Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-07-13
A CLEVER SWlNuLER CAUGHT.
He Was Successfully Engaged In
Working Off Forged Checks.

Checks in Payment Anu Ncoois0" 80 -
Difference in Cash--Drove Double ,
Team and Was Going at Fine race
Until Policeman Tripped Him.
The police. last Wednesday soooped in
| clever Young forger who has been success 4
| fully operating in this city for the past
| two weeks, and who until Wednesday was {
allowed to carry on his crooked work un- ]
moested. The forger's nameis Wm.Tallion,
| whose career in crime began when he was
scarcely out of knee brooches and whlch '
has continued up TO the present time.
| GALLON was arrested about o CLOCK ID tne
evening, by House Sergeant Durney al
Fifth and Washington streets:
For the past few weeks Gallon has peen
forging the names of different business
men to checks on the various banks IN the
| CITY, and taking the checks to stores ana
business places, where he purchased goous,
presented the checks, received the palahge
In money and skipped. giving bogus 40.
dress where the merchant was TO denver
| the goods at his earliest convenience
Among those who have suffered by Gal
/ lions rascality are the Charles warner
: Co., John NJ solomon and another eoat
} dealer; J. 7. Walker, shoe dealer, ON East
/ Third street; Lynch y Leary, gToeersi
4 Joseph II. Gooding coal and lime dealer
/; o, W. ladd, gentleman's furnishing goods,
No. A0S Market street, 1t IS said there are
0 numerous other cases to hear from
q Gallons scheme was to hire uouDle
0 team from Robert b. Armstrong, livery |
d man at No. 4l9 French street, drive up TO |
It business establishment and order goods
o sent to bogus address, which he gave on
Tatnall street, obtain the difference De-
d tween the bill of goods and the amount Oh
N the check, and drive away again as soon
G, as possible. In this manner he drove 10
Ie the uptown office of the Charles Warner
is Company. where he ordered ton OIL COAL
10 and presented a check made by Harry a.
Brown" on the Union National Bank tor
at S963 and made payable to walter Il.
III Smith;' another check was drawn by
''Sanuel S. Clark on the First National
= Bank to the order of Charles IL. Cotton,
TX far sl0o7, which the swindler rendered IN
ps payment for a load OF sand and recelNeu
the balance in cash. M
ce Gallon went to the shoe store OF J. I:
ed Walker, Monday week, bought pair OF
lis shoes and gave check drawn py ~; d.
JONES'" for So to the order OF waiter
in Rumford" in payment for the shoes; az
the store of o. w, Laid, Gallon bought
it. 81 worth OF goods and gave bogus check
III. drawn by George II. Huber to the order
is of Frank Smith," and received balance
VS., of 1857 in cash. He said that he was en-
in ployed by Mr.. Jones, who conducts the
are Ice cream saloon at No. Sal Market street,
AN and upon the strength of this statement
md the clerk cashed the check Gallon also
NV ordered sand from John NJ. solomon and
the Joseph IL, Gooding, and rendered the
lie, bogus checks in payments.
, to He also went TO the grocery store @.
Jay John C. Buckingham, No. l2Ol trencn
ach street, about ten days ago, purchased some
yed groceries and rendered check IN payment
in The grocer was slick, however, and betort
up, he handed over the cash ne quetly Saliet
IRIS. up Central National Bank to know u ~
Din check was good. When he returned to tn
store the swindler had skipped.
Gallon hired a double team from
-. Liyeryman Armstrong, Sunday week 70 3
wild ~ money and maid SO for the team. Tn
! do following day he hired single team, an
was ON the Fourth of July he hired the doupl
ne team again. Wednesday he had the douhi
my team in the morning and in the aiternoo
tne he again hired two horses and carriage
tell His livery bill at Armstrong; amounts
nk about S2i, but this item he aiway
oIy promptly paid. - r,s,
en- Gallon struck ''snag' on West FIT
me street Wednesday. while heretofore he ha
did been operating successfully. Some tin
meet Wednesday afternoon the young rascal
ana crooked work was reported to Cher
atter Police Dolan, who sent out instructions
9 IN every officer to arrest the young man
was sight and bring him in. An accurate q
ough scription was furnished of the torger.
Two House Sergeant Durney was passing o
hau West Fifth street, just beyond Washlngt'
ID ne at 6 O'clock in the evening, when he sa"
.IVg' carriage drawn by two horses standing
lkies, the street. A negro was standing near I
sot 10 pavement talking to the driver OF I
away side of the wagon, and as soon as he s.
I'D 10 the house sergeant he coolly spoke to hi
!, ex- calling the Sfficer by name. Sergea
arlie, Dnrnsv nlaced Gallon under arrest. I
blue chS IN wasou and said he would drive
gooq to the CITY hall He was unwilling u
ny, 4 the officer should elk when his team
! anu spanking bays wer5SS hand.
lainet When the officer got in the WIS
silent GALLON wanted to drive first to the liv
v any | Nth thu blt the DtflCer wO
moved not have it that way and took the prise
70 any to the police station. Before Gallon
ie anu placed in cell search of his cloth
s move was made, revealing several other Tor
ilortu checks, which the culprit probably
nm, tended to pass on other business men.
I've GALLON was arrested in the fall of l
u Time on complaint of @. l.. Meiler. butche
you 10 No. 507 King street, who charged him y
% you, stealing $500. The young thief served
Y, who 49, .hat Gaiiion xvns once arrested
h heie feIonius assault, but owing to lacl
guy tne evidence the charge was dismissed. He
o nun afterwards accused Of stealing a small
Gonn Of money from his boarding mistress,
~ thae some time ago was accused OF crooke
'topneI nv several commission men doing bust
" neHt OH King street above Eighth. He is col
mere Is cred one of the slickest criminals
mere police have had to deal with in years.
1a;,.p Is "a years old, with smooth lace ano
o., ! low complexion. He is of small statu
'ther He usually entered places of bus
without coat, pretending that his bus
was of such a nature that he had
moment to lose. George II. Huber, "
y tna. name has been forged by GALLON,
ha ai.er baker at Second and Parish streets, '
u ny ny Samuel s. Clark is a bricklayer at NC
: Ca nfs snG East Fourth street. -
o eli Gallon was arraigned in mum
pelIefS court Thursday and held in $1,000
,yhnm' 7 for the upper court.
mnou Two more victims were discovert
lne1 aho Thursday in the agent of the b. d. o.
a,o NJ ~ road Company and William Condor
49, T.; | keeps shoe store on Market stree
; ssaio -, low Second. Gallon was identihe
!, ~ ths both the victims as the man who ,
III Il an the checks.
~ t5en, The forged checks seem to be pour
u r ", IN, from all parts of the city. The ma
rnpa on ny of persons holding them deposited th
,ns;dsra. bank, where they were declared ranl
aaS ~ geries. Gallon seems to have
% any a;,;ne chances of arrest and calmly awaite
" e'''AS forged checks to eventually lead TO
vrso with prehension. He made no effort to
iestion as the city.
,es,,o ,.b 90 Gallon was rearraigned in muir
!. ~ Er;o mf2 court Friday morning, charged on
BAB. counts IN an I,in,iron n,era orraS
the right of the judges bench fact
SOLD sallow-complexione youth. In the I
ars, dock who listened TO the reac