The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-25
TELLS OF GIRL FORGERS' BAND
CH4RIOTTE MC4BE SAYS SHE
SIGNED CHECKS THEY PASSED.
She's ~ and Had Vanished From Homo
Father Met Her and Called Cop-she
Says Doctors We're the Chief Prey OF .

Father Met Her and Called Cop-she
says Doctors We're the thIef Prey OF .
Young Ncmcn-2 Men Shared Booty.
Charlotte 4. McCabe, a seventeen year
Old Bronx girl. according 70 the police has
been doing the same stunts as Margaret
Connolly, who Cassied the Aston National
Bank She was locked up last night In the
Morrisania police station The police say
that during the past few weeks she has
passed any neutrality-suspicious. forty or Atty
perhaps hundred of bad checks.
Miss McCabe lived with her father, Joseph.
clerk in the General Post Office. until about
year ago. Then she left home. Her
father says that she ia hayward. Nothing
was heard OF her until a few months ago,
when she got employment as clerk for DIT.
y. j. Deery, veterinary surgeon at
Seventy street and Park avenue.
She left his employ about two months ago,
Since then her father has been looking for
her.
Late last night McCabe met his daughter
at l63d street and Third avenue. He
promptly had her arrested. At the police
station he told Sergt. Mclaughlin that
he thought she had been doing some things
that weren't just right, so Detectives Tomp-
kins and Clark were sent to see what they
could learn from the girl They said last
night that she had confessed to them that
during the past few months she had forged
and passed large number Of checks.
The girl, in her story, implicated five
other girls and two young men. who, she
said, secured the blank checks and the
names she was 10 use Some of the names
that were forged, the detectives say. were
those Of Il. A. Pitts, II. W. Stores and DIR.
Decry The girl couldn't remember any
of the others.
Joseph McCabe, father of Charlotte,
said, after his daughter was locked up.
that he had received great many letters
from physicians who had employed his
daughter. telling him that the girl was
suspected of forging their names to checks.
None Of the forged checks, McCabc said
was for over $50. and the lowest were for $40.
Charlotte gave the police t he names OF
the girls and the two young men wi tn
whom she said the spoils were divided
She said that the prime mover in :he check
scheme was girl named Julia, who lived
downtown on the East Side According
TO Charlotte, Julia was at one time en-
ployed IA cashier in dry goods store in
Fourteenth street. and it was there Julia
discovered how easy it was to get checks
cashed
Charlotte says IL was Julia who first
suggested to her that she be employed az
a domestic by physicians long enough to
find out where each employer kept his
money. Julia supplied the check books
and Charlotte says she had great stock
of them
Julia, according TO the girl under arrest
as the police report the confession, used
10 write out the checks and Charlotte her
self would forge the signatures to them.
Then the checks would be given to the
other girls TO get rid Of. The money would
be divided among the girls and the two
young msn who were in the scheme. II
doesn't appear that the young men passed
any of the checks.
All the plans were made. Charlotte IA
quoted by the police as saying, in a room
the conspirators hired in Elizabeth street
There the girls and two young men met
regularly. Julia is alleged to have got the
lions share of the money
Charlotte gave up the names Of all her
alleged pals and told where they could be
found. Detectives went looking for them
TO see how much truth there Is in the story
the girl prisoner tells.
Several doctors complained to the police
that they have been buncoed by bogus
checks recently. In each case the person
who presented the check has been woman.
In several instances the woman with the
check would call when a doctor was out.
Then 10 his housekeeper or some other
member of his family she would intro duce
herself az a patient who had come to paw
a bill.
Several physicians housekeepers vol
unteered TO accept the money the woman
wanted to pav. Then she would produce
her check. In every case the check was
for larger amount than the alleged bill.
The housekeepers almost without exoep-
ton gave up the difference in cash
Among recent victims of this check game
have been.
Dr. Frederick Dearborn. I@ West Fifty
seventh street.
Dr. Worthtngton Paige, Broadway and
Fifty-seyenth street.
Dr. Duuleyy Of 32s West Fifty-seventh
street.
Miss b McGer. s5i Sixth avenue.
Elizabeth Webster. a music teacher. Of
92i sixth avenue
Or. James Moran. a45 West Fifty-elghth
street.
pr. J. p. Henry. 40 west Ffty-cishth