New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-03
YOUNG FORGER BUNGLED.
FAILED TO HIDE TRACKS.
Thief. Who Stole Securities from
City Bank Easily Run Do1Cn.

All the securities. worth $3.50 600, which were
etoIan from the National City Bank last
"Wednesday bv means of a forged check, pur-
porting to have been drawn by Pearl & Co. on
the Hanover National Bank and certified, have
been returned OF we're recovered yesterday and
the thief and fOrger was prisoner
F+enr1 Ambrose Leonard son Of ex-Poiice
Sergeant Patrick Leonard. only twentE-rour
wears old and for some years employed at S1o a
week AS messenger by Halle & Stieshtz' oroR-
avg at No so Broad-st-- is the person who
startled Wall street by the boldest theft OF Sc
c,,-i.ias in recent years. He was arrested Sun
aa1- ,,,orrine near his home. at 5S6 East
isk+bs4 and yesterday he was held at the
Tonbs noIice court In $4,000 bail for examine
lion TO-DAY He was remanded to police mead
quarters in default of bail
1.aonard sent by mail on Saturday the ouIs OF
! .o,er securities to the house OF the senior
''S Of Pearl & Co, and yesterday the police
-, +ba rest where he said they We're. Ihe
o,,+b made a confession after his arrest declal-
;,o that he was impelled to Tn ecrime IN part 10
exnose a weakness in banking nethodS WHICH
he had noticed ,.,,-,
The arrest of Leonard was made easy pecdV'0
10 ,,.e,,+ to 7 c. Brinckman. at No. IL BoWerY'
=, ,a,,ae rubber stamps for the Police Depart
r4 70 have a certifcation stamp made IN
i,.i+otion of that used by the paying teller OF
49,, hanover National Bank This stamp he
r,oadad to complete the forgery of the checK OF
pearl & Co The stampmaker gave the lnfor-
+4on IN the police when the facts Of the
forgery and robbery We're published.
leonard first went to the stampmakers shop
=, the Rowery a week ago last Friday. he had
with him a drawing of a certihcaton stamp OF
the Hanover Bank. which he had coplel from
= check OF Halle & Stiegrtz. and he gave an
which
,+s on the back of the drawing he wrote,
~ A Berg. No x West 125th-st"
..vor can send the stamp to that address, he
id 70 Frfnckman at the same time paying for
the stamp in advance.
%ext dav, however. Leonard returned to the
sbon and said he wanted to see the stamp.
When he tried it he complained that the word
certified" was heavier than he had directed
on the following Monday he went 10 the shop
again. taking along torn piece of a check
which had on it the certifcaton of the Hanover
Bank and along one end Of which was printed
the name of Halle & Stieglitz
Nov YOU make the stamp exactly like that"
he said.
ropcED CHECK WORKED PERFECTLY.
later the same day he got the stamp,
and on Tuesday he completed the forgery Of
Tho ohecs for S39oO37 10 purportg to bear the
siena+nre of Pearl & Co and the certihcaton
90 ,1r Burns having teller of the Hanover Bank.
He knew for exactly what amount to make the
Lo,- because he had looked over the shoulder
&c o messenger of Pearl & Co. at the National
ci. pont when the envelope containing the
s.o,ri+iee pledged for the 100000 loan had been
,,a,tered AT the bank and had noted down the
memorandum on the envelope. Leonard told
+t,o r,,ioa that on Wednesday he met another
,,,osso,,ger whose name he does not know, near
The ,zotionaI Citv Bank, handed the forged check
to him and said:
..t1era you're not in hurry. Take this check
into the bank and get the envelope it calls for
Tve got another call down the street and III
meet Won here in few minutes
Tho strange messenger. Leonard says, obltg-
;rel, took the check into the bank and passed
- through the window. while Leonard went
-. ~ street and watched from the steps
- +,o C,,ston7 House When the boy emerged
go, .,, hank with the envelope Leonard met
,,u tool, the envelope with thanks and rushed
off as if in a hurry.
Next day Wall treet rang WIN tle news
- tho robbery and forgery superintendent
.,,o. of Pinkertons agency and Acting
l,a-tai, NcCauley OF the detective Bureau
;;rod forces in an investigation. nut they
80 oil al sea until Saturday, when Brlnck-
ma, went to Police Headquarters and told Nc
C,a,,1o, ba had made the certifcation stamp for
the forged check. Leonard iiau loreotlen 10
-. ,,-o,. from the shop the drawing he had
first made and the piece OF q chtch win the
-, ,,t ual1e & stieglitz on it, and Brinekman
- 49,, -, NrcCauIey, who went down to the
e-.ta,, r,t,, Rank to show them TO Dougherty
,,,,ol-,,,a, was taken along to give a de-
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