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Elizabeth City, Edenton, Pasquotank County, Chowan County, North Carolina
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Published correspondence between convicted ex-president C. E. Cross and former president Capt. E. R. Stamps of the State National Bank accuses Stamps of interfering with Cross's statement on the bank's failure. Cross threatens to withhold evidence that could send Stamps to prison for his family's sake.
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Some correspondence between C. E. Cross, the convicted ex-president of the State National Bank, and Capt. E. R. Stamps, a former president of the bank, has been published and is commented on considerably. Cross charges Stamps with having interfered with the publication in full of his (Cross') statement of facts in connection with the broken bank, and publicly tells Stamps that he (Cross) is in possession of evidence sufficient to send him to the penitentiary, but for the sake of his (Stamps) wife and children he (Cross) will withhold it for the present. Cross says that the State National Bank had been sitting for years as a huge brick dead-fall, and that C. E. Cross and Sam C. White happened to touch the trigger and are now crushed in the ruins.
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Primary Location
Raleigh
Event Date
July 27th
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c. e. cross convicted; state national bank failed
Event Details
Correspondence published where Cross charges Stamps with interfering with the full publication of Cross's statement on the broken bank and claims possession of evidence to send Stamps to the penitentiary, withheld for Stamps's family. Cross describes the bank as a trap that crushed him and Sam C. White.