New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-04-20
EXTENSIVE BANK FORGERIES
THE FORGER ARRESTED BY THE porlcp
OF THIS GUY AND DETROiT-S0Ss
s. CO0 or FOR 1EO DRAFTS KNOWN m
HAVE BEEN USED. ~
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We had knoslsd, yesterday Of 80 important .,....
made in the northern part of tbi. Stats. and AZ n.
Grimm al oetg brought 10 this city but forbore ros
tiOnng the fact IN order to promote q end, Of i,.
tice. Bot bungied statement, of the arrsst hsyr,
appeared in he morning Newspapers, and tina si,ss
an Incorrect publicity 10 the affair, We give the a.
to-day 90 they are
The true name Of the person arrested is beheyht,
be Henry Monroe, atoough he has Travelled arder a.
me,ous aliases N this aod other States.
He is charged With forging drafts upon E.t.rp
Banks obtalned At vsriOus places in toe West .nl
altering them TO different amounts OF from tOOt 10
81 eco each. The dfst altered craft which has c>ns
To the knowledge of the Chief of Police, Wm. Beck Of
tots cry, was bought a. ths Wisconsin, Name snt-
Fue lns nance Company Bank OF tlis ~, 90 the III
If Oc,o Ter last. snt was irssn on the AetropoScu
Bspk f Nes York City. IL was draft o fi2 s3
stsIwsrd altered 20 $780, Nd taken by Monroe 1,
Bloomfield lowe where hs represented that he wa
goirg Ilto the daguerrean business neT there, sri
sso that he wanted to buy farm 10 that viciaity In
tie manner aod otosrSife, he imposed upon dagger
reaD srtst hat pzoe who introduced him 70 Messo
EDis 4 Pol4Id BANKERS IN BLOOMFIELD, who paid the
lrsft Upon THE draft he had written the names Of
James Cooper and G. Fsrpham, as iniorsrs, son
10 make 1t appear as If Il had been nsed by several
persons, and Vas \ GOOD dram.
Tie next craft that h@ altered vas bought 10 Chi
csgo of ]. II Bur,h Co., payable TO the orier Of
H. Wallace, rhcn was al Alas 81 Monroe. IL vx
ou bank 10 Nes York and the smoant VAS go
which WAS after sard altered 10 500 and paid IN
Prairie du Chen, and thence scot TO NeE.Yort.
About week sitter the above issue, the same house
of ]. Ii. BuIch & Co sold another draft to MOuros
foi Sl0 which w,s sftsrsar altered 70 $780, and pad
by Whitman, Standard 4 Co., Banners 10 Cleye!snd
Ohio
The ext draft which has come to the kno Wedge Il
Chiei Bscs of ths city sas bought At MsdsJo, VIA,
for 80 and sterward altered 10 600, and then u vs
eed this c''y at clo!bog store and else where,
but the psrty having One TO identify him, il va, re
fused. II Vas uualy disposed If ia Ch'c>Ro
The next draft w,s bOoght at the Juaesn Bank in
this CITY, last sumner and was $40 IN amount which
was a,terwsrd altered to $500, and disposed Of n
LspOr'e, iLdiana.
Last Fail he bought two at Gslens I'll one for SO,
and the other for s2 They were stterwsrd altered,
the fret to 81 900 add the other b ESQ., One OF theso
was casheo at bank in Auburn ~ Y, and the o.asr
AT East Saginaw, Michigan. By Little & Co., 6snker'
II viii Dc seen from tbs account of MonToes opsra-
tlons that he ia most accomplished adept 10 Tue ar
OF altering drafts, and that bis performances have et
tended over sll the west and to some extent 10 ts
east The money that he hos obsioed ia this minosr
amounts tar il knOEn TO some g. OOO aud doubt
lees some will turn mp. The BANKERS Who hNs
beD bitten by him describe the alt erations "a having
been SKID fully made, AMI circumstances go 70 shOs
that there has been secured 10 the person OF hJnos
3 d .mODd Tascal Of the t'st water.
He vas arrested directly, through the drsft cssbet
by Little 4 CO., ri East S,g'nsw, Mich. Oae OF Their
CLERKS, named Mr Brosn was satisfied that he could
identity the person whO offered the drat and 80 they
went 10 work systematically 70 smoke him out, II
vas possible to fud hun. Toey employed Mr. Wn.
Champ, detective OF the Independent Police oil De
tTot 90 sssst them, ard together they vent ~ Work
lsyrg their wires for his arrest After while they
learned that q ere was man known as 5. H. Hoyt a.
Wsupacs 10 this Ststs, whom they believed 10 be no
person they we're IN search Of.
Mr.. Champ accord, ely came here about week
BRO, and he and Chief Beck went % comparing nONs
as b. A0nross operations NJ Bfck bad the mesh
while be, busy engaged in searching ont the css,
having at diferett tes consulted nth che bankers
this city ard Chicago upon toe u1sct. Little N Cos
clerk Mr. Br0w0 snd aiso NJ. BsHdsey, clerk 70
the Autumn N. Y back, which csshed one OF w
crsfts, slso came on here and consulted WITH Cblel
Beck and they all concluded that the object OF tnsI
Fstch was 10 Wa1paca. H. little singular that OF
al the banks which heecet by Monroe, only inc
above mentioned clerks OF the banks IN AnbuH saa
East Saginaw cond Sufficiently describe Monroe 70
identity bim All the others seemed 10 Dc 10 DlsSu
Ignorance Of bis appearance and descrlphOn
Last Wednesday. Mr. CDamp and DstecllVe pH,
lick Of this city, VINO hal been di'ps'ched by Una
Beck started for Waupscs and they found the GENE
o. .D tLey wanted in a sswmlll which he said ne 9si
hired He At trst denied being the man they ae-
scubed, Dut finally owned up and made clean ofeSs
Of it. r.,
lie sd he frat started 10 the attempt at these iofg
cries or steTstOns more as An experiment tbsn snf
thing el,e ana At irt tad some qas ms oi oonscee9
about IL bot he spent the money no raised oy IL ln
medi4tey, and wanting more, made other tflss, uu'
il coon got 70 be solaJ business 9Th him-toe coz
sequences of which be paid attention TO- so lopg -
he wss getting on so sslhmiDgy.
lie is oil about 80 years Old, dresses plain ana =
OF plain appearance, beirg apparently az meek 80.
Quiet as a lamb. he has avlie IN Wanptca, sI1
.l,o a member of church 10 that place He sali 10
Lad gore up there 10 keep quie: for awhlls, sni
tbous ht be would be out Of the way Of even oody
that remote region He seems to be An sdep, ~th nv
ladies sl-o, az well a. with the banks, Tor ne In
wife and three Children IN O,esD, ". Y, and also bass
wife and two children in Stark County, lcalsos'
Everything goes TO prove hin 70 be an unpre'sS9iF'
willy ulao liberated old scoupdTeL