The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-10-02
A NOTORIOUS FORGER.
AND ALL ROUND THIEF,
HUGH L. LOGAN,
Safely Put Behind the Bars
His Several Forgeries Upon
the Bank of Columbia.

Nashville last w eunesuay AFTERNOON
by Chief of Detectives Pittmau aud
Detective Sam Turner of Nashville,
and w. I. OvertOn of COlnmb n.
Lugan's crimes are as manifold as
mis- uAlnes. He seems to he wanted
everyw here on all kinds of charges,
and his history as q clever scOundrel
will rival that of any desperate crook
who has ever da2Zled and swiudied
the public by his bOlduesS and
shrewduess. Two years ago ne WAS
arrested at Knoxville for hOrseateai-
ny and while being tried in the
curt huuse there, Ieaped from the
window To the ground below, jump II
IN "A horse tethered To a rack near by
md escaped. A reward was Offered
for him by the Chief OF Police at
Knoxville, but he was never nppre-
hended.
Some time later he turned up in
Maury County, riding into Columbia
on the sorrel mare he had stolen at
Knoxville A few days afIer max
ing himself well acquainted i'll Co
lumbia he disappeared and WAS al
most forgotten until he suddenly
came to light again in Columbia last
May and put up at the Guest House.
He stayed in COlumUIa nearly
month and seemed to have plenty Of
money, exhibiting at one time no less
than s., 500.
The next time Logan came into no.
lice was at Gallatin, June %, where
he presented a draft for 5 900 ON the
Bank OF Columbia, signed Howard "
Moore by w. II. Boyd, to the Farmers
Traders Bank. The draft was ELL
,irely unsusp iciOus and WAS unhesI-
tatingly cashed by the bank.
IL, f,ff
drew $500, leaving $40O Win the bank
10 his credit. The forgery WAS not
discovered until the draft reached tue
Bank OF Columbia. Tie GallaIIn
Bank, Howard & Moore and w. 4.
Boyd all offered small rewards Tor the
arrest of tile guilty man. After the
Gallatin episode l. gan Returned
acre ana boarded ut the Guest House
mill Sept. 2lst. He was a plaus-
to,e, aoc,abte, pleasant fellow, ana
maze great IIIunS acGua!ntahces
.ud some friends WniIe here.
He left mere aud uu SEPT. -, Logan
turned up at Cleveland, Tenn., here
&c presented u draft IUI 9j,0UU Oh Tie
Bank OF Columbia, signed Howard ~
Ioo.e ny ". L. Boyu, W The Bunk
u Cleveland, 10 when VAS attached
L letter OF credit purpOrtIng 10 he
written by w. L. Ingram, lresIdent
of the Bank of Columbia, and certify
ing that Logan had rs much as 3d.
IUU on depu-iL at mis- banK. He also
exhibited there, a. at other places.
What purpurIed 10 be u certificate
letter from the County Court Clrrr
II this county. Tins was mos.
Oungtcaume piece Of work, however,
IN Luat il bore tine name Of w ii VII
4un, Clerk, who has been out OF
office over - year, and besiGes the
county seal he had had made to order
vas uOticeabIy unlike the one used
by County Court Clerk Wiley. FoI
Instance, i'm the centre of the seal
Used by Clerk Wiley is an eagle,
.vhole in the centre OF the one uset.
" Logan il, in big letters, the word
cal. These facts however were u.
,uurse not plain to strangers and the
forged certificate letter went on t.
say, and have the supposed Clerk
testify to the fact, that he LOgan)
was W. II. Boyd aud had $500 to his
credit in the Bank of Columbia.
The caphier of the Cleveland bank
refused to pay Logan Cor Boyd as he
represented himself there) the money
until he could establish his identity
Logan said to the cashier that lie
could send the draft on to Columbia
for collection while he would go out
and hunt up parties to identify him.
He then left but did not show up
again at the Cleveland bank.
Two days later he presented him
self at the Sweetwater Bank, at
Sweetwater, Monroe County, where
lie tried the same game and met with
like failure. AT Sweetwater he
went to livery stable in town and
II p
pleasure drive, but drove on to Madi-
.on, and the .liveryman has heard
nothing of his team since. He went
from there to Decatur, Ala, and
from there to Nashville. Detective
OvertOn had been trailing Logan step
Dy step since he passed the forged
draft at Gallatin, and Wednesday
morning he went to Nashville to ar
rest bIm. He called in to assist him
Detectives Pittman and Turner, of
Nashville They located him at
ublic house on Front Street and
forthwith handcutfed him. Since his
capture he has positively refused to
ak to any one. He would answer
none of rhe questions of his captoTs,
tud refused to be interviewed by the
Nashville reporters.
A fter the arrest the officers went to
the Broadway House in Nashville,
where he was stopping, and seized
the baggage he had left there. In
his valise was found letter heads OF
the Bank of Columbia, and the Co
lumbia Banking Company and the
old bank accounts of w. Il. Boyd.
used by him since 1880. These were
stolen from Boyd's room at the Guest
House i'm Columbia. The check
books of Mrs. l.. G.. Pope, of Decatur.
4 l., Ii oil
a seal of Maury County. In his
pockets were found letters of credit
given by the Bank of Columbia to
W. T. Boyd, and forged letters of GER
tificate with w. p. Ingram's name
signed thereto.
Logan wac brought here Thursday
morning, and bound over by Judge
Erwin to the Criminal Court. When
he he'd been remanded to jail He
RAID reporter attempted to interview
him. He said he had no statement
whatever to make at this time, but
that he did have something to say
when the proper time came; for the
present, he sai6, he would rather his
name was kept out of the newspapers.
Logan is said to have originally
come from Richmond, KY, and is
married. Since his arrest he l. known
TO be wanted at a number of places,
and proves to be q notorious crook.
Chief LipscOmb, of this city, had
description of him on file, but it was
sent him year or more ago and had
been forgotten. When he was taken
before Chief Clack at Nashville, the
Chief looked at him and remarked,
"why I wanted that man myself"
and going to his desk produced pic
ture and description of him. He Ii
about IS years of age, 5 feet 9 inches
in height, weighs los pounds, is of
fair complexion, with dark brown
eyebrows, blue eyes, and has brown
moustache.
LATER:-Since the above was put
in type, Mr.. Pierce, Cashier of the
Gallatiu Bank, reached here and
identified Logan a. the man who
passed the forged daft on his bank,
and the prisoner was taken on the az
ternoon train to Gallatin, where he
will be prosecuted for his crime. UpI
10 the time of his leaving he main
tanned his stolid. silence, but the
downcast, disturbed, sad expression
of his face showed that he was by no
p,aanS iDdiffarapt to his fate.