Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1863-02-17
LOCAL MATTERS.
[FrOm Last Evenings EditIOn.I

1 ARREST OF A FORGER.-This morning
| about half past nine O'Clock a stranger came
to the Merchants Bank and presented a
check for S945, purpOrting to have been
/ drawn by James NJ. Jones, Esq, in favor Of
Ed. L. Brown. The Cashier of the Bank, Mr..
Wm. L. Cutter, requested the stranger to
step across the street to Mr.. Jones' Office and
bring him to vouch for the genuineness of
the check. The stranger said he would do
so. he started across the street as though
going to Mr.. Jones' Office, but Mr.. Cutter,
who watched him through the window, saw
him turn and go down Superior street. This
aroused the suspicious of Mr.. Cutter, and he
proceeded at once to find Mr.. Jones. He
found that gentleman at the Court House,
and showed him the check that the stranger
had presented at the Bank. Mr.. Jones said
the signature resembled his very closely, but
he had no knowledge of the check. It being
evident that the stranger was fsrger, Mr..
Jones got Sheriff Lewis and a couple of off,
GERS to go with him and look the rascal up.
AT the corner Of Superior and Water streets
they separated, Mr.. Jones going down supe-
rior and the remainder going down Water
street. Mr.. Jones went down to the railroad
track, and thence walked on towards the de-
pot. When near st. Clair street be met a
man walking up from the depot whom he sus-
pected of being the forger from the descrip-
tiOn he received of him from Mr.. Cutter
The stranger passed him, when Mr.. Jones
turned around and followed. The stranger
quiekened his pace gradually, without look
ing around, however, and Mr.. Jones did not
Oversake him until he had passed the foot Of
Vineyard street hill. He then collared the
man, saying, " VIII you tell me your name?''
70 What difference does it maker" enuuired
the stranger. Mr.. Jones told him it might
make considerable difference; that he want
ed him to accompany him to the Merchants
Bank; that he suspected him of being the
man who offered forged check at that Bank
this morning. The stranger said he wasn't the
man at all, hadn't been to the Merchants Bank,
hadn't time to 60 there, &c. Mr. Jones said
he should compel him to go. The stranger
then put his hand in his coat pocket at the
side, as though about to draw out pistol.
Mr.. Jones grabbed his arm with one hand,
and putting his other hand in the pocket
wrested from the stranger a sIung shot which
was strapped to his wrist. Without more
ado, he then took the fellow by the arm, and
menacing him with the slung shot, marched
his prisoner up town. Coming up Superior
hill, the man endeavored to jerk away, but
Mr.. Jones held him firmly, and told him if
he didn't come along quietly he would try the
slung-shOt on him. He made no further re-
sistanoe. Arriving at the Merchants Bank,
the fellow was recognized by Mr. Cutter as
the one who presented the forged check. A
haekman can testify to having seen the man
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once. He gave the name of Brown, we be-
lieve, although that doubtless is not his real
name. He is a man about twenty-five or six
years of age, has light mustachc, wears
light-cOlOred pants, dark overcOat, and
dress hat. Mr.. Jones says he never saw him
before to his knowledge. He is stranger
here, evidently, and bungIer at the forgery
business. He stands pretty good chance
of going to the Penitentiary.
Brown came to the American House on
Friday night last, and has been stopping
there since. He registered his name, " Ed
ward L. Brown, New York" He told Mr..
BrOckway that he was collector for New
York house. He had no trunk, only small
satchel. The Sheriff sent some men to search
his room this forenoon. Nothing in particu-
lar was found. A handkerchief in the evalise
was marked with the name of q Goddard -
another was marked Young" He is quite
a gentlemanly-appearing man, and we'll
dressed. He will be examined Tomorrow,
probably, before Justice Benham.