The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-02-28
tnsolT Clsrog. Assn 81 rom

II 6psofT Cfrcg. ri fsEa Tof1ED: foIn
the Baltimore Sun, 27thl smart cl 3, sss.
raising swiDdle was foiled at the MIRO ~ ~
|tional Bank, No. 81 South street, near FL FL,
change place, yesterday morning, snu a.s.
after The bank opened. On iuesaas aM,
noon it seemed that n gentcel-looklns nla1.'
calling himself E. s. Dean, appiica 10 WI ;.
Samuel r. Waite ut the countlns-rooni :" ',
his shin. chandlery establishment, coInet ~, y.
Hughes and Coyington streets, sta.'s ~ t ~.
he desired to make remittance OF ~. "
creditor by mail, and preferred sendS:
cberI, for the amount. This accommodation
Inc asked Mr.. Waite to give, and he cohsep e.'
ia do so. drawing check for t"enty'hSt
dollars on the Third National Bank made
navable TO Z. S.. Dean, for which the jasI
was handed over by the OPERATOR VINO Vnen
departed, Afterwards Mr.. Waite tIought
over the matter, and rejecting on the 'rtS
and wiles of the blood of adroit check-ralsers
HOGAN TO suspect that trouble might ehsue
a. cautionary measure, therefore, nc
mentioned the circumstance ut the bank yes
terdav morning, where he went. the 1rsl
thing. TO deposit a considerable sum. Sir'
Waite was among the first customers OF tine
flay. and gave the number of the check, ], 49s
siGned bv himself, requesting that payment
he stoned if it should beoliered. Ina very
few minutes after Mr.. Waite had departed, q
oenteeI-looking man presented to the paying
telier check, signed by Samuel r. Waite
reo,,esting the Third National Bank to pay
10 T.. f, Thorne, or bearer, 81 ,2o0. The
check was closely scrutinized, the number
.49S. being identical with the $50 check just
forbidden by N<. Waite. The words "twen'
ty-fiye dollars of the original had been taken
out by chemicals, and the larger sum written
down in perfect imitation of Mr. wales
hand. The signature and the number re-
manned as originally written. The back was
Endorsed with cleverly forged signature Of
Mr.. Waite, the design being to facilitate pay
mcnt without any trouble, as might have
been the case without Identification, the teller
not knowing Mr.. Thornc personally.
simultaneously with the presentation OF
the check another stranger, evidently an ac
complice, pushed in with ten cents in his
hand. asking for that amount in stamps. The
teller. without allowing bis attention to ,bt
distracted by tile ten.cent man, quietly H.
formed the applicant that he did not sci
stamps, and then handing Mr.. Thorne, OF
Dean. the check, informed him that 1T
would have to see 1ir. Waite before thai
could be paid. Both the men left the banf
at the same time, ore with his ien.cenf nott
and the other with his bogus check, neither
of them saying word. The teller followed
tbom ont and watched them from the corner
as they went up Lombard, where they were
Joined by third party, and disappeared II
Calvert street. The man who offered tht
raised check is described as tine-looklng
well.buit fellow, with dark hair and eyes
aged about thirty-eight or forty years
dressed neatly and wearing heavy brown
oyereoat. The man of the ten-cent note bat
red hair and russell e-whiskers. He wa
not good-looking. They will probably turf
I'D again.