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The Evening Statesman Domestic News February 10, 1908
Walla Walla, Walla Walla, Washington
What is this article about?
Between $40,000 and $50,000 mysteriously disappeared from the Utah National bank's reserve chest about January 7; extensive searches have found no clue.
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Measured from the scan
— how cleanly the OCR engine read the characters
- Mean ink quality
- 99.0% The length-weighted average confidence across the OCR lines — the mean of exactly the per-line scores whose tails the two figures below report. Typical is 99%.
- Illegible ink
- 0.0% Text sitting in OCR-detected lines that scored below 80% confidence — very shaky reads. Weighted by line length, so one long bad line counts for more than a short one.
- Uncertain ink
- 0.0% Text in lines that scored 80–90% — somewhat shaky reads.
- Matches source
- 99.4% How closely the served text matches the raw OCR of the same boxes, letter by letter, after collapsing spacing and case. This measures agreement, not correctness: the OCR is often wrong and the extractor corrects it, so 100% does not mean perfect, and a low figure usually means poor scan text was rewritten rather than that text was lost (length vs source shows loss).
- Length vs source
- 99.65% Below 100% means text was dropped from the OCR; above means text was added to make it read.
Assembled by the extraction model
— whether the stitched-together text holds up; catches layout and segmentation errors, which the scores above cannot see
- Transcription confidence
- 96.0% (typical 96%) How cleanly the extractor could assemble what it was given. Low here with clean ink scores points at layout analysis — the characters were read correctly but grouped or ordered wrongly.
- Comprehension
- 95.0% Whether the piece reads coherently start to finish. Can stay high while transcription confidence drops, when only part of the component is affected.
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MONEY STOLEN FROM UTAH BANK
Fifty Thousand Dollars Mysteriously Disappears From Salt Lake City Vault.
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Feb. 10.—Between $40,000 and $50,000 disappeared from the Utah National bank about January 7, and although the minutest search has been prosecuted every day for a month, not a single clew has been found that will lift the mystery and point to the guilty person who stole the money.
The Pinkerton detective agency has exhausted every effort, the bank has spent time and money in hunts, no stone has been unturned, and yet nothing has appeared to show where the money went or who took it.
The theft of the money has been kept in ironclad secrecy by the bank officials. The money was stolen from the reserve money chest. It was nearly all in gold.
"The circumstances surrounding the disappearance of the money," said President W. McCormick tonight, "make it impossible as well as unfair to the bank employees, to place suspicion on any one or two men. The combination to the chest had been in the hands of two men. A third man who was given the figures during the absence of one of these men had them in a sealed envelope, but had occasion to break the seal and open the chest during the summer. Then he placed the unsealed envelope in his own money chest, to which others had access."
F. Augustus Heinze was "eliminated" from the board of directors of the Utah National at the last annual meeting.
Fifty Thousand Dollars Mysteriously Disappears From Salt Lake City Vault.
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Feb. 10.—Between $40,000 and $50,000 disappeared from the Utah National bank about January 7, and although the minutest search has been prosecuted every day for a month, not a single clew has been found that will lift the mystery and point to the guilty person who stole the money.
The Pinkerton detective agency has exhausted every effort, the bank has spent time and money in hunts, no stone has been unturned, and yet nothing has appeared to show where the money went or who took it.
The theft of the money has been kept in ironclad secrecy by the bank officials. The money was stolen from the reserve money chest. It was nearly all in gold.
"The circumstances surrounding the disappearance of the money," said President W. McCormick tonight, "make it impossible as well as unfair to the bank employees, to place suspicion on any one or two men. The combination to the chest had been in the hands of two men. A third man who was given the figures during the absence of one of these men had them in a sealed envelope, but had occasion to break the seal and open the chest during the summer. Then he placed the unsealed envelope in his own money chest, to which others had access."
F. Augustus Heinze was "eliminated" from the board of directors of the Utah National at the last annual meeting.
What sub-type of article is it?
Crime
What keywords are associated?
Utah National Bank Theft
Bank Robbery
Missing Gold
What entities or persons were involved?
W. Mccormick
F. Augustus Heinze
Where did it happen?
Salt Lake City, Utah
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
Salt Lake City, Utah
Event Date
About January 7
Key Persons
W. Mccormick
F. Augustus Heinze
Outcome
theft of $40,000-$50,000 in gold; no suspect found.