Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-08-15
SIMILARITY OF NAMES
Makes 1t Possible for Charles Prsic to
Draw the Pension OF Charles Price.
Uncle Sam After Him Now.


Draw the Pension OF Charles Price.
Uncle Sam After Him Now.
Special Tsss0ram 10 ths REGISTER.
PARKERsBURG, w. VA, August IL
Deputy q. 5. Marshal j. b. Mehen ar
rested Charles Price, a citizen OF
Moundsville, yesterday at that place
and brought him to this city and lodged
him in jail last night. Price is charged
with forging the endorsement of Chas.
Price, q convict In the Moundsville
penitentiary and pensioner, to 4 check
for Prices pension. This check was
cashed at the German Bank at Wheel
ing. He is also charged with forging or
ders intended for the same convict PEN
sioner. and with drawing the pensions
checks and papers through the post
office al Moundsviile since December
last. Capt. ROome, special pension agent
for the government, bas been working
up the case for some time, and he
learned that last December check for
the prior quarter sent Chss. Price, had
been gotten out Of the Moundsville
postofllce by Chas. Price, German,
who goes by the name OF
Prees. He traced this up and found
that Prees forged the endorsement on
the check and the vouchers also after
that date and had been drawing the
convicts pension ever eince. The
vouchers were signed and acknowledged
before w. G. Mann. Justice OF the
peace Of Marshall county, former
ly an attorney-at-law OF this city,
where he is well known.
Mann accompanied the prisoner 10
this city as a government witness.
Price, the prisoner, has been 10 trouble
many times before, and has e notorious
reputation. He has been arrested by
the government for Illicit selling and
for moonshlning, and by the Circuit
Court for shooting two men, one OF
whom, it is said, was disigured for life
In the preliminary examination this
afternoon it was proven that Preic, the
prisoner, had gotten letter addressed
to Charles Price, the pensoner, aud
took therefrom check which he
cashed and the German Bank
at Wheeling at that 81 CO that time,
Decemer last, the prisoner had forged
vouchers and drawn the pensioners
money with the greatest regular
ity and aIacrity. j. II. Burley, notary
public at Moundsvlhe, testified TO
the original vouchers, sworn TO before
him by the true pensioher Charles
Price, who is now in the penitentiary
and to his signature to the original and
true papers. w. @. Mann, Justice OF
the Peace at Moundsville, was also a
witness. He confessed having acknowl-
edged the vouchers and papers signed
by the prisoner, bat when asked
how he came to acknowledge them as q
notary and how it happened that he
put his signatures to a paper which
states that THE Notary" saw the PEN
sion certificate OF Charles Price and
knew him TO be a pensioner and an old
soldier, he became embarrassed. He
said that he always understood that
Price was an old soldier and a. pen.
sloner, and that In brief he took II for
granted that when Price told him that
his certificate was st home, he told the
truth. Directly after giving his testi-
mony. Mr.. Mann was also arrested on a
charge OF completely. Mr.. Mann, prior
to going to Moundsville, about a couple
OF years ago was a pracueing attorney
in this city. He stood well 10 this COM
munity as q man who was trying TO work
his way up in the world, and his arrest
on such serious charge will be great
surprise to his macy friends, and ac-
quaintance here, and at Moundsylle.