New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-04-19
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ATTEMPT TO DEFRAUD TIE NASSAU BANK.
A FokGsp CHECK FOR $4,000 PRESENTED ny
q gMAN WOMAN.

q ENtAN WOMAN
An attempt WAS made on Saturday 10 oe-
fraud tho Nassau Bank. al Be'knhn ana N''SauStS VI
no ,r,y 100000. During the forenoon young woman
neatly dressed black entered the bank ana presented
a check purporiing 10 have been drawn by warden
Mitchell & CO. Of irngl l. Cato, for ST., 100. The
woman cOuld not speak English, consequently wheh
aSed about il she could make no reply until an inter
prefer WIS obtained when sha said that she bad sofa her
late husbands farm in Ohio and the check had bon
given 10 her in payment thereof As check oil the same
number hal been paid weeks ago. sns-
melon was excited and the womu WAS detained
lone enough for the bank officers TO telegraph
20 sprng del Ohio and receive reply pronounss te
cheek torgcrl upon M ah'iot ., 80 lei, rae
bunk III dine and went along Nasstl-st toward spruce,
and ON arriving at tho corer, looked around Tor rev
moments. then assoI on or twic' Ioa1 ~" s III
finally getting into lllr lave car Two ce,evtNS ss
lowed her t. The st Nicholas Hotel one Of the ohices
who spoke German y4in eotnS To show PEI tno MaJ
The hotel ~ the hotel The woman IOOkeu aIC1 h.
anxiOusly il she expected io meet some person; NV
TINT person not being in sight, she was i'ou 70 nn ~
hotel officers arrested her sue wa 'dhii ~
si,Tarrs ,ricre She w9s locked mp she gave her
name rs Caroline Biack, aso ID years, fccsnE I
. i, ,J ,rs tied Ir trial in DEFAULT oi $4,000
bah, IN te charge OF attIn Jtnt "a pass forged checH'
reporter of IHE 7 iBUNE caeGat the IonbS ycst'r-
ds, mi ssy ibr m,oner who throuIn al interpreter,
sii tat Size had n in this country about seven weeks,
having arrived on the - anisiiip Schiicr Shc" M
arriyi slo had been living with AOi~e IL 'uimcrwith
vh, el inst he anne aopna ntcd AZ Dire den Germany.
She had mothor aud sister in Vienna. Austria bat her
father md been dead about year. sac was Ewing ~
Northumberland i'm Drrsd, at the slime she met III nlncr,
who having been IN AM RIGA persuaded Ter that $40
would get along better in tls country. She l oiig
known him two months she lett Dresden with niin
for America and arriving IN tais country lacy Ook UP
their residence together ~ t!ODOkth Oh Sut9 nun"
in they came TO this city Toy walked to spruce IN
Nassiusts. ana Hammer pointed out to nor INC Nd'l
Bank whpre she was pres nj q en-, OK Whch lt ild
given her He had tol her the story she WAS 10 ten cor"
corning tho way the check came into hor possession
lie also told her TO RETURN AFTER she ma sot tnS
money 20 the place whcIO he tAen Stood ana sue ula
not hnd him to around the block IT, however ne
was not IA he seen, to TO the 81 Nichutis
Hotel where she wOnd certainly find him Ator iiNIh
,nt 500 him a,in She did not know the cheek was
forged and supposed that ta story she related aDo u
frirni OF Hammer Sine did not know tue name Of tno
street in H0bOAcn where she had lived ana only KIN
such pia,ss In NrwYOrk had been SHOWN {" htr ny
Hammer whom sue described gmd-o0k'nS young
/ man about 20 years old with IA slight musticho