The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-01-01
beverly Run Down. He Confesses Sell
ing Bogus Shingles.

ing Bogus Shingles.
Victor c. Squires. the man who forged
Re name OF the Great Northern agent az
burlington TO waybills on car load after
ar load OF shingles, and then drew % per
ent. on them from II. r. Duniway. OF
ortiand. yesterday pleaded guilty In the
lperior court at Mount Vernon OF obtain
lg money by false pretenses, and paid
ack the money ne had fraudulently drawn
ON Mr. Duniway
He may have been permitted 10 plead
lilty 10 the minor offense instead OF that
forgery because he has not before ap-
cared in the dock OF a criminal court,
. II the evidence shows that with a little
1 ore experience he would have developed
10 an accomplished swindler. His els
! Use. so simple and vet so effective and
i 3 ruse 10 throw the detective OFF his
ack Clearly show this. But the detective
this case was also clever. student q
ductive reasoning after Conan Doyle's
n heart.
Squires is the son OF a former Baptist
mister at Mount Vernon, and follows
ere the business of photographer. He
not go into the swindling business
I'M his home. but from Phelps, three
les away, from which place he wrote a
ter signed w. H. Harris 10 Mr.. Duni-
III ", prominent lumber dealer Of Port
ID, that he had sold a piece of land for
Is, and had snapped the bolts for shin
s, and would like to ship car load or
re TO Mr.. Duniway at market quota
rs, If shipping instructions were sent
him. The instructions were sent, and
Few days later MIR. Duniway got a bill
ladlng signed H. r. Sanderson, agent
the Great Northern at Burlington, tally
IS and invoice. AS is the custom in the
ngle trade, Mr.. Duniway sent a check
80 per cent. of the invoice, which in
instance amounted to S169.17. Two
er similar forged bills of lading We're
{ and were promptly responded TO by
chs, one for S1S5 and another for $50.
n. Duniway believed these cars TO be
the way TO their destination, and wish
to change the destination of the last
2. he telegraphed to a railroad agent TO
Itch it off. The answer was that no
h car of that number had been heard
N. Information was then sought from
ant II. r. Sanderson, OF Burlington,
shipping point. and 1t developed that
three way bills were forgeries.
elective w. IL. WEIGH was eating his
istmas pie on Christmas day when Mr.
liway sent for him, handed him the cor
ondence and engaged him TO run down
swindler. He came 10 Seattle, saw
!. Thaanum. paying teller of the WASH
on National bank, who had cashcd the
ks. saw the telegraph operator of the
tai Telegraph Company who had re-
ed the swindler's kilograms, got par
description from them of the gentle
q he was in search of, and began 10 rea-
On one occasion when Mr. Thaanum
declined to honor the check unless
n a Geographic order sol disant wv. II.
rris," or Squires, had requested that if
order did not come before he had TO
h the boat, the money should be sent 10
at Stanwood.
ow, then, reasoned the detective, the
dependence is from Phelps the bills of
lg are from Burlington and the money
sent to Stanwood. Looking at the geo.
)hical position OF these places, he found
mt Vernon was the central point. But
e was a bank at Mount Vernon at
ch any resident of any of the towns
ned could have cashed the checks with
trouble than at Seattle. for here the
lier demanded a telegraphic order for
a one. However, he had a feeling that
mt Vernon was the point at which 10
n operations.
ne first thing that he did when he ar
q there was to go TO the postofiice and
lire for letters for "W. II. Harris
swindler had foreseen this. There had