The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-05
YELLOW HAIR And BAD CHECKS
TFNDERLOTN VISION NOES TP
the HOOD ALCOHOL MIR.
They'd Had IIoch, the Mutl-widow Up
There, and sandrock. the Boy Bandit
And Now J0e's Bride Has Gone WIN
Their Cash and All Joe's Trousers

There, and sandrock. the Boy Bandit
And Now Joe's Bride Has Gone VIII
Their Cash and All JOes Trousers
With the corners Of Tenth avenue and
Forty seventh street for a centre, the neigh
borhood for several blocks around has been
Literally sprinkled with bogus checks.
and Detectives Quinn aud Fitzpatrick
OF the West Forty street police
station are looking for the dashing youn <
WOMAN with yellow hair who did it.
Helen Gates is the name the checks bore
payee and they were signed by p
/ Mcclure" They range from s. 10 10 sas
and among those who have these souvenirs
of the blooming Young woman's industry are
| Charles Brandt, who is a butcher on ore
corner, and the Pekovitch Bros. who
are grocers on another corner. Edward
Miller, grocer on the next corner north
has a memento, and p Ross Of 442 West
Forty-ninth street is also possessed Of a
souvenir that cost him $40 Joseph +.
Feist Of 40 West Forty-second street las
Il Mcclure autograph that cost SIS. and
two doctors Of the neighborhoud are also
among the mourners. Mr.. Miller told
about il yesterday
Around in Forty ninth street Mrs Hauf
is janitress of an apartment house. She
Is known about the neighborhood az "A
respectable woman and the tradesmen trust
her. Suddenly she began to appear with this
dashing young woman whom she introduced
az her daughter-in-law and the daughter
in-law always had check 10 cash She
first wanted me TO cash one for SIS, hut de-
INJURED Then she took IL down to Peko-
witch and he passed over the money II
was very hard to refuse that young woman
You'd have ceshed check for her YOUR
self on sight. When she came into my store
and bought dollars worth Of stun and
rendered me a hve-dollar check. well.
cashed IT, Why my clerk here would
have cut right IN and cashed it for her him
self il hadn't But ! cashed il all right.
And then the superb ways of the young
womanl
Why when cashed that check she |
actually gave me a twenty-five cent tip |
with my own money right in my own store
for %aiting on her.
Well. when the check came back ". G.
! went up 10 see Pete Ross. the carriage
trimmer in For;y-unth street. and tell him
about it. said to him. Pete. says |.
'how's this3 Then | told him Pete. he
looked kind Of queer. Mrs Ross was there
at the time. When she had gone ont Pete
he fished out n piece Of paper and he says.
says he, How's thatP Blessed if il wasn't
another Of those checks She'd done Pete
for tenner
We'll, | got Quinn and Fitzpatrick from
the police station and we went around 10
Mrs. Hauf $. thinking we might find her
1aughter-in-law there. Mrs Haun said
all she knew was that the young woman
came homo with her son about three weeks
ago and threw her arms around her neck.
burst into tears and sad. Mother Oh.
ne mother Joe and arc married aud
I'm your daughter"
Joe Ia Mrs. HauF's son He is a motor
nan and runs at night. We asked where
Joe was, and he was in bed. We wanted
1im TO come out. But there was little
difficulty about this. for Joe is a little shy
IN clothes just now Fact is, the dashing
Young woman, after pawning most of Joe's
portable property. took to pawning his j
clothes, and he has 20 sort Of skrmish
around for apparel when he wants to ap- {
1ear. But we got n sort Of pair OF :
'reechesin TO him and he came out.
Joe said the first time he saw the dashing ]
-ounR woman she rode on his car and 5
Jared him TO go 10 Hastings Hudson e
With her. Joe. IT seems. il a spirited sort {
4 cuss and he don't like 20 take dares r
20 he went TO Hastings he Hudson 7
With her. Then he went to Hastings-on- '
he Hudson again with her Then abe i
flowed they had both better 20 right to r
oes home and live with mother and be n
omfort TO her. I
so that's what they did Then the dash S
~ young woman BEGIN to have checks a
hey came to her by nearly every mail. t
icGuire signed EN- all. I've heard Mcclure
angs out somewhere over in the Tender {
lin at hotel there. But don't know c
'e don't know much about the Tender
,in over here p
This is the wood alcohol belt. YOU know s
"a hearty spirited sort Of a neighhor-
God, too. We had that man Hoch. the 2
idower OF three or four dozen wives.
own here in Forty-eighth street. and the II
oy bandit who held up people in their g.
was one OF MS for a year or so u
nd all those wood alcohol funeral episodes sc
hicn, Of course, you remember. they all
ocurred right around here. Oh. We are j.
lite brisk and CHEEKY in our way over here.
ut we are way behind when it comes 10 il
enderloin society SO We can't Just place n,
cGuire-P. Mcclure "