The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1901-1901, 1901-08-30
DAVIS IS
| BOUND Over
He Is Charged with Uttering a
Forged Check.
HE GOT THE CASH
Woman Suspected as An Accomplish Is
Turned Loose-Goes to Jail in De-
fault Of $1,000 Bonds.
HE GOT THE CASH

with passing a forged check in the
sum of SOS on James Conlon was had
| before Justice Macarthur this morn
ing. w. N. Noffsinger appeared as
counsel for the defendant and County
| Attorney Oliver prosecuted the case.
A good deal of interest has been
manifested in the affair and the JUS
tice court was filled with spectators
during the hearing. There was a
large number of witnesses for the
prosecution while those who appear
ed for the defendant were conspicu-
GUS by their absence The checks
used in the purchase of the goods at
Conlon's were in court and played a
prominent part in the testimony.
Davis, or Smith, it is not known
which is his right name, as he called
himself by either as the occasion de-
manded, struck town about August
Is and Immediately proceeded to
make himself at home. He was &C.
companied by young woman whom
| he met on the train, as she says, and
who came to Kalispell for the pur-
pose of working. When the couple
arrived in Kalispell the girl, Hattie
| Williams by name, notified her pros
pective employer that she would not
go to work as she was married, and
| introduced Davis as her husband.
The couple were in town from Tues
day morning until Wednesday night,
August IA. On the day they left Davis
| bought bill of goods from James
Conlon's store amounting to SIS and
rendered check for $65 made out
to J. l.. Davis and signed by JOS
Hirschburg and purporting to be OIL
the Cascade National bank of Great
Falls. The check was honored and
there not being enough money on
hand to pay it a personal check for
$25 was given him together with the
balance of the money necessary to
make up the difference. The $25
check was casned at the Model cafe
in payment for the dinner of the
couple together with some others who
had been invited to dinner by Davis,
and the couple left for Spokane on
No. that night. During the night
the check was discovered to be a
forgery and on arrival of the train at
Spokane Davis was arrested and
brought back to Kalispell, and on
being arraigned was bound over in
81, 900 bonds.
L. G. Klenck was the first witness
called this morning and testified to
having signed the $25 check on Mr..
| COnlon and that the defendant was
the man to whom the check was CIV
en-. The rest of the witnesses from
the store also testified to the passing
of the check and Charley Dickey who
received the check from the salesman
sworer. that Davis had said that the
endorsement on the back was his
writing and that he was the man to
whom the check had been made out
to. Nothing new was brought out in
the testimony that would in any way
change the status of the case.
w. c. Whips and George Phillips,
who are familiar with Jos. Hirsch-
burg's signature, testified that the
signature of Mr.. Hirschberg was not
in his handwriting and that he SPELL
ed his name Hirschberg, while the
name signed to the check was Hirsch-
burg.
Mrs. L. E. Thompson also testified
that Davis had tried to induce her to
cash $35 check for him, which she
refused to do. She said that the
story that the Williams girl was her
daughter was false and that she
knew nothing OF her whatever, and
had only seen her once before her ar.
rival in Kalispell. She said that she
was suspicious of Davis and had had
as little to do with him as possible.
Hattie Williams testified that she
had known Davis but a short time
having met him on the train and that
she knew nothing whatever of the
checks he carried, in fact that she
did not know what check was. When
asked why she went to Spokane with