, 1859-04-16
4 Long Series Of Bold and Successful
ForEer1cs-AxKe&G Of thu ForXer.

ForEer1c1-AxEeAto Of t6a FOfXeF.
From the Des1uat Advertiser, 1&h.1
On the 3oth Of November last man named
R. s. Monroe sold . draft to ". L. P. Little, of
Bank Of Galcnh, III, On the Market Bank of New
York. The draft was forwarded to New York,
md credited to Mr.. Little. In due course Of
time it returned to Galena and WAS then psssed
to the credit Of the New York correspondent by
the Bank Of Galene. On the 18th Of December,
amount, drawn BY the same Bunk on the Market
Bank, to the Exchange Bunk Of auburn, New
York, where he formerly resided, and inlmedi-
ately disappeared, no one knew whittier. This
draft, like the previous one, went through the
usual routine. was credited to tho Exchange
Bank by the New York Bank, and by the Bank
Of Galcpa to the Market Bank, without any sus-
picioa on the p1rt Of any one through whose
hands it had passed, that I'll WIS not right
But in naking up their accounts or striking
eir;balanccs in January, the Ga1ena Bank dis
covered deficiency or discrepancy in their cash
account; amounting to nearly Il ,6vo. OF course
they set themselves about the agreeable duty to
discover where the trouble was, and upon cont-
pairing their drafts the secret burst upon them.
II turned out that some weeks previously they
had sold ut different times two drafts Of some
ten dollars each. a further scrutiny showed
that the ink in which the original amount Of the
drafts WAS written, had bech extracted by m in
Eenious chemical process, and eight hundred
dollars substituted in its stead So admirably
had this been done that the fraud had not been
suspected even by the Ga!ena Bunk themselves
by whom they were originally drawn.
As soon as the forgeIies were discovered, the
drafts we're Of conrte forwarded to the Banks
BY whom they had been purchased Of Monroe
Immediately upon receiving notice Of the for
about the first Of February, and placed the
who: matter in the hands Of private detetive
Champ will Instructions to spare no expense in
1errcting out and bringing to justice the forget
Mr. Champ entered upon an investigation Of the
subject, aud by process which none but the
shrewdest detectives would hare thought Of
udopting, aud which no others would under
stand were It necessary to explain it, be at
length satisfied himself that Hun By the name,
OF passing BY the name Of S. H. lIoyt, residing
ut Waupacca, Waupueca county, III the north
ern part Of Wisconsin, in a comparatively un-
settled part Of the State, $50 miles or so north
west Of Milwaukee, was tue forger- Having no
doubt that lie had got On the track Of his nun,
and that uoyt was the altas Of Monroe. Mr..
Clamp started in pursuit. At Milwaukee, lie
consulted with Chief Of Police Beck. who de-
tailed Nm. Garlic to accompany Mt. Champ, to
Waupacca. Upon arriving there they found
Hoyt without difficulty, and arrested him With
taken to the hotel and given an hour in whicl,
to take leave Of his wife, and make such ar
rangemcnts Us that brief period permitted for
his long aud melancholy journey.
His interview with his wife, u young. intelli-
gent and innocent woman, to whom lle had been
married but q few weeks, is described as most
heart-rending, and moved to tears ail who Wit
Messed it. Size seems to have been warmly at
tachcl TO him, and hud not the most remote sns-
ricion that he had erer been or could be guilty
of any crime, much less that of forgcr, and u
still, baser ouc against him, Of which more d.
rect}y. She hung about him in the greatest az
ony, and would uo. believe him Il criminal. mud
tinully bad to be torn from him and left alone
among strangers in new and strange country,
hundreds Of miles from her fathers house and
far from all friends.
Monroe, alias Hoyt was taken to Milwaukee
by the officers where they met several bunkers.
upon whom lie had committed his forgcries, and
amongst others, Mr.. G. girdsley, Esq, I'resi-
dent Of the Exchange Bank, Of Auburn, by whom
the forger was recognized, and by l. H. Burcll,
Of Chicago. by comparing notes it was ascer-
taincd thut Monroe had baen carrying on his op-
eratons on an extensive scale throughout the
whole Western Country, md by tile same pro-
cess as We have described above, that is By buy
ing drat fits for ten dollars or SO, extracting tile
thought safe, Or as his plans required, and in-
every instance with the most perfect success,
and without exciting the least suspicion.
Amongst others it was ascertained that lie had
purchased Il draft on the Bank Of Commerce,
New York, for Fl" Of J. II. Burch, Of Chicago,
on the Nh Of April, 1ss:, then altered it tn s5sD
and suld it to tic rru: ie du Chen Bank; and
on the I'd Of august he sold one altered in tho
same way to the Bank If Milwaukee,, on the
Ocean Bank Of New York. From the infor1na-
tion obtained there is no doubt that Monroe's
furgeries amount to fifteen thousand dullars at
least; and Us bankers do not like to confess to
having been tietrauded successfully, it is iii
41. II.
the amount Elay much exceed that sum.
At any rate Monroe has proved himself one Of
the most slrcwd, SkiIfu1, and successful forsers
nf The dny, and Of coarse one Of the most dam
Eerons. There seems to be no limits to his
frauds, except the moderation Of his desires.
No one ever csitated to take lis drafts, and the
tor.erics would probuby never have been dis
covered but for The difficulty bankers who had
sold him the draf1s which he had so inscniously
altered, found in balancing their accounts. His
operations mi 1ht lis easily have extended to
hundreds of thousands Of dollars us to fifteen
fhausand- Bankers and the public will there
fore understand the Importance Of the arrest Of
this most skilliul aud must dangerous iinan-
ccr.
Monroc's permanent residence was at Walker
vile, 81. Joseph county, Indiana, where he has
4 wife living ut the present time, and several
children; and this fact will explain our reference
to the crime greater than forgery, which he had
committed against the innocent woman living
with linn ut tile time Of his arrest, and to whum
he lind been married, thus being 4 Iyamtst as
well as n.for4er.
After his forgery nt Auburn, he returned to
his family in Indiana, confessed ail to his wife,
told her he must leave Aer, and 70 to Pixies
Peak or somewhere else, to await arrest. She
consented, advising linn to look out fur himself
und assuring him that she would cnAcayor to
support herself and the children. lie accord
inslv took his departure. But instead of going
tu Fixes Peak, he went 10 jasper county, Inii-
ana. where he became acquainted with and mar
rictl Martha Wilcox, the daughter Of Jesse Viii
coz, all oil and must estnnblc man, and took
her to the wild and s|mrsely inhabitanted region
Of Northern Wisconsin, where his career Vi
crime was so suddenly brought to u close On
Saturday last