Broken banks - defaulting cashiers - negligent directors - who is responsible? LCCN2012647302, 1881

Title: broken banks - defaulting cashiers - negligent directors - who is responsible? abstract: print shows a police officer holding o. L. Baldwin, cashier at the mechanics' national bank in newark, by the shoulder while baldwin, using "speculation soap suds", blows a soap bubble labeled "500,000 paid in capital" and "surplus fund $400,000" that drips money into a top hat in front many old men labeled "bank director" and investors entering on the right, in the background. At his feet are papers labeled "cooked statement". Puck gestures toward the old men and suggests the police officer consider arresting them as well. Physical description: 1 print: chromolithograph. Notes: caption: puck to representative of the law-- "you have got the thief - now take the men who let him steal the money of the trusting depositors. "; j. Keppler.;illus. From puck, v. 10, no. 244, (1881 november 9), centerfold.;copyright 1881 by keppler & schwarzmann.;title from item. Date: 1881.