Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-07-16
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TRIAL OF 4 FORGERs FEMALE ASSO-
clATF-Caroline Blank, the young German
girl who presented a check forged in the
name Of Warder. Mitchell " Co. for so 40
at The Nassau Bank, was yesterday placed
on trial before Judge Sutherland. in the
Court Of General Sessions, charged with
forging or uttcring the check. At the time
she offered the check its payment was re-
fused. She then said that she received il i'm
payment OF n l3rfn IN ONO. She
lowed 10 60. but was followed by the officers
who hoped thus TO catch the principal in the
crime. her story on the stand yesterday
was that she had recently come from Ger
many and was living with a man NAMED
AIolSe Harmon as his wife; that he handed
her the check, took her To the bank and told
her what TO say, and that she acted under his
instructions and knew nothing of the forged
character of the check. The jury disagreed
Tour of them giving credit to her story
4. Tribune, 18Th.
IT IS SUGGESTED that clergymen through
out the United ateS take up col lectiOnS for
the completion Of the Washington mOnu-
ment. The monument should by all means
be completed before the centennial begins or
you may chance to hear some such talk as
lhiS between a visitor from the far Orient
and q citizen of Washington: What is that
absurd mass Of stone yOnder intended for"
IIhat Is monument TO the memory OF
George Washington" George whoo-nOt
the George Washington or Your great RevO-
luton OF l.I6. | presume" "YeS, he is the
very man. George Washington was the
Father of his Country. was he not?" Gle
was" "And you Americans are wonderfuIiv
proud OF him-yOu love, honor, and revere
hlm more than any other man. living or
dead" I'VE do" well. should certainly
supp oSe so from the sort Of monument Won
have erected to his emOry."-Colg-Joly.
\ TRAMP CAUSES TWO CHILDREN TO RE
DROWSED.-At Sullivan, Ind. last Sunday
night, during a terrible thunder storm. Mrs.
richard Pigg: expecting her husband, and
ii'oi liS u itolSt OulSluC the mouse. opened
the door, when a strange man stood before
her. This so frightened her that she caught
up her Two little children, and bidding the
third to follow her started for neighborS
mouse. 1t was necessary to cross "A small
stream on log, and i'm doing so the little
CIR! who followed fell into the water. Mrs
T. was SO frightened that she dropped her
two other children to assist her daughter. and
both children sank beneath the water and
We're drowned. The mother is nearly frantic
over The accident The sneak who frightened
her made good his eScape.