'i the Superintendent of
Hanks on the first of each month. These
institutions are not regulated by the
State, and depositors clnim they ar; un
able to recover money not delivered.
The Cotlllo bill stipulates that the Su
| perlntendent of Banks shall determine
| such claims.
JURY SAMPLES LIQUOR;
ACQUITS HARRY BLACK
New Yorker in Florida Freed
in Criminal Court.
Miami. March 24.?Harry S. Black
of New York was acquitted by a Jury
in the Dade County Criminal Court
here this afternoon of having had a
large quantity of liquor In his posses
sion aboarn his private car at Cocoanut
Grove, five miles from Miami.
The jury returned the verdict in three
minutes. Ail members of the Jury were
ailower to drink from the seized stock
of whiskey by the prosecution in order
? that they might determine whether or
not it was intoxication.
