The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-05-10
Extensive Forgery IN acknowledgements
WIN a New York Girl.

from the C1Dcnnatt GoZctte, may D.
One Of the most extensive forgeriea which has bean
peri eraed in our city in oog time was brought to
Ugh. Tuesday, although the facts in regard TO we're
kept quiet until yesterday The particulars about
folows,-On Saturday a young man named James n
Dubois, clerk employed in the office OF the Hauni
Sn 600 a. e Counter Of panS and The
with which he departed The check WAS filled up, "Pay
70 April Ply Roll, !" and was signed by g. s. LHommo-
dieu President and f. Short Secretary and notwith
anopg the check was presented some ten days before
the usual time Of drawing money for the monthly pay
meDts 70 the the fact did not excite the sus
picicps Of the bank clerk.
TT manner 10 which the check was procured,
ss as Of 0' was s
habit OF signing few checks In blank in the usual
book, for use by the secretary as they should be
wanted On Saturday he left two pages Six checks,
hue sigred, and the book was deposited in the usual
place The company had recently had printed new
back of this book Dubois had cut three pages nnc
checks upon which he had doubtless been experimenting
open the signatures When he succeeded in copying
The signature Of the President with satisfactory accuracy
and opportunity offered dd Saturday after the
Secretary bad left tho Office he cut from the second page
its place the check which he had already prepared him
Sc I, and TO which hs had attached the of Nr.
tme of the President AS every check was printed
The face Nct good, uness countersgned by the
secretary, was necessary 70 forge the signature OF Mr.
F. H. Short, which done, though not in manner 70
escape detection had 1t been subjected to scrutiny
The check presented Saturday afternoon, and
paid, and the forgery not discovered until Tuesday
sefnoon. the book not having been used in the
time when tie pass book was taken to the lafayette
Bank to be balanced Upon making inquiries it was
asceltaned that young Dubois had not been at the Office
since ga urdey his usual boarding place, and the
forgery traced him. Further investigate
developed the fact that he had not only perperaed the
CRIME we have described which he must have had in
conts mpaton for time, but that IN his subsequent
fight from the city he had taken with him . young lady
about eighteen OF age the sister Of the wife Of
very respectable citizen, TO whose grief will not add
another papg by giving publicity 10 her name. The
guilty partner in the fight Of the youDg forger said to
be handsome and well educated and until this affair had
borne rreproachablc character. She bad been resi-
of the city about six monhe having from New
York city reside with her brother In As
the fact became known that they had Left the city, the
Telegraph brought into requeition In every direction
hopes 70 intercept them before they got out OF the
country.
Young Dubois only about nineteen years Of age and
had the employ OF the railroad company for the
eighteen months, during which time his conduct,
Ear the officers had any knowledge bad been above
suspicion BE prompt in his attention 10 business,
had the entire ooa fence Of his employers. He
OF the youngest clerks in office, and generally
employed IN asserting and counting the cancelled tickets.
tbs bah Is and associations supposed to be good al
though since hs light has been tanned that hts mo
RAILS when not under the eye OF bic friends not OF
the stsicttsl In addition TO bis apparent correct
cspoyiment be regular attendant at Christie chapel
and was the librarian IN the Sunday school. His pune
usiy 10 attending The school had been marked tina,
hw absence on Sunday last excited much nQu but 60
suericor was entertained that il voluntary, the
result OF or,mo Should the money not be recovered The
i0rs VIII, We presume, fall entirely upon tho bank