The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-16
ACCUSED OF A FELONY,
J. G. Davis of Rochester Booked
With Passing a Fictitious
Check.
The Police VIII Prosecute Him on
All the Charges, About
Dozen.

a warrant was sworn out in Judge
Joachimsen's court yesterday morning
charging J. c. Davis of Rochester with
passing fictitious check, which under
section 40S of the Penal Code is felony,
This action was taken by the police on the
advice of Judge Murphy of the Superior
Court. 1t is now probable that the charge
of obtaining money by false pretenses
made in Judge Campbells court will be
Withdrawn.
Davis was booked at the City Prison
on the felony charge yesterday. Other
complaints of a similar nature will be
sworn out on Monday, as Captain Lees
says all the charges against Davis, and
there are about a dozen, will be prose
cuted.
Meantime his young wife, who was re-
leased on Friday on her own recognizance,
is doing everything possible to save him
from punishment. She is not without
friends in this City and they are helping
her pecuniarily and otherwise. Her father,
who Is man OF means in Rochester, N
Y, has sent her money and urged her to
return home, but she refuses to leave the
City and says she will remain Loyalty by
her usband in his time of tribulation.
law can reach Mrs. Davis and he is backed
up in his opinion by the lawyers, who hold
that the law does not contemplate double
accusation against man and wife, even
when the offense is committed jointly, as
1t is presumed the wife was acting under
the influence of her husband.
II she had been alone it might have been
different, but Davis was with her when she
purchased the invalid chair from the
Sterling Furniture Company, and it was to
him the change between the value of the
draft and the price of the chair was
handed.
Davis life in the City Prison is being
made as pleasant as possible. His meals
are supplied from neighboring restau-
rant and in other ways, through the atten-
ton OF his wife, he is quite comfortable.
Captain Lees said last night that since
Davis arrest he has been satisfied that he
was not telling the truth when he pro-
fessed that this was the first time that he
had strayed from the path OF rectitude.
II recognized him at once" said the
captain, "as well-known crook, but did
not want to say anything about it till 1
had searched through my papers in the
hope OF finding all the particulars about
forgery he committed nearly four years
ago.
He was here during the greater part of
1881, and toward the end of that year he
left for Mexico. While in small town
there, L forget the name of it, he forged
draft on the Boatman Savings Bank of st.
Louis, Mo-, for $4,000. There was only
one telegraph operator in the place, and
Davis, who then went under the name of
Sllverberg, bought him over. Davis pre-
sented the draft at the bank there, and the
bank wired to ST. Louis to know if it was
all right The telegraph operator fixed up
a reply that it was o. K, and the $2S, 900
was paid over to Davis.
Davis was arrested, but the telegraph
operator fed. How Davis got out of the
scrape l do not know, as l have so far
been unable to lay my hands upon the
clippings from the newspapers about the
case which got at the time"
The police here consider Davis one of
the most dangerous criminals in his line
with whom they have had to deal for some
considerable time.