The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-04-30
A PAIR OF HIGH ROLLERS
MISS MAURICE QUITS ATLANTA,
BUT DUNN Still IN JAIL.

She Indignantly Denies any Impro-
prieties-A Detective Who Searched
her Trunk Makes an Ugly Report.
Dunn Accused of Trying to baise
Money on Bogus Drafts and Bills of
i ad'ng.
ATLANTA, Ga, April 29-Miss Helen
Maurice has departed from Atlanta for the
moro congenial metropolis in high dudgeon
at the treatment to which she has been
subjected in Georgia. Miss Helen Maurice
is the variety actress brought to this city by
the alleged forger, J. l.. Dunn. as whose
wife she was registered at the KimbalI
house. and with whom she consorted for at
least week before Dunn was arrested She
felt indignant at the reports contained in
the morning papers, which were considered
by her highly derogatory TO her charact or.
She left by the evening train and will prob
ably not return.
DUNN IN A BAD BOX.
Meantime, the evidence against her ooIu-
panion, Dunn, threatens to fasten that gem
tleman In hopeless net of circnmstantiai
evidence. The drafts and waybills be is
accused OF forging on Memphis houses were
all drawn in the name Of j. Stewart Crock
ett1 IL turns out taat such "A man oncc
existed at Jonesboro and was a cotton buyer
there, but died about two years ago. The
theory OF the police is that Dunn, j. Stewart
Crockett aud j. w. Watson, which names
have figured conspicuously IN the waybill
business, are one and the same man. None
OF the parties can be located, with the ex-
cepttou Of Dunn and tho dead Jonesboro
cotton buyer.
DUNN IDENTIFIED AS CROCKETT.
Dunn, since his arrest here, placedI e. o
blame for the whole Of the fraudulent
transaction on the shoulders Of Crockett
and Watson. This morning il was dscoV-
cred that Stewart Crockett had drawn a
draft on Eugene Dorseotte & Son Of st.
Louis for $3.50 and turned il over to the Capi-
tai City Bank for collection. Dunn
was Ht once marched TO the bank by his can
tors aud there identified positively
by the cashier as the Crockett who drew
this draft. This appears to identify him
beyond doubt with the principal in the
waybill business, and 1t Is assumed that
the Others of the drdmdtis perSonog who
hgure in his story, arc as fictitious as
Crockett is shown TO be. The police are in
receipt Of a number of interesting letters
and kilograms, clearly showing that thore
has been an ohort to work big fraud.
TRIED TO FLEECE MEMPHIS FIRM.
The chief of police at Memphis writes the
department here that "a party whose letter
heads show that he Is located in your city
as cotton buyer. and signing his name as
j Stewart Crockett, has sent Brooks NeelY
6S Go. bill of lading for 1lS bales of cotton.
dated West Point, Miss, and signed J. d.
Evans. Evans is the railroad agent az that
place. but telSgraphs Brooks, Neely 81 Co.
that there was no cotton shipped, and to all
appearances the bill of lading is a forgery.
j.. Stewart Crockett also drew draft on
e. - 1.
lading for $4,000 in favor of q. Guy Corbett
a. Co, Of tue date Of April %, and they in-
dorsed it to tho Southern Express Company
at your place for collection. The firm name
was indorsed on the back of tho draft by
j. w. Watson, attorney. Brooks, Nicely g.
Co. paid the draft but afterward got the
money back from the Southern
also sent bill of lading for
40 bales from West Point, Miss, and Toof,
McGowan e. Co., l0l bales from Columbus,
Miss, and drew drafts on all these parties.
do not know who the criminal is, but this
Is no doubt rank forgery and swindle.
What should like for you to do is to in
vestigate the matter and write or wire the
result. All tk~sae bills of ladng ara dated
March 22, but tho date was evidently in
tended for April g."
NOTIFYING THE RAILROAD.
This letter concludes with the request
that the general agent Of the Georgia
Pacific railroad be notified that the name
of the West Point agent has been aft xed to
the false bills of lading. The superin-
tendent Of this division for the Southern
Express Company has also been notified
of the fraud from Memphis. The letter
Ia in substance the same as that
already quoted. Fin uly j. w. Wad-
dell agent at Columbus, Miss, telegraphy
that he did not sign the bill OF lad ng bear
ing his name, and dispatches from Austin,
Tex, state that Dunn, who pretends to own
the better part of the town, ia only slightly
known there. The police have taken it into
their heads that the prisoner held here Ia
one Of the gang OF crooks arrested yester-
day in New York on account of similar
operations, and will telegraph Inspector
Byrnes to settle the point.
THE GIDDY MISS MAURICE.
Miss Maurice, before her departure to-
day, declared her entire Indifference to the,
fate Of her companion, though he had
those nymphs, who, in black tights, by
the accordion-pleated skirt In the placs
where the blow will prove most effective,
and is now fastening back to the
scene OF her many triumphs in the terpsi-%
chorean art. Miss Maurice is a very spir.
tied young lady, and defying the evidencs
of the hotel register where She
appears as the wife of Mr.. Dunn
OF Texas, she insisted almost fercely
on the strict propriety Of her con-
duct A detective searched her trunk. He