The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-05-09
A FORGER
And Another FOrger Gives Himself
up.

And Another Forger Gives Himself
/ Up.
Tuesday evening ID. W. Wilson and
James Kirkland arrived in the city
from Arkadelphia, Arkansas, having
in charge c. e. Yates, known here as
Charley Post. Yates was once in the
employ of d. W. Wilson as a piano
and organ salesman and while thu
employed disposed of several hundred
dollars worth of musical instruments
and skipped with the money.
Yates came to this city from Rush.
vile. Illinois. AT Rushville he forged
some notes and when the authorities
got after him he skipped the country.
He changed his name and has went
by the name of Post ever since. He
worked for Dennis Wilson under the
name of Post and everybody supposed
that was his real name. lie was in.
dicted by the Grand jury of Schuyler
county, Illinois, where he is now
wanted and where he will be taken
and turned over to the proper author
tiles. To the representative of the
DEMOCRAT Yates said that he was not
afraid to return to his home and staLd
trial. He claims he has lots of friends
at Nashville who will see him through
and he does not think that his punish
ment will be severe. He admits that
he is guilty of forgery and says that
for two years he has not had a good
nights rest. He is now anxious, so
he says, to get back home and receive
whatever punishment the people see
fit to give him for the crime he COM
mitted.
G. W. Ballard. was the other man
in charge of the captors of Yates.
Ballard was in Arkadelphia when
Wilson and Kirkland arrived there
after Yates, and he told the Demo-
| Graf scribe that he went to them and
insisted Oh being brought back to
this county as a prisoner. lie says he
wanted TO come back here several
weeks ago and answer TO the charges
! against him but he did not have the
money to pay his fare here.
Ballard was the business manager
of the late dcfunct Anchor Music
Company and he is charged with
palming off il forged note Oh the Jack
son Bank. He admits that he did get
some money on some notes from the
Jackson Bank but he says the notes
were not forged. He says the An
! Choir Music Company was pushed for
money and As manager ofthe concern
he knew of no other way TO raise
! some cash than that of working the
Jackson Bank. lie therefore made
some notes and signed fictitious names
to thcm-names he had never heard
These notes he presented to the Jack
son Bank. He says the Bank required
him TO give the Anchor Music Com
pany's note as additional security on
the fictitious notes before giving him
the money on them. This he claims
he did. Ballard says he knows he did
wrong but he says the Anchor Music
Company was bursted and being be-
hind with the organ and piano houses
with which the company had been
dealing, he and young Spann were
frightened and having NJ money with
which to get out OF town he tried the
fictitious notes as a last resent to raise
money to get away on. He says he
intended to pay the Jackson Bank the
amount of the note he gave as security
for the fictitious notes, and claims
that he will yet pay every cent OF the
money with interest.
The two men were taken to Jack
son and placed in Jail. The authori-
ties at Nashville will be notified and
they will come after Yates. He is anx.
ious to get back to his old home and
will not require a requisition.
Few Painters.