1910 - BANK TREASURER NOT FOUND.; Shortage in Southbridge Savings Bank Believed to be About $100,000.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Jan. 22. - John A Hall, the Treasurer of the Southbridge Sayings Bank, which was closed yesterday by an injunction after the discovery of discrepancies in its accounts, is still missing to-night. Some of his friends here say that the missing man is a suicide, and the woods near the town were searched to-day, but without revealing any trace of him. There is a warrant against him charging the larceny of $21,000 from the bank's treasury. A description of the man has been sent brodcast [sic] by the authorities, with a request for his arrest if found.

The treasurer is 41 years old and is 5 feet 8 inches tall, weighs 190 pounds, and has dark brown hair and mustache. He was known as a home man, with quiet tastes, living apparently well within his means.

During the day a suit was brought in the Worcester County Court against Hall's estate by the Trustees of the bank, and an attachment for $100,000 was placed on his property.

While to-day's continued investigation of the books of the bank gave the public no definite information as to the full amount of the shortage, conservative estimates place it near $100,000, and it was said that if this amount were not exceeded the bank would soon be able to resume business.

To-night a hundred or more of the 6,000 depositors gathered around the bank, but no demonstration was made. A statement to the effect that it was hoped that the depositors would lose little, made to-day by Bank Commissioner Chapin, has reassured many of the depositors. Most of the depositors are mill operatives in Southbridge and surrounding towns.