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Update Vermont: Best conditions in New England around Rutland. Rest of territory, pretty poor. Hesitate before leaving. Make sure there's something...
...Charles Manley Smith, president of Marble Savings Bank of small Rutland, Vt., learned that John J. Cocklin, a bookkeeper, had embezzled $251,000 from the bank's savings deposits, lost most of it in the stockmarket. A descendant of pioneer Vermont settlers, Banker Smith quickly reasoned that $250,000 would seem an almost astronomical figure to frugal Rutland depositors, that publication of the loss might cause a ruinous run on his bank. With this in mind he gently eased the defaulting bookkeeper out hushed up the fraud, charged the loss to surplus & undivided profits. Consequently the bank pursued...
...Marble Savings Bank's secret could not keep forever. Finally State's Attorney Asa Bloomer of Rutland heard of it. Last June he broke the case wide open by ordering the arrest of former Bookkeeper Cocklin for grand larceny making public the details of the fraud for the first time. He began to intimate that Governor Smith was guilty of at least poor judgment when he failed to hand Bookkeeper Cocklin over to authorities immediately after the fraud was discovered. Vermonters began to wonder if their Governor was not guilty of another error when he failed to raise...
...Attorney Bloomer was ready to claim that Governor Smith was guilty of more than merely bad judgment. He had him formally charged with misprision of felony (a misdemeanor) for failing to report Bookkeeper Cocklin's crime. While harried Governor Smith was posting a $3,000 bond in Rutland's municipal court, Treasurer Baldwin was over in the county court being sentenced for his part in concealing the crime. Tear-choked County Judge Buttles imposed a fine of $400 against his old friend Lathrop Baldwin, gave him a suspended sentence of from six months to a year. First...
Married. Lady Isobel Violet Kathleen Manners, 18, daughter of the Duke of Rutland, niece of Actress Lady Diana Duff Cooper and Secretary of State for War Alfred Duff Cooper; and Thomas Loel Evelyn Bulkeley Guinness, 30. divorced Member of Parliament for Bath whose sister, the Hon. Tanis Guinness Montagu, last month jilted the Earl of Carnarvon in Baltimore; by Rev. William Frederick Geikie-Cobb, one of the rare Church of England rectors willing to remarry divorcees; in London. To qualify as a resident of the parish of the Reverend Geikie-Cobb's Church of St. Ethelburga, Parliamentarian Guinness...