The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-09-18
THE NOTE VALUELESS.
Henry Williams FORCES D. d. Evans
Name as Signer.

The FREE PRESS Thursday gave an
account of suspicious note held by
one of the banks, but as the officials
had no thought of the note not being
of value until the reporter called and
had no time to make an investigation,
it being then after banking hours, no
names were used. The bank was the
First National, and the note was given
by Henry Williams, with D. D. Evans
as signer. Thursday, Cashier Clark
called on Mr.. Evans and learned that
he had signed no such note and that
the signature was good imitation,
but forgery. Mr.. Evans is reSpOn-
sible citizen of Mankato and knew
Mr.. Williams, the forger, we'll. Will
liamS boarded with him for time,
and Mr. Evans went on Williams
note for few dollars once before, but
Williams paid it. The latter was
thus familiar with Evans signature.
Last Saturday stranger asked
Cashier Clark to draw up note pay
able at the bank, for sos, to run thirty
days, which Mr.. Clark did. The ap-
pearance of the maE has passed out of
Mr.. Clark's memory, but he signed
the note as Henry Williams, and
promised to get good signer. Later
in the day, he took the note to the
Stahl House and asked Mr.. Stahl TO
cash it. Mr.. Stahl refused until
Joseph HI. Thro, who boarded there,
came to dinner Mr.. Thro saw MIR.
Clarks writing and Mr.. Evans sigma
ture, and wrote on the back asking
the bank to cash it for Mr.. Stahl.
The latter let Williams have 500, and
on Sunday paid him SIS, and the other
$40. On Tuesday Mr.. Stahl presented
the note to the bank and received S65,
Acting Teller Frank Leonard paying
out the cash.
Chris. Polchow is the man who
cashed the other Widell & Co. check
for s55.
Thos. o. Jones holds Williams note
for SO. Williams gave Mr.. Jones a
note for SIS once before and paid it.
Henry Williams came to Mankato
last iall, and one of the first men he
saw was County Treasurer Lloyd, to
whom he told story that he was just
from Red Wing, had come to Mankato
because there was no work there, had
spent all his money and sold his stone
cutters tools for S.. He stayed
around the court house for few
DAYS, seemed to know all about Mr..
Lloyd's relatives in Wales, and many
things concerning them that were
facts. He tried to borrow money
from Mr.. Lloyd, but failed. Mr..
Lloyd's brother, in Judson, gave the
man employment during the winter,
and during the summer, Williams has
been at work in this city at various
places, at his trade of stone cutter.
Williams was a regular attendant
at the Welsh church, taking a front
seat, and sometimes speaking. He
was supposed by all to be an honest
laboring man. He boarded at several
places about the city, mostly in pri-
vate families, and was last seen
Thursday evening.
The first good description of the
fellow which the police had was when
they read Thursday evenings FREE
PRESS, and they state that If they
had had that description before they
would have had the man under arrest.
1t is thought that he has gone to Jud-
son to collect bill owed him for ma
sorry work, and that he intends to re-
turn to Wales. Chief Yates went to
Judson today in search Of the man.