The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-10-21
Lightning Being Faster Than the Iror
Horse a Bevy of Bad Young People
are Checked in Their 81,
Crooked Career.

Early on Thursday morning last the
cashier of a Council Bluffs bank paid
800 I'VE the counter to a young lady
named Julia Whitaker, who previous
ly presented the man of money with a
check for that amount signed by her
mother, a respectable and well-to-do
milliner of the wicked city beyond the
Big Muddy. Sand thereby hangs a
tale.n
The check was a forgery. The girl,
who is only II years old, showed no
trepidation when the cashier scanned
her face to learn the reason for her APP
pearance at the bank at an unusual
hour and with a check for SO large an
amount. She took the money, counted
it carefully, babe him good morning,
and walked out. She was soon joined
by two young hoodlums, John Gala
han, aged Is, and Will Haggerty, aged
10, and the trio started towards Oma-
ha.
On the way they met Olivia Story, a
girl Of the same age as Julia, who was
IN her way to school. A little earnest
persuasion IN the part of Julia and her
companions caused Miss Story to join
them, and the quartette were soon in
Omaha, where they purchased tickets
to San Francisco. They then rode
about the city until the departure of
the Pacific express train, which they
boarded, leaving behind them home and
friends, and setting their faces toward
the setting sun and the gates of per-
dition.
Mrs. Whitaker missed her daughter
at the dinner table, but did not worry
about her until evening, when Mrs.
Story called to inquire after her daugh-
ter. Search was instituted for the
girls, and before bedtime they had
been traced to Omaha. The next morn
ing the anxious parents continued the
search, and at noon had discovered
everything-the forged check. the for
nation Of the excursion party and de-
parture for the west. The telegraph
was called into service, and the sheriff
at Sidney ordered to board the train
and arrest the party, but the train had
then passed the station. Conductor
Seeley was notified to watch the party,
and see that they did not leave the cars,
while a dispatch to Sheriff O'Brien
caused the attendance of himself and
Deputy Joe Fisher at the depot on the
arrival of the train, at 8 O'Clock.
The boys jumped off at the depot and
walked up town to purchase some
cigars, while the girls paid a visit to
the Railroad house lunch stand. Nick
followed the boys, and when they re-
turned to the depot arrested them. Joe
Fisher Swallowed the girls, and at the
proper moment invited them to walk
up town with him, an invitation which
they accepted under protest although
Joe is not a ~bad-looking young MANI,
and were escorted to Tim Dyer's, where
they were given a room and made com-
Portable. Sheriff O'Brien gave the boys
cells in his hotel at the court house,
where they were searched. One of them
declared that he vas penniless, and Joe
Fisher believed him until he told him
to pull off his boots. The boy asked
Joe to do it for him, but Joe demurred,
and when the young rascal stopped to
remove one boot a wallet dropped from
his coat sleeve. 1t proved to contain
the entire fund of the quartette, nearly
three hundred dollars, which was the
amount remaining of the original seven
hundred raised on the forged check,
four hundred being paid for the railroad
tickets and a few dollars for meals, etc.,
on the road.
Julia Whitaker, the girl who planned
the escapade and furnished funds for
carrying it out by the committal Of a
great crime, expresses no contrition for
her misdeeds, and says she will not go
back to her home, but will stay here
and work for her living. She asserts
that five hundred dollars of the money
belonged to her. She has a step-father
whom she dislikes.
Olivia Story is the daughter Of the
roadmaster of the c. B. Sc @. R. R. at
Council Bluffs, and is % repenting,
weeping bitterly and calling for her
mamma.
The boys, Callahan and Haggerty,
are hard cases, and take matters very
coolly:. They claim to be thorough
bred" saying that they egot away with
SIC, 900, :" and if not checked in their
wicked ways will languish inside of
penitentiary walls ere many years.
The relatives of the girls are expect
ed here to-day, when further develop
ments in this interesting case will un-
doubtedly be made.
All trains from the east will probably
be late to-day, owing to the prevalence
Of battling head winds.
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