H.C. Cooper Not Guilty in Failure of Bank, Feb. 7, 1925

Horace C. Cooper Is Freed in Wilmington. . . Verdict of Not Guilty Returned in Case Growing Out of Bank Failure

By the Associated Press

Wilmington, N.C., Feb. 7—A verdict of not guilty was returned today in the case of Horace C. Cooper, former cashier of the defunct Commercial National Bank, on trial in connection with the failure of the bank.

Court adjourned after the verdict had been returned, until Monday morning, and W.B. Cooper, former chairman of the board of directors of the bank, Thos. E. Cooper, former president of the bank, and Clyde Lassiter, a former customer, will be tried on charges growing out of the institution’s failure in December, 1922.

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Feb. 7, 1925

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