The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-22
NA7Y FORGER TALKS OF STEVE
MEANING STEPHEN ". ELKINS,
JR., WHOSE NAME HE STOLE.
He Is the Ex-lieutenant VINO was Dis
missed, and Friends Plead That He Is
irresponsible Held TIL Hts Family
Cam he Informed About aaas Plight.

Alfred C. Owen, the csshiered navy Lieu
tenant who was arrested on Thursday fol
forging the name OF Stephen B. Elkins, Jr.,
on checks in payment of his hotel bills
was arraigned i'll jefferson Market court
yesterday and held in $500 bail for
trial in General Sessions. He waived his
right to an examination in the police court
DR.. Wolfred Nelson, of the Aston House,
appeared in court as n fr,ead OF Owen t
family. He had talk with Magistrate
Breen and told the Magistrate that Owen
was not of sound mind and that he was not
responsible for his actions. He said he
h d not been asked by Owens family to
appear, but had come to the rescue as
a friend who knew tho facts in the case.
G. w. Raborg of this city, the young mans
uncle, was also In court.
The Magistrate, after consulting with
these two friends of the young man, adj
yised Owen to waive examination in order
that time might be given to his family TO
take steps TO show that he was irresponsi-
BILE, if he really was irresponsible. If his
family could show that he was of unsound
mind, Magistrate Breen said, the hotel
people would undoubtedly be satisfied to
have the bills contracted by Owen settled
ana WltDuraW IiltlT CfInpblLtS
In court Owen did not say word except
to assent TO tie disposition of his case. In
the prison, however, before he was taken
downtown to the Tombs. he made long and
rambling statement to reporters. In a
manner both confidential and mysterious
he asserted his intimate acquaintance with
young Elkins. He showed note ne had
written, to be sent to Elkins, beginning
Dear Steve. Among other things Owen
aaid to the reporterS:
II have asked Steve to 60 around and
settle those checks. l am sure he will do
it. Know him? Why, of course | do
Whenever he is out of town I'use his apart
ments.
Il nee that Steve says that some one has
been travelling out on the Pacific Coast
in private car and using is name. Perhaps
he thinks | have been doing that. too, but
I haven't w.,
Owen said that on the railroad trip he
made to Little Rock he used the rame
&C. A. Osborne" becarse his baggage was
marked &C. A. o." He said he had uset
the name OF Osgood also at times. He sal
that he had recently been in Pittsburg
with class mate named Collins. who mar
ried a Miss Thaw. He sent a message
yesterday to Marshall Gasquitt Of Cas-
quit, Rutherford h Putnam of 81 Nassau
street, and to John G. Carlisle, former Sec
rotary Of the Treasury. None OF them
RESPONDED.
His mother and sisters. Owen said were
at Quebec summer resort. A man who
knew the family said Yesterday, however,
that the wife of w. J. Crawford Of this city
was, he thought, Owens only living near
relative. She is his sister and is out OF
town.
Stephen B. Ellsins, Jr, has rooms at Is
West Thirty-third street He was not at
home last evening. The report that young
Elkins had been in California recent;
may have been due to the fact that his
father. who is now In Chicago, recently
returned from San Francisco