Evening journal., 1893-03-30
WHOLESALE FORGERY.
Whiskey Distiller Sutton's
Confidential Clerk Confesses.
SYSTEMATIC FRAUD EXPLAINED.

sutton Obtained Blank Receipts Years
Ago From Various Large DistiIierIes and
Forged Them Slowly and systematically.
stealings in This Way Amount to Nearly
sS5.OOO-The Clerk Forced to Con-
fess.
LOUISVILLE, March Collaboration
was secured at late hour last night
which seems to explain the mystery of
the Sutton forged warehouse receipts.
Rendered desperate and i'll from
the strain on his mind, William NJ.
Beecher confidential bookkeeper
for A. r. Sutton & Co, last
night stated that his employer was guilty
of the acts alleged against him and said
further that A. r. Sutton had confessed
the same to him.
He Bought Up Whiskey.
The blank receipts on which the for
geries were committed, were secured. he
said, over year ago. and were secreted
in the Office at No. 105 West Main street
for some time before being used The
actual amount Of ferged receipts &C
cording to Beecher is from $4,000 to
$50, 600. With the money thus raised in
addition to the marginal loans, Sutton
was enabled to buy up large quantities
of whiskey.
At a late hour a Courier Journal re-
porter called at Beechers home, No 737
East Walnut street He had retired,
but came TO the door and at first declined
positively to be interviewe Several
pointed questions were asked and he
fually said: Il engaged lawyers to day
and any information should come from
them, but | am becoming desperate at
the suspicious directed against me and
will stand il no longer Sutton has done
wrong He is guilty and has confessed
it TO me, knowing that had become sus
| picious Of his transactions | told Bar
rett of the German Security Bank to day
about the forged rec ceipts.
when did you first see them, as long
as year ago asked the reporter.
What tile Blank Receipts Meant.
81 don't remember exactly but it was
somewhere near that time saw that
he brought large quantity of blank re-
ceipts to the Office aud asked him what il
meant He said that he had ordered
them for the distilleries on which they
were afterward forged. They remained
ia the office some time before the blank
places were filed out After he had q,
himself into the affair he became des
perate aud threatened to commit suicide
Must Get the Money Tomorrow.
cone thing is certain, he shall DAILY
no longer and tomorrow be must gel
the money to pay out and besides Civ,
me full confession in black and white
sutton promised to raise the money to
morrow. He expects to get some here
and some from a distance. He told the
president Of one Of the banks involved
that Mrs Bertha Roulston, Of No. I'll
West jefferson street whom he says /:
his niece Is to raise a large sum for him
Thu banker told me the sum that sh'
promised to raise for Sutton and it wal
so large that / opened my mouth will
astonishment. l decline to give th'
hgures.
VIII Fight II TO the End.
Sutton has about 10, 900 barrels o
whiskey, but Of course he owes grea
deal on it, 1t is my firm belief that h
will be able to pull through all right
No one need fear that be will leave tn
city. He told me that he had fully mad
up his mind to fight it ont to the end a
, all hazards There is not much DANCE
of prosecution"