New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-04-03
LAY IT TO " PONIES"
Police at Last Catch Nan accused
of Mann FOrgerIeS.

A man who said he was Charles Hoffman,
of No 4O4 Eighth-ave, was arrested IN Slxtn-
ave- department store yesterday and afterward
locked I'D I'm the West Thirtieth-st. station on
a charge of forgery. The police say that ne Is
Carl Ffess. and that they have been trying 10
catch him for two months
After making purchases amounting to ST. In
the store he rendered in payment check 1or
$50 drawn on the Germania Bank. signed
lotto Denecke" and payable to B. Altman *
Co. The clerk told him to get the check casheo
at the office. As soon as he presented the checK
TO the cashier he was arrested by the store ue-
tective. A styIisnly dressed young woman ac-
Commanded him to the store but when ne was
arrested she disappeared.
At the station there were found In MS pocAe'S
several other checks. all signed Otto Deneche.
One of these payable to kaskel & hasAei
and was for 500; another was payable to him
self for $50 and A third to the Consolidated Gas
Connauv for S1J He had about forty pawn
tickets. amounting to about sl.Ooo. Tor eolu
watches diamonds and clothing
The arrest was the result of a general alarm
sent out by the Retail Drygoods Assoclation'
and the complaint which had been mdde %
Otto Derecke a furniture dealer, at NO iOA
East Twenty-third-st.
According to the police. the prisoner mas Dee"
passing forged checks on the drygoods HOUSES
several months mas ODldiACu SN'N@'--
sand dollars from merchants in Brooklyn. and
has recently started in to do the same thlng III
Manhattan In every case the checks were
signed Otto Denecke. Mr.. Denecke saw the man
lae+ niSht at the station house. but said that ne
had never seen him before. Mr.. Denecke maoe
the charge Of forgery on which the prisoner
was locked up. -
As he was led to cell he said: HORSES uiu
It, bucked the ponies pretty strong ouI 'heS
beat me- My mother lives in Germany anu -
very wealthy. AS soon as she hears Of my
nredicament she will send enough money 10
pay back all the money have TAKEN ana
will then return to Germany
The mans wife. who said that her name was
Beulah Feiss, was seen at No us west l"en.S
,o,,rtb-st yybera she has furnished room she
said that she married Feiss two years ago At
that time she said he was in the jewelry ousi-
ness and was doing we'll. but after time he be-
gan TO play the races and TO neglect her she
said she lived with her parents at BinghantOn'
n Y. before her marriage. but she refused 10
give their name She said she was TO nave met
her husband and his brother, Herman FeisS' d
wine agent at the home of a friend YESTERDAY ~
make some provision for her, as ne had give"
her no money for months. and she mad beeh
cornpelled to live on the small sums that heF
relatives I'm Binghamton sent her. 1t was alsO
her intention. she said. to have her husOaho
placed in n sanatorium-
Several letters were also f-und IN his pockets.
One. signed Babe" filled with expressions Oh
endearrnent was evidently from woman IN
Jersey City The other was signed Lena b.
Clark. care Mrs. NJ. Bernhardt, OF % west
Nfnetv-fourth-st" The writer chided the man
for ceasing to care for her. The first letter was
addressed TO No. go West Fifteenth-st-. care OF
Mrs carey Mrs Carey said a man answering
to the description Of Feiss had occupied nan
room at her house for several weeks