The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-09
BAD CHECK MAN AT WALDORF
POLICE LOCK UP l.. III. JONES, En-
REFORMER FROM BUFFALO.
He Came to Town with Ills VITO to Buy
the sturtevsnt for Resale, but DsdRt
Put the Deal Throush-Several Hotels
Get His Paper Back Insstisned.

GOt HIS Paper BACK Vnsatisned.
lawyer who some time ago caused saloon
keepers and others in bis alive town a
good deal Of trouble by his efforts at reform
ing things, was locked up in the Tenderloin
police station last night charged with hav-
ing given two bad checks at the Waldorf
Astoria In payment Of a board bill. De-
tective Smith OF the hotel arrested him
at the Hotel Somerset on a warrant issued
in the Jefferson Market police court.
According to the police, Jon es and his
wife went to the Waldorf Astoria on March
and stayed there q week, occupying rooms
which rented at $50 a day His bill
amounted in all to t2iO
He paid it with check drawn on the
Merchants and Traders Bank in Buffalo
The hotel also cashed similar check for
$50 TO accommodate him. The day after
he left the hotel both checks were returned
by the bank marked. Insufficient funds.
Detective Smith traced the couple 10 the
Hotel Somerset. where they have been
staying for about ten days. Mrs. Jones
remained at the hotel last night.
At the police st9tion Jones described
himself as Louis Johnson. clerk He
gave no address. In his pocket was
silver pooketknfe marked Il. H. Jones'"
T las, leaned ear %d,d BY the police that after
Netherland, where he stayed for two weeks:
At the end Of the first week he presented
check for $50 on the Merchants and
Traders Bank in Buffalo, 1t came back.
as the Waldorf people say theirs did
When the manager Of the Netherland
told Jones that his check wasn't good he
seemed much disturbed and said he would
get cash He telegraphed to Buffalo and
obtained money. The next week he paid
his bill in cash.
wife ut the Albemarle. She returned later
to the Waldorf, 1t is said, and got . room
there, as the clerks didn't know who she
was. They found out in few hours and
she was asked to leave. She spent the
night with friends. and when her husband
Hotel Somerset.
According to man at one Of the hotels
who said that he knew Jones, the lawyer
came to town to promote the sale Of the
Sturtevant House property, to a Buffalo
man. Jones felt sure that II he could put
that deal through he would make a lot Q.
when he came TO town.
Holmes Jones has had a meteoric career:
TO the bar he attained notoriety by throw
ing himself vigorously into the job of re-
forming the city. He directed his attention
mostly to excise.
When the Raines law was passed he
went about the German district on Sundays
with a camera, seeking violations Of the
law against covering saloon Windows.
Mr. Jones threw up his reform work sud-
denly and announced that what he had done
was In hne Of work AZ an attorney, and
- the reform forces which hired him could
not pay he would waste no moro time on
them.
He seemed TO prosper moro than the
ordinary young attorney until a week or
40 ago. when ne disappeared Then jude-
n,ents were taken against him by jewellers
and other tradesmen.
Mr.. Jones married few months ago 4
girl from Maryland He bought house
In an exclusive district and furnished It
expensively for his bride. 1t Is now empty.
His father is an elderly lawyer and he Is an
only child.