The evening world., 1903-08-18
WOMAN FORGER WAS
UP ON PLAIN THEFT
Recognized in Court To-Day as
Having Been Charged with
Larceny Under Another Name
and Quickly Acknowledges 1t

When Mrs. james slngcrly. thr wom-
an forEer, was arragned In jefferson
Market court to-day snc was rrcpE1izel
ny rourdSman in the place as a WON
an vito had been taken to the same
court some mon his ago ON "A charge os
ar,eny and arraIg0ed under a different
name than the one she now uses
The woman admitted she had been in
court n couple of times before and added
that shH had never been convicted. All
she would say was that the charge
made against her WAS grand larceny
The police court clerks were set to
work looking over the records.
With the woman when she was
brought into court to-day was her hus-
band and James Reed. the Two men
who had cashed the checks watch she
drew 80 cleyerly that the forged sigma
turcs were passed by merchants and
bank tclle:s and were not discovered in
some instances until the man whose
name had been forged had seen the
cancelled checks and protested.
Gang Got More than $4,000.
More than 5000 IL the amount tho
gang obtained Ia the la"t six weeks
rIr woman dii all the writing. Sha
lAmtS uat. The men. the puigce say.
.trssel The checks OF the $iUuO. q, 20
AIs sent tlrOugh the Shoe ana Leather
sank In court TO face the men to-day
were clerks from the jewclry stores Of
yHumaG, Btned!ct ana kcenes ANA
aerHs rom the Lincoln National Bank,
AMOUNT 10 $1,000
The woman was moi as talka;ive to-
lay as sne was yesterday. She was
Just as chiprc: ana as pleasant, but
gagc1 to defend hrr ana her nl%lanI
t'.d no NOR, sCcre,s Of the gang, .Nskcl
= tel of what sle had written, she
"Onc thing | wrote was a parody on
IA Die by Georg" Ade. | called II the
'Gooae and the Duck. It was published
N Lie ana | was pad for IT, Another
thing | wrote was TWO Loves ana
Cat
The stun that have Published Is no,
the kind OF work that | wanted to do
! have written many stores | Intended
Tor pub.lGation. | wrote them and then
atter reading them over came to the CON
ClusiOn that they were not what | had
mapped out, and lad men aside. rr-
alizing that | had the ambition but not
the Atness.
I'm forgery had the fitness and no,
the ambition. know | will be sent
to prison. and while aeYe viii write II
| am permitted To. Perhaps they viii
not let me go ahead with my writing
How long do | think ought to gcte /
think year In the pcnitentiary would
be enough for little thing like signing
somebody's else name to a few checks "
You have been here before-last
winter or spr!ng-and YOU were re-
leased, slid roundsman as the prs-
rner stopped upon the bridge.
YES said the woman. II was thersl
mat she admitted the charge had been
grand larceny, Hut refused to tell the
exact nature OF the laTvrNy cnnrup
The three waived eXainiunti3n and
Were held IN $500 each fol trial i'm iha
Court Of General Sessions Wv
After nE held, thG woman said:
Well We VIII have to s,ay in jail Tor
the next three or fDur months, / sun
pose We got no money to get bail. "
II they have any mcueY. tho pollca
say, they Will he able to get bniI ana
II they have any friends In the frn
territy to. whica they belong "faIH'
moruy Will be raised for them TN,
police incline to the belief that lie
garg have put away some money. and
that perhaps more will he forthcoming
for bail Tney expect to see the womaIs
released that she may forge enough to
get the money for the hail for the
others.
Dittenhocfer Gerber & James attor-
neys for the Lincon National Bank. TO-
day obtained from Justice Mccall in
Supreme Court, at attachment against
the young woman's property They
charged that she obtained 500 I'm three
checks to which the name OF Alice
Kauaer, a deposltor In the Lincoln Ma
tional Bank, had been forged.