Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-01-14
Held TO COURT.
WILLIAM LONG, Tue BOGUS CaECK ART
IST,
Given a Hearing, Yesterday, at the Jail, and Held
in Default of S5OO-Hs Was Interested in
q Green Goods Deal.

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gotiate a bogus check for $500 at the
Elig carriage factory, was arraigned be-
fore Justice Ankle at the Jail, yesterday
afternoon. for preliminary examiDa-
ton. The result was that the prisoner
was remanded in default OF $500 for the
grand jury at the April term OF Court.
During the examination Long sub
mitted TO Justice Arkls the following
statement. which had been written out
for him by prisoner in the jail, as
Long appears to be but an Indifferent
scribe himself:
son the 295h of December / formed
the acquaintance Of man, by name
Samuel Ashman, in saloon in Cleve-
land, o., where we had several drinks
and supper. BY about D. m. we went
TO house Of prostitution ard stayed
there until about IL o'clock. We went
out, and AShman showed me private
house where | had g bed that night.
On the following morning about 9
o'clock Ashman called on me, and we
went and got breakfast together. Here
at this place arrived another man whom
he introduced TO me as his friend Alfred,
and who took breakfast with US. After
breakfast we went to this mans room
and smoked awhile, and they proposed
a game at cards. told them l did
not know how TO play. The
friend of Ashman, Alfred, sent out for
quart of whisky. We had several
drinks, and in the course Of time Ash
man asked me If / would like to make
pile of money. 1 told him would. He
said he could let me have greenbacks
equal 10 good ones at 500 for SO, and
l agreed TO take them If they were good
and we closed this bargain az this rate.
Then Ashman's friend Alfred told me
in confidential way they had been in
the broker business but had
made a bad speculation, and
their creditors were going to
close them up, but they had retained q
certificate Of deposit and a check. The
whole amount was little over $1,000,
which they would let me have at the
same rate, and he showed me them on
sight, and said he would make them
over to me in my name. 1 took them
and paid 500 on account, and be wrote
my name on them and gave me two
blank checks with them. The green
backs were to be paid the next day,
and in order TO be satisfied that the
money was good he let me have five
dollar bill and l went to q drug store
and bought fifty cents worth of
cigars with it. The money seemed
to be ali right, and 1 concluded that
everything else was. The following
day we met at depot by appoint
ment. Alierd and a woman by the
name of Minnie bought ticket to Gin
cinnati, and Ashman aud l went to
Columbus. 0.
CIVILIAN LONG.
January Is, 1893"
In previous brief statement written
by Long, on the 10th instant, he said he
paid Ashman $3.50, and when asked
about this yesterday he said that was
correct, and that he agreed to take
$1,000 in bogus greenbacks, paid $50
on account and was to have paid the
remaining $50 out OF his share
of the money obtained from
the worthless check which be ten
dered to EIig in payment
for S125 buggy. In reply to further
questions Long said Ashman was here
in Wheeling the day Long was arrested
they having come down from Steuben-
vile, where Long said he left o valise
at the United States Hotel. He said
Ashman never stopped at the same
place he did, but insisted on taking
quarters 10 a separate portion of what
ever town they were in. On the ocCas-
ion of the visit to Wheeling he said
Ashman stopped either in Bridgeport
or Martins Ferry, while Long was
stopping on this side. The two met in
various saloons about town. Long de-
scribed Ashman as mah about feet, S
inches in height, auburn hair, small
dark mustache, light oYercoat, black
under coat, and light trousers.
The general impression among those
Who heard Longs story is that AShman
and Alierd were the real "slick peo-
ple," and that they fell in with Long,
found he had some money, got all he
had on the green goods racket, and
then Awlferd and the girl went on to
Cincinnati, leaving Ashman to bring
Long to Wheeling in the hope of using
him to float one or more worthless
checks and to drop him, as was done,
in case he was clumsy enough to get
caught. Long seems to be very desir-
Gus Of making all the trouble he can for
AShman, but seems unable to give any
more information respecting him than
is narrated above.