The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-05-11

UxAvy FaAup ON RAiLRoAp CoMPANY--A
Yosss .Csiprit. The CiDciuuati papers bring she
particulars OF . fraud BY James N. Dubois,
young clerk 10 years old, on the Hamilton and
Dayton Railroad Company, ia whose cfhce be was
Employed. lie presented check for $1,000, have
ing the genuine signature Of the President OF the
Company, at . bank sndreceived the money, with
which he departed. The Gazette says:
The manner In which the cheek was procured,
1.-THE signature of the President being geHnine was
a. follows: Mr.. LHommedieu was In the hapit OF
signing few checks ia blank In tho nsual book,
Tor use by the Secretary they should be wanted.
On SATURDAY. no left two pages or six checks. thus
signed, aud the book was deposited 10 the usuai
place. The Company had recently had printed
aew book Of checks, which had not boon ussa ;ano
from the back of this book Dubois had Gu. 'u.ee
been experimenting upon the signatures. nneh
he had sncceeded In copying the signature OF tue
President with satisfactory accuracy, sun oppyus
unity offered, as it did on sasurdSy, a"eI .ho
Secretary had left the office, he cut from the SO
coud page of blank checks the bottom one anu
carefully pasted In its place the cneck wnich ,e
had already prepared himself, anu 70 ""nn A'
had attached the name OF Mr.. Lhommealeu,-
This nrocess gave him the genuine signature OF the
pr..,aant AZ every check was printed across the
face. '.None good unless countersigned ny 'ho
secretary it was necessary to forge the signature
of Mr. f. H. Short, which was done, tnoush nos III
manner to escape detection, had 1t been SUBJECT
cd to scrutiny. n...
The check was presented on Saturday afternoon
and paid and the forgery was not discovered Jus
I'll Tuesday afternoon, the book not having Deen
used in the mean time, when the pass oook was
tnksn TO the Lafayette Bank to be balanced up
on making INQUIRIES, IL was ascertained mat
voupp Dubois had not been at the ONCE since cats
urday, nor at his usual boarding place, ana the
forgery was at once traced to him. furtnet ih-
vsstigation developed the fact that he had not
o<ad ha have described,
which he must have had 10 contemplation Ior
some time but that 10 his subsequent hight from
the city, he had taken with him young lAuy
about eighteen years of age the sister OF the ~lIe
OF very respectable citizen, to whose griei We
will not add another pang by giving pnohchy 10
her name.
The guilty partner in the flight of the young
forger is said to be handsome and well educateu,
aud until this affair." had borne an 1rreproacnaoie
character. She had been resident OF the Guy
about six months, having came from rev IorK
city to reside With her brother-in- law. AS soon
as the fact became known that they mad ieit the
city the telegraph was brought into .eIu,s',on
In every direction, 10 hopes to intercept them De-
fore they got out of the country
Young Dubois is only about nineteen years OF
age and had been in the employ OF the Railroad
Company for the past eighteen months, during
which time his conduct, so far as the officers had
any knowledge, had been above suspicion He was
prompt in his attention to business, and had the
entire confidence of his employers.
He was one of the youngest clerks In the once,
and was generally employed in asserting and
| counting the cancelled tickets. His habits and
associations were supposed to be good, although
since his fight 1t has been sscertained that ms
morals, when not under the eye Of bis friends,
we're not of the strictest In addition to his usual
apparent correct department. he was regular At
tondant at Christey Chapel and WAS the Librarian
| in the Sunday School. His punctuality In attend
| ing the school had been so marked, that bis abb
sence On Sunday last excited much inquiry, but nc
suspicion was entertained that it was voluntary, or
| the result of crime Should the money not be res
covered the loss, will, we presume, fall entirely
| upon the Bank.