The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1890-10-08
THE ALLEGED FORGERs.
Their Cases Are Called for Hearing
Saturday at Ten O'clock Before
Mayor Couch. They Break Down
and Make Full Confession.

and Make Full Confession.
For the past two weeks the interests of
wholesale cheese dealers in this plac
have been unit in attempting to ferret
out and place under arrest gang OF for
gers who have secretly been laying plans
to extort money from them by the use of
forged orders for the last year past. After
the attempt made upon Laundon, Win
decker & Co., as noted In our last issue,
1t was ascertained that an order signed by
q. Lsughery Of Sullivan, tor $50 had
been cashed by the firm Of G. w. Crosier
& Co., Saturday, Sept. 81 which was
found to be forged. II was then decided
to make a thorough search for the rascalS
and II possible bring them to justice. By
the pointers gained in the chase made on
Monday afternoon by the officer in the
interest Of Laundon, Windecker & Co., 1t
was very evident that the gang resided
near Homerville and by Wednesday morn
idg II. U. Mcdonald, operating farm
under lease In that vicinity and Jacob
Haytt, farm laborer were placed under
arrest and brought to town. The former
appeared to be very innocent Of what he
was arrested for, but the latter was inclin-
ed 10 resist but when he saw that resist
ance was useless he surrendered. Wednes-
day evening Mcdonald broke down
and made clean breast Of matters. He
said that his wife had written the orders
at his instance and Haytt presented them
and was to receive half the proceeds. The
news was carried TO Haytt and at first
he made complete denial Of the whole
charges, but he soon decided that he had
better tell the truth, which he did. Mr.
Follansbee, Of the firm OF Laundon, Win
decker & Co., visited Mrs. Mcdonald a
her home and she too confessed to writ.
ing the orders and to make the mattel
clesr 10 his mind took a pen, ink ant
paper and made verbatim copy Of eacl
one OF the orders which had been present
ed here on Saturday and Monday. Tn,
woman Is said TO be quite an expert with
the pen. A proper affidavit was thei
sworn TO by W. F. Crosler Of the firm o
G, W. Crosier & Co., and warrant ISSUED
under the State law before Mayor Coucl
charging Mcdonald and Haytt will
forgery and the trial set for Saturday at ter
O'Clock. Mcdonald was released on bont
of one thousand dollars and Haytt va
placed In the cooler.
The trial was called al the time designa
ted. j. II. Dickson appeared as counse
for State, Mcdonald and Haytt botl
present. The charge was read to then
to which they both plead not guilty
and waived an examination. His
Honor then bound them over to the Com
mon Pleas court, Mcdonald for forgery
and Haytt as witness. McDonaldl
bond was fixed at two thouand dollars anC
was signed by approved sureties and Hayt
at one thousand dollars, which he failed
to give and was taken to jail at Elyrii
Saturday afternoon. About one year age
an order for thirty five dollars was cashet
by Laundon, Wlndecker & Co., and ont
for thirty dollars by G. W. Crosier & 20.
and up to date the scoundrels have no
been detected, but the presumptions ar,
that the forgers hail from that vicinity
An order was presented to another chees,
firm for thirty-fve dollars about thre'
weeks ago and the clerk requested th,
presenter TO 60 out and get some one Il
identify him. He requested that thu
order be returned TO him, but the cleri
declined TO give It up. He then left th'
Office At once and has not yetreturnet
with any enc 10 identity him. The firm
requested our reporter TO give no name
at present as the matter was being looket
after carefully and II the rascal Is caugh
there will bc another probable candidate
for the penitentiary. The members of th'
cheese firms are In earnest over the matte
and every means possible will be takeI
TO break up the gang and bring them Il
justice. The business waslargely represent
ed by people from Homervllle, Sullivan
Huntington, Penheld, Brighton, Rochestei
and Ptisheld, all anxious to be presen
at the preliminary examination, but a
there was no hearing they went away
somewhat lsappoinied In that respect
The different firms here operate factorie
In all Of the places named and the homes
patrons are all anxious to aid In protecting
the interest Of owners Of the factories