The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-09-17

GAVE MONEY ON BOGUS DRAFT
FOR S1,7oO.
c. Dabney and r. Adams in Jail for
Committing Deed.

Complaint was filed yesterday with the
clerk of the city court, charging Charles
/ Dabney and Frank Adams with obtaining
/ money from William Schriber of Chicago
on a worthless draft for s1,7co Frank
Adams is already in the county jail
charged with picking mans pocket al
the Santa Fe station Sunday evening
and Dabney was arrested and placed in
jail yesterday. Both men were arraigned
/ before Judge Alexander Yesterday after
noon and their bonds were fixed at s.. 600
each and the preliminary set for Mon
day.
William Schriber alleges that while he
was on a Santa Fe train in this city Sat-
urday he was approached by Dabnev and
Adams. who represented that they were
on their way to Perry. o. T., where they
were engaged in the mercantile business.
They professed to be acquainted with
brother of Mr.. Schriber. who is a resi-
dent of Perry, and whom Schriber was
on his way to visit. The complaint
states that Dabney and Adams told
Schriber that they had some baggage at
one of the express Offices that they were
DESTROYS of starting on its way to Perry
before the train left and that they must
have from $50 to SIS to pay the charges.
Schriber alleges that they said the only
money they had with them was draft
for N,700 and that they represented to
him that they would repay him as soon
as they could see the conductor if he
would give them the money to pay the
express charges. Schriber states that
he gave them SD and took the draft,
and that they did not return and take the
train; that the draft was bogus one;
that the men did not know his brother,
and that they were not engaged in bust
ness in Perry, o. T.
Dabney has lived in this city most of
the time for the last twenty years. 1t
is said that he has been working around
a gambling house here but did not bear
a bad reputation with the police. Occa-
sionally he would go away on a trip and
be gone five or six months. Saturday
he returned from one Of these trips. to-
gether with Adams, coming in from the
south, and the police saw them together
on the streets. Sunday they received
word from Schriber that he had been
robbed also descriptions of the men.
Sunday evening at the Santa Fe sta
ton an attempt was made to pick the
pocket of Samuel Gordon. Gordon be-
came aware that he was being robbed
and gave the alarm. In the chase that
followed Adams and a man who gives his
name as T. J. Moran were captured and
are now in the county Jail. Adams an
swered the description of one of the men
who robbed Schriber and the police then
seeing Dabney with Adams.
and found that Dabney answered the
description of the second man.
1t was decided to wait until Schriber
could return here and make the com
plant before making the arrests. and
the police department gave out no in
formation about the affair, fearing that
Dabney would become alarmed and skip
out Yesterday Dabney came to the city
jail and asked TO see Adams and Moran
and the police decided to lock him up
with them for safe keeping until the
arrival of the complainant. and he was
taken the county Jail. The complaint
was filed yesterday afternoon and the |
two men arraigned before Judge Alex !
ander. The bond to appear at the pre-
liminary Monday was fixed at loo and |
the men committed to tire county Jail. |
Dabney said that he would give bond |
today
The prosecution in both the pickpocket |
case and the one fled yesterday is being /
pushed by the Santa Re Railway com /
pany. and they have been looking UP /
evidence against the two men implicated I
IN the robbery Saturday