The San Francisco call., 1896-01-18

of E. B. Rambo in favor of H.
Dean on the Anglo-CaIifornia Bank of this
City for $3.50. E. B. Rambo is manager
here for the Winchester Repeating Arms
Company. The check was certified as cor
rect by Philip n. Lilienthal, cashier of the
Anglo California Bank.
Hutchinson sent the check in here to
Charles E. Stokes, agent for Cook & Sons,
under the Palace Hotel. and he in turn
deposited it to his own account at the
Crocker-W oolworth Bank. When the
check was presented to the Anglo-Cali-
tornia Bank through the Clearing g-house
last Wednesday it was Immediately pro-
nounced a forgery. Not only was Rambo's S
name forged, but that of Lilienthal.
Captain Lees was telephoned for, and
he went down and made an examination
and Immediately telegraphed to W. A.
and Robert Pinkerton at Chicago and New
York. They act in all such cases for the
Bankers Association. This telegram was
followed up with other information, and
Captain Lees became certain, from the
description of Dean, that he was one
Henry EA Desmaries. Then came a tele-
gram from the Pinkertons that Dean had
attempted to negotiate the letters of credit
In Boston January 10. Yesterday Pinker-
ton telegraphed as follows: Dean arrested
Utica, n. Y, this morning; has Cook S
ticket on person."
In answer to this Captain Lees tele-
graphed his congratulations, and sug-
gested that as the owners of both forged
names reside here it would be better to
prosecute Desmaries here
Captain Lees, In explaining how he came
to be certain that Dean was Desmar;es.
said that in 1881 one Henry E. Desmaries,
a clerk In the Oriental Banking CORPORA
ton OF London, lett its employ. Shortly
after he turned up Under the name of John
Boyce in New York at the office of Laidlaw
d Co., the agents of the Bank of California,
and presented a letter of credit for f3O, ,OOO
Wnlle clerk In the bank he had extracted
some blanks and I'll ed one out. With that
letter of credit he obtained from Laidlaw
& Co. 95C00 From there he fled to Paris
where he had formerly been bank clerk.
LaIdlaw's people determined that Boyce
was Desmaries and. got on his track, with
the result that he was arrested and taken
to England.
He pleaded guilty to the charge at the
Old Bailey and through the influence of his
relatives and on ac2ount of the trouble it
would take to bring witnesses from New
York, he was sentenced to only four
months imprisonment. His father is a
distinguished justice in the Island of
Mauritius.
An English family came to this country
many years before and settled in New Jer-
sey, where two daughters were born. The
lain'Ay iCtuiHcu W EuSldllu anu llePe one
of them was married to Desmaries while
he was in the bank.
After the expiration of his sentence Des-
maries came to San Francisco accompanied
by his wife, sister-in-law ana one child.
In March. 1894, he was sentenced to two
and half years in San Quentin for a clever
attempt to swindle Hellman Brothers &
Co., private bankers, out of f25OO on a
forged letter of credit. This time he came
under the name of John Matbeson Wbor
he was arrested for this he had gone with
his family to Oroville and there had agreed
to purchase ranch from Superior Judge
Grey. 70 pay for it he drew draft for
some $1,000 on his father, the Judge in
M aur1tlus, and the draft and deeds were
placed IN escrow to await collection. On
his arrest the deed was returned to Judge
Grey.
Desmaries went to San Quentin for the
Hellman forgery, and was released from
there On the 18th of last November While
IN prison he made the acquaintance of
young convict, who gave him letter of
Introduction to an uncle in this CITY. q
poor Worklngman. Desmaries immediately
worked off forged check for $40 on the
uncle. This check was signed with the
name OF E. B. Rambo, the same name
signed to the check presented to Cook q
Sons IN Chicago Decem Der 81
On the same day, December Z he went
to N friedman q Co. of this City with a
forged check in his own favor, purporting
on Its face to be certified and drawn on