The Banker Who Ran East: Davenport's Missing Money Catches Up in a Boston Courtroom
Indicted in Washington for misappropriating the funds of Davenport's Big Bend National Bank, Charles C. May was back before a Boston commissioner — free on $5,000 bail while the case was put over a few days.
Boston. — The case of Charles C. May, who was arrested in Boston on the charge of being a fugitive from justice from the state of Washington, was called before Commissioner Hodge Saturday, but was continued a few days. May is at liberty on $5,000 bail. He has been indicted in Washington on the charge of misappropriation of funds of the Big Bend National Bank of Davenport.
“May is at liberty on $5000 bail. He has been indicted in Washington on the charge of misappropriation of funds of the Big Bend National bank of Davenport.”
In 1905 a county-seat bank held the wheat money, the mortgage payments and the savings of an entire Big Bend town, so an officer accused of 'misappropriation' was accused of robbing his neighbours. May's case was disposed of in a few lines of a Boston docket — a defendant with means, out on bail, while the paperwork drifted. Substitute wire fraud and a federal courtroom in Yakima and the shape of the story has not changed at all.
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