New developments in the Bank of Midland case are lacking.
County officers, State bank examiners and Deputy Commissioner Scott of the State Insurance Department, are working on all available clues, yet who fired the bank building and who made the reported attack and who made the reported attack on the cashier, C.T. Blakeney, and has devoted attention to the several rumors offered as solutions to the mystery.
Mr. Blakeney was still confined to his bed Friday, it was said. He complained of a severe pain in the back of his head and his neck. He also said that several of his ribs were sore, it is reported.
Sheriff Caldwell states that during the day he was advised that several persons who “aroused suspicion” were seen in Midland within the past week. He is working on all available clues, he states.
The money found in the safe of the bank, which was opened Thursday afternoon, has been deposited in a Charlotte bank, it is said. Records of the bank that were not burned have been turned over to the auditors representing Frederick B. Hill & Co., who are engaged as state bank examiners and who had started an examination of the bank’s books the afternoon before the fire.
It is understood that the records have been taken to Charlotte, where the resident manager of the company, W.S. Coursew, has his headquarters. It is not known now, it is said, how much time will be required to complete the check to determine whether any funds were stolen.
Commissioner Scott and Sheriff Caldwell conferred Friday over the few clues offered, but they had nothing definite to report at the conclusion of their conference.
Midland was back to normalcy Friday. A few strangers dropped in to see the ruins of the bank and discuss with residents of the Cabarrus town its most sensational event but otherwise everything was running about as usual.
From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, April 10, 1926
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