The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-06-24
HIS CHECKS NO GOOD
so oGLETHoRPE CLUB HAD j. r.
SHEPHERD ARRESTED.
BEAT CLUB OUT OF BAR BILL,
WARRANT FOR HIS ARREST swORN
OUT By sUPT. HAZLEHURsT.

shepperd Has Had a Rather Check
cred Career Since His Advent in
Savannah-Introduced TO the Ogle-
thorpe Club by a Member, He Gave
worthless Checks on n WaycrOss
Bank, which Were Returned Dis
hOnOred-Figured in Dog story
Recently, in which There Was
Also n worthless Check.
j. F. Shepperd, a well-dressed and very
respectable-looking young man, was ar
rested yesterday afternoon at the De Soto
by Detective Frank Wall on a warrant
sworn out by Supt. J. K. Hazlehurst of
the Oglethorpe Club charging him with
being a common cheat and swindler. Shep-
perd was taken to the police barracks,
where he remained until night, when he
was removed to the jail by Deputy Sheriff
Lilienthal, to whom the warrant had been
entrusted and who had been looking for
Shepperd since the previous afternoon.
Shlpperd has been in the city for the
last three months and IS understood to
have come here from Macon, where ne is
quite we'll known. He represented the
Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company
here for a time and made a number Of
acquaintance among the best people. Be
ing of good address, with pleasing man
ners, he easily ingratiated himself and
got on very nicely Being a good spender
and of a sportive turn Shepperd was ac-
cepted as a good fellow and was SO re-
garded by those with whom he associated.
He seems to have been most too much OF
a good fellow for his own good and that
of those who became his sponsors in Sa-
vannah. He was introduced at the Cycle
thorpe Club by a wen-known member,
and is said to have made himself quite
free there. At any rate he succeeded in
running up a bar bill In payment OF
which he gave checks on the Waycross
Bank. These checks were returned dis
honored. there being no funds to Shep-
perd's credit there. The officers of the
Oglethorpe Club then made an investiga-
ton and Superintendent Hazlehurst was
instructed to take steps against Shep-
perd.
The warrant sworn out by Mr.. Halle
hurst Saturday, before Justice NJ.
Naughdn. against Sheppard, alleges that
the accused did, on the seventh day of
June. 1901. by artful means and deceit
full practices, defraud the Oglethorpe
Club. a corporation incorporated under
the laws of Georgia, out of the sum of
$40 currency of the United States"
This warrant was placed in the hands
..F T
frey, who visited all of Sheppards usual
haunts on Saturday afternoon and night,
but without being able to locate him.
They also notified the police of the charge
and requested them to look out for Shep-
pard. Yesterday Afternoon Detective Wall
ran across Sheppard in front OF the De
Soto. Being personally acquainted with
the young man, ne requested him TO &C
company him TO the barracks. which the
latter did unhesitatingly. There he was
Informed of the charge against him. Shep-
pard said he thought there was some
mistake, and that ne would conie cut az.
right. He was locked up to await the
serving of the warrant.
Detective Lihenthal a few hours later
learned of Sheppard's arrest, and imme-
diately proceeded to serve his warrant
and removed the prisoner to the Jail
Sheppard had little to say except that
had he known what the trouble was he
could have arranged it all right, and that
the arrest would have been unnecessary.
1t is stated that Sheppard owes other
bills at the De Soto and Screven and prob
ably other places and 1t is not unlikely
that he touched his frineds at the Ogle-
thorpe for small amounts. His CON
nection with the Penn Mutual is under
stood to have been severed recently. g..
Shepperd will be remembered for some
trouble he got into recently with Mr.. T..
J. Haslam He ran up tailors bin with
Haslam & Co, and gave a worthless
check. When Mr.. Haslam found the
check to be worthless. he attached hand
some Pomeranian dog which Sheppard
was carrying around. this being the only
visible property of the debtor. There was
considerable contention over the dog,
which was paced in the hands of the
court, and was taken charge of by a
young man who claimed the animal as his
property. There was a lively dispute as
10 the ownership of the dog, and the legal
rights of the parties to the case, which
was never definitely settled There may
be other creditors of Shepherds who will
recall him, now that he Is in the tolls.
A.