The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-16

secutively by numbering ma
chine, and at the close of business
that night the theft was discovered.
During business hours, before 8 o'clock,
one of the checks was passed at the Citi
zens' National Bank, who are bankers
for the warehouse The check was made
out in due form, and signed as is usual,
u. A. Meadows, per Williams" In the
rush just before the closing of the bank
and owing to the fact that the
checks are usually signed by a
clerk instead of by the propri-
etor, the difference in handwriting
was not discovered; though the forgery,
from an experts standpoint, is clumsy.
That night fellow with full mus
tache and ford complexion, looking
very much like farmer, walked into
the store of Mr.. A. B. Stronach
and presented check for $33
The check YVES written on the regular
blanks of the Meadows warehouse
and signed in the regulation way. 1t
was made payable to IS D. Mangum. "
When the supposed farmer took the pen
in hand to endorse the check, he wrote
on the right end Of thu reverse side the
name IS. G.. Morgan" Seeing his mis-
take, in an instant he remedied the error
by writing 3d." over the &c "
At the head of this column is printed
fac -simle of the check csshed at the
Citizens Bank.
Said He Was Going to Durham.
The suspect, who was seen hanging
around the Meadows warehouse Thurs
day, the day the blank checks were
stolen, was heard to say that he was
going to Durham that night.
All the information so far gathered
leads to the supposition that the Dur
ham forger and the Raleigh forger are
one and the same person.
What has been heard from Durham of
the appearance of the man caught there
yesterday leads one to believe that he is
| the same individual who in his innocent
appearing rusticity cashed the forged
check at Stronachs.
As soon as the capture was effected
at Durham and the checks of the
Meadows warehouse found on him, the
cashier cf the First National Bank of
Durham teephoned to Chief Of
Police Heartt giving a detailed account
| of the presentation of the check and
capture of the forger.
The numbers of the Meadows checks
| found in Durham correspond with the
numbers of the stolen blanks and the
checks cashed here.
One of the checks has not yet turned
| up, and it is feared that the forger sue
ceeded in passing that one, also, in Raj
eigh.
The Henderson FOrgerles.
The forgeries at Henderson last week
| were worked very much in the same way
they were here and in Durham. From
| the similarity in method, and the close
resemblance of the name "Mattocks"
| given by the Durham forger) to the
name ''Madkins," (under which the man
now in Vance county Jail goes) comes
the belief that the two criminals must
belong TO the same gang. And the
places in which the forgeries have oc
Cured point to systematic working"
of North Carolina tobacco towns.
The FOrger Caught in Durham.
| Aspecial from Durham tonight says:
There was quite a stir here this af-
ternoon for while, caused by white
man, who is a stranger in these parts,
attempting to forge a check on the
| First National Bank. The check was
one which was stolen from the firm of
Lea, Burch, Hutchings & Co, this
morning, and but for the timely dis
] covery that the check was gone the