The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-04-16
A BRACE OF FORGERS.
Dangerous Penmen Captured
by the Detectives
THEIR VICTIMS NUMEROUS.
Cheeks were fog Small Anssnts-Ut-
tered - Bernard Mulrsins aaA
. Man From Everett.

For the past three weeks the city has
been flooded with bogus and forged checks,
ranging in amounts from $40 to $45. The
case has been run down by Detectives
Cudihee and Phiibrick, each of whom has
jailed his man, and, curious ~ it may
seem, there 10 no evidence to show that
the cases have any connection. George
Wysing. German civil engineer, and
Bernard Nulreine, . Seattle newspaper
man. are the ones charged with doing the
work The latter il now in the county
jail, serving out . sentence OF petit
larceny In connection with . $40
check he passed on James Weir,
proprietor Of the New England
hotel. He was sent up day before yester-
day, but since then Detective Philbrick
has been collecting evidence that shows
Muireine to be not only shrewd but also
. dangerous man, in view of the strictly
technical construction of the Law now OBJ
served in the courts. Mulreine has been
going about the city with q scheme for I'D.
vertising Seattle ct the Worlds fair.
BY some fattering representations he
obtained money from Prof. ]. NJ. Taylor,
of the state university, for space in his
pamphlet. and also from Prof. Ii. Hill. 1t
then appears he went to James Weir and
got money on a check made payable to
Bernard Mulreine by ]. N. Taylor. His
representations were to the hotel man that
Prof. Taylor owed him money and that he
got the check from him. He did not get
check from the professor, and when the
check in question was closely examined it
was found that the professors name was
T.. ~ oxx}rS
fictitious name. The best example OF Null
reine's work came to light yesterday
through +. L. Fsurt. who keeps grocery
at the corner of Third and Union streets.
He says that Muireinc came into the store
about the first Of the month and repre-
scented himself a. a newspaper man, who
was working up an advertising scheme for
Seattle at the Worlds fair. A pamphlet
about eight by six inches was to be gotten
up with pictures and biographies of promi-
nent men, and the border of certain pages
was to be let out a. advertising space. He
showed diagram and Feurt finally took
. space, paying him 81 A short iime
after this Muireine came into the
store and. calling up messenger. sent to
Prof. Bailey's house for some money. He
explained that Prof. Bailey, of the uni
versity, owed him money in connection
with the Worlds fair pamphlet. and Incl
dentai.y purchased $L65 worth of
groceries. Then he produced . check on
the Washington National bank for $40,
payable to himself and signed by Charles
II. Hill. Mr.. Feurt mentioned the fact
that he thought he had been speaking of
Prof Bailey, but Mulreine replied off
handed that Prof Charles Hill also owed
him. The name of the professor as con-
nected with the university could not be
found in the directory. and Mulreipe ex-
planned that that was duo to his being .
late arrival in the city.
The check was taken in payment, and
on receiving 1886 in change Mulreine
went out. In the due course OF time the
check came back to Mr.. Feurt marked,
mo such account" From that time on
until last Tuesday the grocer was looking
for the man who passed bogus checks. He
found him at the corner OF Second and
Cherry, and q serious conversation ensued.
Mulreine. so Mr.. Feurt says, admitted
that he knew the check was q forgery and
that he passed it. Yet he would not have
done it. only he thought he could take it up
before it went through the bank and save
himself He did not write the check
himself. but fully realized tho position he
was in regarding forgery and would
straighten the matter immediately. Mr..
Feurt gave him till the next day. but no
matter what his intentions were Detective
rhilbrick settled matters by arresting him
ON the check he passed on the New Eng
land hotel proprietor. The matter was
considered by Prosecuting Attorney Miller
yesterday, and complaint was flied in
Justice Caldwell's court. charging Nut
refine with utterIng as true a check known
to be forgery.
The other victims of Muireine's check
methods. so far rs known. are John
svendsgaard. a druggist at 1906 Front
street. who cashed check for $40 Febru-
airy 70. drawn on the FRS, National bank
and signed by J. n. Taylor, and Charles
Iouch, the Front street grocer, who
cashed check for the regulation amount
April 8. drawn by Charles III. Hill on the
Guarantee Loan and Trust Company. In
every case cited the checks were returned
as ''no such account" This leads 10 the
discovery of the fact that ia no case was
the signature of the person represented in
words truly represented on paper. Prof.
J NJ. Taylor was written j. \. Taylor. with
tti1t Vi hslc fcN " uiaht Inc look q
little like an M" Prof Charles Hill WAS
signed ''Chas. II. HIM." whereas in the
name proper there is no III" The man
who has passed the checks claims ,ha, he
10 not responsible. as some unknown per-
son wrote them. Who the unknown per-
son is has not been explained. Mulreine
is the man who was wounded at the time
of the Chinese riots.
Close upon the capture Of Mulreine. and
equally important, comes that of George
Wysing. Who, if appearances are not en-
;ireiv wrong, is q very clever man with
the rem. IN truth too clever to be allowed
the use 10 which he is alleged to put il
Detective Cudihee has been looking for
Wysing since March -. when he received
letter from Deputy Sheriff Pat Shea. of
Everett, containing the information that
. man named Wysing. about SO wears old
well educated. civil engineer. tive feet
seven inches tall. wearing gray
mussaehe. was wanted there fer fore-
Ing the name of L. Ryan, SUPER
fntendent of the Great Northern
and Paymsst-r DAVIS, OF the same
corporation. 1t vas not more than three
dars hxfore the local notice vera notified