Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-03-10
A FEMALE FoRcER.
A Young Girl In a Bad Criminal
80 Role.
Flora 0. Barry Attempts to Negotiate
Forged Check, IS Detected, Arrested
and Placed Behind the BEL
Iaire Bars.

The good people OF Bellaire are consider
ably torn up over an attempt to negotiate q
forged check for $500 at the First National
bank, yesterday afternoon. The would.be
forger is girl OF sixteen summers. She
gives her name as Flora o. Barry, and is
now behind the bars in the Bellaire Jail.
She appeared at the bank mentioned yester-
day afternoon about 3 o'clock and present
ed the check. 1t called for $500 and bore
the signature OF p. I. King. The paying
teller, w. J. Morrison, on
II WAS NOT GENUINE
and asked the girl where she got it. "From
Mr.. King" was the answer Harry Ran
dolph, the bookkeeper, started for Mr..
King, and Mr.. Morrison, a nephew of
Kings, placing his hat on his head, said:
Never mind, Harry, l shall 60" and so he
started. No sooner had he departed than
the girl started out of the door, She ran
down as far as Tom Lilley's restaurant, up
the alley back of him, down Guernsey
street and out the B. & o. tracks. Mr.. Jas.
Kelley, the paying teller, started in pur-
suit. The police were notified and Officers
Archer, Drugan and Maggie followed. Kelly
followed her as far as the B. & o. "Y"
in the western part OF the town. She
too feet footed for him. Arriving at they
be became exhausted and could run no
further. Archer now appeared, and jumped
an engine overtaking the young lady a
short distance beyond the stock yards. She
was brought to the city and locked up.
About o'clock she was arraigned before
the Mayor. He read the charge, and she
answered
"NoT GUILTY."
Messrs. King, Morrison and Drugan we're
summoned. Mr.. Morrison testified to the
above facts. Mr.. King said the signature
was not genuine, and the marshal substan-
tiated the facts above mentioned. At the
conclusion OF the testimony the Mayor held
her under s., 900 bond, TO appear before the
Common Pleas Court at the next term.
She failed to give bond and was again
locked up: She is an attractive
about four feet ten inches, wears a black
teaspoon dicer, light, cheap sacque, light
dress and cloth top shoes. She informed
the reporter that her real home is at
MoundSvlle, but says she has been living
with her aunt Miss Margaret Litner, back
Of st. Clairsville, for some time, her mother
having died some years ago Her father,
she says, is riverman, and has always
followed the river for living. She says
that she
MASHED YOUNG NAN IN BRIDGEPORT
named Charles Dale, few days ago. She
met him at the La Belle glass works yester-
day, received the check and was told
TO present il at the Bellaire bank receive
the $500 and meet him at the
same place in the evening at 5 o'clock. He
told her to bring the money to him and he
would give her IS. She admits that she
knew that it was not right, but did not
think there was any penalty for the Of
fence. She regrets the act sadly and is
quite nervous, crying like child.
Her story is not believed. While another
person is evidently connected with the for.
gerry. it is believed she tells this story to
throw the authorities off their guard ON
Ger Turner went to bridgeport last evening,
but Dale had never been heard of up there.
The forger has been living with Porter
fields, OF this city, for some while and might
have better character.
Mr.. p T. King is well known dry goods
man of Bellaire and is wealthy. The sig
nature was mans hand, bat very poor
imitation. No better man could have been
selected for working" than be.