The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-04-11
GAY YOUTH GONE GLIMMERING
SHADY FINANCIERING AND A Sc
CRET MARRIAGE EXPOSED.

Negotiates a Note With Forged
Endorsement and PaImed on a Few
worthless Checks for Small
Amounts-The Erring Youths
Rather Making Good His Financial
Shortcomings-Thc Deserted Wife
Returns Home HeartbrOlen.
Atlanta. Ga. April 1O.-A young man
with a wide acquaintance in the city has
disappeared under a cloud, which, if 1t
should burst before the necessary ar
rangements are made to secure him
against prosecution. would land him in
the penitentiary
In addition to the crime Of forgery and
robbing his employer which is charged
against him. the fast young man has
left behind him ab rokeu-hearted young
wife. whom he married secretly several
weeks ago. The young wife IS a country
girl not at all the sort of girl the miss
ing mans gay companions would have
suspected him Of marrying.
He left town a week ago, but through
the influence Of his family and friends the
matter has been hushed up.
He was employed as bookkeeper. The
gentleman in whose employ he has been
for nearly two years, believed that he
was thoroughly trustworthy Last Fri
day, however, his employer had his suspl-
cions aroused by the young mans failure
to report a collection of S25 but gave the
Young man the benefit of the doubt and
said nothing.
on the Saturday following the young
man asked for a half holiday and re-
ouested his employer to indorse a note
for $50 for him as he said he wanted TO
go to Jonesboro to see his sweetheart p"
His employer granted his request only TO
discover after the young mans flight that
IN iditioa 10 discounting lis note at the
Capital City bank he had made a dupli-
cate Of il and sold the forgery to the
Moody Banking Company.
on Monday when the young man failed
10 show up. and his employer could not get
into his safe, he began to make inquiries,
and soon discovered that before leaving
his employee had forged his endorsement
upon checks collected and signed others
straight out, pocketing the money.
The employer is unable to make an ac-
curate statement of his losses in this way,
as he has not completed his investigation
of his books. His safe is stll locked and
has been so since his employees flight The
bank has made good the bad checks and
these transactions viii amount TO over
s1O0 The young mans father will 1t is
understood, make good the losses of the
banks, but his employer has not yet said
he would let the matter drop without
prosecution. on the other hand, he says
that if the fugitive is located he will prob
ably be brought back to Atlanta.
To-day the gentleman received a call
from the Jonesboro Sweetheart" whom
his employee said he was going to see when
he left week ago. Instead of his sweet
heart she proved to be his wife, whom he
married before a justice Of the peace sew
eral weeks ago. In his desk the mar
rage license was found to substantiate
her claim on the erring young man. The
young wife was accompanied to Atlanta by
her aunt. She had come at Atlanta to seek
her truant husband, and when she learned
the truth of his absence there was a trying
and pathetic scene, the girl returning to
her Jonesboro home broken hearted to
tell her widowed mother of her marriage
and desertion in the same breath.