The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-05
POSED AS Z. F. O'CONNOR, JR.
BUFFALO HOTEL SWINDLED BY
A WORTHLESS CHECK.
George F. Jackson OF Brooklyn Charged
With Impersonating Assistant U. q.
District AttOrney-Arrested on q
Trolley Car-Ran Foul OF Law Before.


George Frederick Jackson, 80 years old
OF AL Quincy street, Brooklyn, was arrested
yesterday noon in Gates avenue car at
Fulton and Smith streets while riding with
his mother, by Detective Sergeants Brady
and Mccormick Of Capt. Formosas staff I,
on a warrant issued in Buffalo on complaint
Of II. C. Griswold of the Hotel Touraine.
The complaint alleges that jackson,
under the name of Eugene F. o Conner, Jr. f.,
Assistant United States District Attorney
and son of former Senator Eugene +.
O'Connor, passed worthless check for
$50 bearing the forged signature OF Eugene
F. O'Connor, Jr, in the settlement OF his
hotel bill. 1t is alleged that jackson has
been travelling around the country handing
out visiting cards bearing the name Of
Eugene F. O'Connor, Jr., and paying his
debts with checks.
About a week after Mr.. Grisw old received
the check from jackson 1t was returned as
no good" He Immediately wrote Mr..
O'Connor, asking what he meant by allow
ing his checks to go to protest. MIR. O'Con-
nor promptly replied that he didn't know
what his correspondent meant. Mr..
Griswold wrote u full description of all
that had occurred at his hotel during the
stay of the man supposed to be O'Connor,
sending along description OF the man and
also photograph that had been left behind
by jackson.
The Assistant United States District
Attorney had some knowledge OF young
jackson and advised the hotel proprietor
to get out warrant for his arrest.
jackson is n handsome, fashionably
dressed man, who has been In trouble be-
fore. He is the son Of an Official IN
He was educated in the Adelphi
Academy and the Polytechnic Institute
Some months ago he was released from
the Elmira Reformatory, where he had
been sent for passing bogus check.
ass sen the ss 3aGA somp Tas oG Ssv b
against him. When told, he said
AN right, l will go along. Excuse me.
mother"
His mother became almost hysterical
At Headquarters jackson refused to make
any staten ent and he was held to await
the coming of the authorities from Buffalo.
jackson was arrested in 1901 for obtain
ing $500 from Edna j. Miman Of Philadel-
phia. When searched yesterday a clipping
from Utica newspaper was found in his
pockets telling of the arrest Of young
man who gave the name of William Merrill,
son of the Mayor of Cripple Creek. Col,
for passing worthless checks.
The story told about the young man
stopping at the Seven Lakes House in the
Adirondack Mountains and about check
book on the New York County Bank that
had been found in his room, which showed
that he had drawn worthless checks to the
amount of 81 ,6Ss, all of which had been
repudiated. 1t stated also that Merrill had
been very attentive to young woman
of Utica. and that he had her watch in his
possession when arrested, as well as two
pawntickets for two diamond rings that
he had pledged for $3.50. Merrill was re-
leased and his case cleared up by the arrival
of a relative from Brooklyn, who made
good on the checks. The police allege that
the Merrill of Utica and their prisoner,
jackson, are one and the same