The daily gazette., 1875-09-23
FIRST FIRST EDITION
AN ALLEGED ifoRGERY.,

=, visr dhhsiaE azt noBHaD OF 4
a CHECK NIECE ON WHICH HIS ENDORSEMENT a'Raf
tsFoRGED, o,s az ..I-9
alleged forgery has come to light
AZ AMIarvlend in which the First Ma
tcnn, ta ,hs particulars Of which the LEGAL
xa T.,s ~ relates as follows: -
s9S, s9nsriog The first day. OF, ,thc Agrlcul-,
~ pi Fsir held In our borough, a man
tulsi Washington Eastbournc, resid-
nsmv,rp 0, rpnsselviife. thiscouhty, came to
i9g !, Chester and negotiated a loan
,,S MeS' Messrs. Pyle & Brown, bankers,
miln ,hs b,e ann OF $3.50, he receiving a
for " sno an The First, National Bank for
euo' .ho amount. He did not. draw the
.ns mcoey. s and while here it appears. he
% n.So Ike acquaintance Of very plcas'
rnsuu uGuentleman, who was endeayoring
ah. oS6erate among the people attending
WUoEEyhibition ia tho wayof selling
", .ma sort of q patent right -Eastburne
This gentleman, who was very
ssnnSidlike snu and bland,Y became. quite
- innate and on Tuesday, it is said,
,Ssv left our borough together and
hs,oook sao themselves to- Wilmington
Taloware, Te;Uy In that city they drank
,.rs,her and got more or less intoxica-
w snd Easburne on Tunsday night
.ech jodging In wagon standing in
Sos o of the hotel yards. Onthe follow
Tuy ;us morning he awoke to find his hat
.arSa .rS travelling companion both missing
snS I mnoa investigating the interior OF
Ms % nocketbook, the chesk was also
foupd te be missing and he at once
.usnscted his newly found friend [ y as
being the thief. ..t..
p II annears that til estranger afterquit.
inc Wilmington went to Delmar, a
nSlsce S near Maryland line. and stopped
al hotel kept by a han named Hodg-
.on and with whom he settled hIs
hotel l charges by, passing, over the
check after first endorsing it in the
name Of Washington Eastbunn!'-
t. SdSseduentiy the check was endorsed
MNr. Hodgson, and. given to Adams
Eypress Company for collection, and
-- nv The company 1t was also endorsed
and presented to the First National
=. Bank of West Chester, and the money
paid to the company.
On the day following Eastburne ad.
visrd Messrs Pyle g. Brown, of this
place Of his loss, and requested them
10 stop payment, and the money being
then In the Express Company's hands,
they we're forthwith advised by theil
agent at West Chester, to return it ol
hold IL until further orders.
The stranger who gave his name az
Washington Eastbunn, was afterward.
arrested at Crisfield, Md. In regard to
the check he said:
"Iwon the check in Wilmington
from Washington -'Eastbourne," at 9
gambling table and brought it down tc
Delmar aud there transferred it to Mr.
'Hodgson, by putting my name on the
back of 1t, which is Washington Est
bum. l have right to put my name
on anything, the bank cashier should
have noticed the spelling" Estbunn
as he calls himself, but which isnot hi
name, is tremendous man In size
being greatly over six feet hign; hs
says he was fifteen years a sailor and
three years on the police force in the
sth ward in New York City. '''-.''
BE showed the Magistrate how he
wrote the name. Estbunn, as distin
guished from Eastbourne, and his
writing was an excellent specimen d
beautfful penmanship.
The bank cashier went down tc
Delmar, Tuesday, in company will
Washington Eastburne to be epresent Al
The hearing, ......,. go.
The THEFT being committed in Della
ware an effort will be made to have
the trial take place at New Castle In
stead otin Maryland, that place being
the choice of those interested, ..'s :