, 1880-02-22
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LOCAL CRIME.
.nprc1-En FOR FORGERY.


Charles A. Warner, q young man OF stu
dio,s habits. and reputation hitherto unblem-
ished so far as the police know. was yester-
day arrested by Detectives Wiley and Am
stein upon charge of forgery and at
tpmpting to obtain money by. false pre-
lenses. Along about one month ago
a chuckle-headed boy wandered into the
office of the Western Union Telegraph Com
nany's office at the corner Of La Sale and
Washington streets. He did not appear to
know what he wanted there, and no one else
knew, although he wore a new cap similar
to those worn by boys employed as messen-
ecrs by the Company. He was. noticed,
and and questioned, and readily told, what
swered sls ousiness an advertisement in daily
paper, and had been hired BY a man IN,
known to him to go to me flrss ta,1 Nah1oHn. ~
$500, purporting to have been drawn by u. 2.
to the Western Union Telegraph Company;
The check was examined, and found @
t. BE- 1rg neay fexse exse and lie
stamp stamp used by j. ]. S. Wilson, Secretary OF
the Company Nlr. Wilson consulted Alr.
Stone at once, and both made their way to
gosaf goa be nsfaadfMfi oand It s % tine e fGs 8s ge @
the most the police could do was to send
tie boy home, retain the cap, and await
farther developments 4 day. or, two
ago an advertisement exactly similar to tne
s eeyes go 2cSe Soy m named @ RaRk komas ANY Collins liz to
answer the advertisement and get engaged;
Yesterday the boy went to the Merchants
Loan and Trust Company with cheek sllnl-
lar to the first, except that the amount was
altered to $3.50 Warner remained in wait
ing for the boy to return, in doorway
on Monroe street, where heWas arrested.
At Central Station he save the name OF j. J.
Wilson, and insisted on being so addressed:
In his possession were found Qnantlty OF
lithograpll Of Stones signature, published rs
an advertisement of some writing Institute.
It was from this that Warner obtained his
copy. IT, ~
No. 39l West Madison street, a house rented
and sub-let by his widowed mother, and there
found a quantity of type of all descriptions,
rubber stamps, and machines for printing
i'll short, very neat forger's outfit.
There are some points about the case Thlcn ,tt Y
generally suspected. The "W. U. IT, caps
Which, lie furnished the boys were obtained
from the factory Of J. c. Goebcl 4 Co;
1t is stated Oh good authority that warner
to extort money from Mrs. L: E. Day,
welEknown resident of this city, who was
robbed supposedly By q relative of q large
sum Of bonds. He was caught in the act,
and it is believed was sent to Joliet Tor the
otfense. The present police officers at the
Central Station certainly would not know
him, but Capt AfcGarigle would be able to
identify him readily.
Detectives Ryan and Swanson yesterday
arrested in store on Madison street one
Rudolph Reinhold, who was formerly EN-
ployed as bookkeeper by Bernard Bern
ard, Of Boston. He quit there some
thing less than year ago. and came
to This city. Last month Mr. Bernard
was given a cancelled check for $500 which
had been paid by the Park National Bank to
some bank in this city. Upon close eXamina-
ton Mr. Bernard found that the date had
been raised from Jan. 8, 1879 to 1850, and also
that the Endorsement of one Hobbs was
forgery. He knew the check was spurious,
but yet could not deny his own
handwriting and signature upon the
face of it. Finally he recollected that
about a year before he had sent his book
keeper, Reinhold to Hobbs with check for
the amount, but Hobbs wishing cash had re-
fused it, and he had then told Reinhold to
destroy it. It was evident that he had not
destroyed it, but had changed the date:
forged the Endorsement, and then obtained
the cash through a Chicago bank. An officer
is to be sent OH at once from Boston to take
charge Of him,