The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-07-29
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TWO or THEM CAPTURED IN NEW YORK AND
FULLY iDENTFIED-TuEiR PLAN OF ORE
RATioNs--wHAr THE POLICE KNOW ABOUT
THEM.
Especial to the Baltimore AncIican.l
NEW York, July 21.-The recent forge.
iies by which Baltimore banks suffered to
the extent OF several thousand dollars have
been traced 10 New York operators, and
men believed TO be members OF the gang are
now The prisoners OF Inspector Byrnos.
Those arrested are thought TO be the ones
concerned In utering the forged checks.
the forgers thus Tar having eludcd the POI
lice. The scheme wasswell plsnned and
successfully carried through, although the
forgery itself was clumsily executed. and
not calculated TO deceive any officer
in metropolitan bank. The first OF
The checks was presented to the Merchants
National Bank OF Baltimore on the 10th in
slant. II was for g. 100, aud was promptly
paid Subsequently. on the same day, bogus
checks for S3,90l.50 and $780, were also
presented and paid. These checks were
made out in the name Of ID. Fabnesiock
and Middendolff, Oliver & Co. The Third
National Bank was also vietimized on the
same day with two bogus checks. To which
the name Of j. II. FISHER had been forged
They were for Sl,39i and Sl,206 30. They
were paid without question by the paying
teller, Mr.. Medairy. Inspector Byrnes
showed them to-day that, in comp1ri-
son with genuine check drawn by Mr..
Fisher. the counterfeit is an unskilful piece
Of work. All OF The f0rgerics escaped dis
covery until the operators were out OF the
city. Then description OF the men who
had handled The bogus paper was sent out
10 the police OF the large cities. The New
York detectives were the first to make any
rcpOri, and last week IT was thought that
they had struck a trace OF the gang. In
snecior Byrncs sent TO Baltimore, and Tell
els Morris, OF the Merchants, and Medairy,
OF the Third National Bank, with several
other gentlemen who had seen the persons
who presented the checks, came on.
Aftet comparing notes with them the po-
lice were convinced that they were on the
right track. To-day Detectives O'Neil,
Adams. and Hines arrested George Bell
aud Henry Cleary. notorious thieves and
forgers. Charles Farran was also arrested
| bv Detective steven. lie is thought TO be
the man who sold some bonds to Mr.. Fisher,
who Is a broker. Shortly before the fOrgerieS
he had obtained the signatures on genuine
checks for small amounts OF the men whose
names were forged. His identification is not
vet complete. Cleary was positively identi-
| lied by Paying.Teler Mcdairy and others,
and Bell was fully recognized by Mr. Morris
and another clerk, with whom he had talked
| i'm the bank. Farran was once arrested
with the skifu and tirSt-clas fOrger Brock
way in connection with f0rgerieS on the
Phoenix Bank, OF this city. lie escaped
convic' ion. This connection Is probably
the ground on which the police reach the
conclusion that the Baltimore work was
done by Brockway. This is not likely TO
be true, for the work lacks The excellence
that marks other forgclies known to have
come from his hands.
Bel has frequently been arrested for
operations in forged paper, and has been
sentenced several times in tins city and
| Philadelphia. He was convicted IN the
latter city Of knocking down bank mes
Sen.er i'm the street and attempting TO rob
| him. Cleary is a criminal OF the same
stamp, and has been arrested for other
offences lnan that OF attempting 10 neSo-
tiate bogus checks. He was sentenced in
this city TO three and bali years in Sing
! Sing for burglary in a Ninth-ward store.
Bell and Clcary went 10 England several
months ago with large gang Of fUrgers
| from this country. In London quarrel
occurred, and the gang split. Bell and
Cleary were put aboard a steamship, and
their fare paid to New York, in order that
the party might be rid of them. They ar
rived about fortnight ago.