The age-herald., 1902-05-06
Mrs A Marshall Jumps Board Bill at HiIman and Passes
 Worthless Cheek
REAL ESTATE AGENTS BUSY.
 SHOWING HER PROPERTY
Bought $51 Worth of Goods From chaIifoux, Giving $75 Check In Payment-Traced
 to Augusta.

The police. the Hillman Hotel manage ment and J. L. Chalifoux & Co. are all very anxious to locate Mrs. A. Marshall, claiming to be of New York. Mrs. Mar shall, as she styled herself, bought s5l worth of goods from Chalifoux & Go. and gave them a check for $75 bearing the name of M. L. Jackson of Atlanta. A tele- gram was received from the Capital City Bank of Atlanta yesterday morning stat Ing the check was worthless. Mrs. Mar shall also left the Hillman Hotel and for got to pay for one weeks board, which amounted to about $25. At Calhoun's jewelry store she had ring valued at about s75 laid aside for her. She would have taken that if the clerk had not refused to send it to the Hllman Hotel for her.
 Mrs. Marshall came here manifesting a desire to purchase large tracts of real estate. She had several real estate men slow her pieces of property they wished to sell and she Is said to have told each of them theirs was the best.
 Saturday afternoon she finished her work buying real estate. She went to Harry Mercer's jewelry store and looked at a ring she said she wanted to pur- chase. She asked Mrs. Mercer who was good real estate man to deal with. Mrs Mercer recommended a prominent agent and upon request of Mrs. Marsall Mrs' Mercer telephoned the man and intro- duced Mrs. Marshall to him.
 The agent showed Mrs. Marshall prop erty on South Highlands and she tolo him she was better pleased with ms than any other she had seen. She said she would sign the eeds for 1t as soon as her husband came from Louisville.
 Introduced at chaIifoux's.
 The agent drove Mrs. Marshall to Chal- ifoux's and introduced her to MT. Henry Chalifoux at her request. She stated sne wanted to purchase some goods ana hao heard Chalifoux's was a good place. Mrs.
 arshall purchased s51 worth of goods silk skirt. two silk waists and some other articles She presented check for s1o on the Capital City Bank of Atlanta In payment It bore the name I'M. L. Jack son."
 MT Henry Chalifoux took the check and went back to the office to consult his brother MT. Oliver Chalifoux. The latter came out and talked with Mrs. Marshall It was In this conversation she showed, her shrewdness.
 She first threw MT. Chalifoux off his guard by saying 1t was a pity about poor Phil Hirshfield. of Lowell, Mass, a man for whom MT. J. L. Chalifoux had worked 30 years ago. She said she was a netce of Hirshfelds and was born in Lowell.
 Mrs. Marshall told MT. Chalifoux all about Lowell, and his family. She gave names of streets there and seemed thor oughly familiar with the situation. Af- ter she had done all but prove relation ship with MT. Chalifoux she remarked casually:
 Made Strong Bluff.
 'If you have any doubts about the check 1t will be all right. We will just wait until Monday"
 MT. Chalifoux says when she said that he was certain she was all right and accepted the check.
 If 1t had been a man I would have refused the check and told him to get it certified, but being a woman l took it." said MT. Chalifoux.
 He gave Mrs. Marshall $24 in change. Mrs. Marshall asked him to call cab as she had several other purchases to make and wanted to hurry. She said she would go to the Hillman hotel after that She drove as far as Second ave- nue and then told the driver to go to the Union Passenger station. She got out there, purchased her ticket and then went inside the iron fence. The driver handed her grip through the railing.
 Mrs. Marshall then walked in the di- rection of a southbound train. She was traced as far as Augusta. Ga., by tele- gram. She boarded a train for Atlanta and the conductor states she got off the train there.