The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-09-18
HEAVY FORGEHf On NEW YORK
BANK

THE NATIONAL CITY BANK niULErED our OF sEyEs
ri.FIyE ThousaSD DoLIARs-ruE roR0ER An EN-
anhiIRnAD "a ta GoSpyGroR -ARnEsr OF TIE cuLPRrI
! Oh tho ilth Of last July gentlenianly-,ookinJ
man called Mt the National City Bank, OF this cit
anu presented t check Tor s75,No. purporling t,
York Central Railroad On tho back of tho ci,oeI
was tue following indorsoment
The American Express Company will collect and
| deliver at Albany. HENRY KEEP
The msn who presented tho check stated that he
| was messenger of tho American ExrIcss Com.
PanS' inc Superintendent Of which i..dsent him to
me letter the ortcrs OF AIR. Keep. Tho signature
y. 'aihlerhlt appearing sonninn the paying teller
Sr. Worth unslispcions NJ to tho character of the
nia,l, paiu o'sf the illl amount. Si5.001 Several
| "aSs passed before tho forgery discovered
On On tho 18th OF August, alr. Vanderbilt, in ex-
! it, and the excitement that followed at the b.nk
may be better imagined than described, The
affair was immediately laid hcforc Superintendent
| IN the hands Of dctectiSe George Elder who nj
oneo, on reooiSing his instructions, put himself
together to do whatever he could toward obtaining
ento to the whereabouts uf the hold forger FirEf
and foremost, owing to the artistic taste of tho
PAYING teller, ne was provided with an e1cellont
and ink, and furnished with this caae mse,a @s Pen a
started on his man@nyerngs- Al Harlem lio flrst
strns; struck his tra, where he discovered lint the
Of Of Lewis, DepoysEf and Matthews; thencu 10
ess es sam Sad fsom nas e cS,an place yo
was found to be lukuriating in puntifuluess OBJ
tainod by his i!l-sotten moneys He had pur-
s9000, both Of which ho had Heavily stouked and
i, nad employed a large number Of meu to work
them. In his barns were found forty very vaua-
PIC horses aud several teams, worth each from
S3Ss' to $1,000. besides all those no Ind several
liGht Wagons. any amount OF fancy harness, and
altogether, Farm ind stock, he was in possession
OF proporiy Ia tho valuo Of sIO,OOO Ho wSs ar
rested ny MIR. Elder, who was accompanied by
GGaFtaIn iatea nnd detective Samuel a. Fills OF the
tho apprehension of The foreer lint few hours
before tho rascal was in his barn Attending To his
horses, s M and seemed highly indignant at tho intrri-
!, Mhen the priaoner was arrested, ten thousand
nouars IN greenbacEs we're found about his per-
son aiter the officers had searched his pockets,
anu they ascertained from tho farm banda Hbo
had peen employed by tho man with the three
nandio, 70 his nnmo, that he was Of the most
Es disposition and constantly carried in
CURED acres heavily loaded whip, which ho did
hot no. hosltate 70 use upon tho backs OF those who
desired they SHOULD. He is described an a stout
t9nt, portlY looking follow, with slight poliah OF
tn the gentleman about him, but with strong look
OF the bul!y In his rugged countenhncs.
The rionds of the forger were not idle so soon
as the arrest Of their chum was brutcl about
on of ,sh sourn aref his apprehension they sued
to have served on the offccrs lfbe iatter were
inf Imed OF their Intention and as quick as theT
could harness team Of horses thcy nut tho man
IN wagon, and. at dead Of niEht, drove RAPIDLY |
out OF Illinois, nor did they stop until they had |
teaehe9 ! he Doyer station, Indiana Thence Detec-
tive Elder set out for this city, where be arrived
safely with his prisoner J7esterdsy. The forger |
Vas confronted by the paying taller of tho bank,
f1iiy identified him as the man who had present.
ed ne forged check. The accused says that he |
Ms ton nn nd 1 connesor on the Albany and Bos
ing blackberry station Detective Elder had an nj
tachment issued against Tho farms which the |
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