The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-06
LOOK FOR FORGER.
One Is Having a Pleasant Time
With GrOcers.
Only Small Amounts Secured at
Each Place.
FIVE HAVE REPORTED.
Losses of These Aggregate Only
$685..
-" Keeper - of Copeland Poker
Game Is Fined $50.
FIVE HAVE REPORTED.

-Four grocerymen in the east part of
Topeka and one in Potwin have been
worked by forger, according to their
complaint, with small checks amounting
to total of s6305, in the instances so
far discovered. The police are looking
for the guilty party. They think that
he has more victims about the city, who
have not yet reported their losses
The following cases have so far been
/ presented to the police for investig ation:
Check for SIP. so made to order of J. R.
Hanscom, and signed by F. M Forsythe
| of The Bank of Commerce, Kansas City
Passed on Neil A. Haggart, who has a
grocery store at Sixth and Locust
streets.
Check for $3.50 made to order of Mark
Robinson, signed by J. B. Dorsey on the
Bank of Topeka. Endorsed by Frank
Robinson. Passed on and cashed by the
Potter Grocery in PotWin.
Check for s12, made to order of Fred
Nelson, signed by T. D. Slosson on Bank
! of Topeka. Passed on and cashed by
Frank Loud, a grocer on East Fourth
street.
Check for s11.75 made. to order George
Il. Thomas, signed by w. ]. Keith on
Citizens State Bank of North Topeka.
Passed on and cashed by the Lamb gro
Gerry on East Sixth street.
Check for $14 made to order of Charles
G. Qlesner, signed by ]. v. Frantz per
National Bank of Commerce, Kansas
City. Passed on and cashed by a gro
Gerry store at Eighth and Lime streets.
These are all the cases reported to US
at present. said Detective Joe Ross
this morning, who is working on the
| matter I think there are more how
ever which have not yet been reported
to us. 1 think that all the checks are
the work of one person. The handwrit-
ing and the manner of obtaining the
money indicate that. The man who is
passing the checks, in each instance
went into the grocery store he worked,
and ordered about dollars worth of
groceries. giving a fictitious street num-
Der to which they should be sent The
grocer bit right there, and after deduct
ing the cost of the goods which he
bought, handed back the change All
of these checks were passed during Feb
ruary. We have no clue as yet to the
guilty party None of the grocers got
good description of him. But we hope
that by making the matter public in
this way other stores will be placed on
their guard
R. w. Charlesworth, a young man
who has been in charge of the shooting
gallery at the Mutascope Amusement
theater, a few doors south Of
Eighth street on Kansas avenue was
arrested by the police on Saturday even
ing on the charge of seduction for
which he is wanted by the officers at
st. Joseph, Mo. He was turned over to
the officials of that town today.
On Saturday afternoon Harry Bone
torney for the four men who were ar
rested by Chief Stahl in the Copeland
hotel on Friday night for playing poker.
He entered a plea Of guilty for DR.. l. M.
Vohr. the Keeper Of the gambling
place. as the booking read. Vohr was
fined $50 which was promptly paid. |
The charge against the other three, |
whose names were given as John Thon- !
as John Charey and w. A. Meyers, was |
dismissed, per agreement. The chief
was after the keeper" With the as
sessment of a heavy fine against him, |
the chief considered the incident /
closed - He is the man I wanted said
Stahl this morning. He is the most
guilty party. We stuck him on plea
of guilty and that satisfied me-
Five DRINKS were fined in the police |
court this morning. They were garner
ed in on Saturday night and Sunday.
The data: Charles Carlson, drunk; oc-
cupation stonemason; fine, SIS. John La
Rue, drunk; occupation, lineman; fine, |
IS. J. Fox, drunk; occupation, stone
mason: fine, So. H. Tucker, drunk; Oc- |
cupation. barber; fine SO. Robert Hull |
drunk; occupation, bridge builder; hne' |
S. All paid up.
A Methodist presiding elder, who gave
his residence as Morris county, was |
brought into the police station this |
morning and charged with disorderly I
conduct. He wouldn't give his name,
so was booked as John Doe. Asked to |
tell his story he said: L am a farmer,
IS years old. I was passing through
town this morning, and between trains I
got off to see If I could ma colored |
man and wife to go on my farm to live /
there. 1 went into several places on the
North side where colored people lived /
One of the colOred women SAID Il step |
ned on her toe l went outside and she |
came running after me, declaring that |
I had been disorderly or disturbed her /
peace. The officers arrested me and /
was brought over in the patrol wa
I'VE want your name" demanded the
7 don't want to give it, was the re-
ply. I want to see the chle1. 80 s,.oo,,
hands like long lost brothers AFTER a
quiet communion between the Two De
hind closed doors, Stahl came Gown
stairs and ordered the old man released
He went out happier than a boy with
a new pair of skates. The chief SAID
I could go home,' he said, with tears
in his eyes
What is his name, chle1!' was asked
by the reporters
I won't give it out, was the answer.
.I have known him for 20 years He
is a presiding elder in the Methodist
church and a mighty fine man. l have
heard him preach many time he
did nothing wrong wouldn't have had
him locked up for anything under the
sun l told him to go. wouldn't have
his name made public for good deal.
None of the other officers knew him.
They were Just on the point of clappinS
him in jail, when he was rescued by the
chief.
Thomas wade. colored charged with I
robbing BIitz's jewelry store, while en-
ployed there as porter, was this MORN I
ing sentenced to 80 days IN the SHAW
nee county jail by Judge A W. Dana
of the district court
Ella McComb, colored. charged with
robbing Aunt Jane DAVIS OF SlO ABOUT
a year % was fined $40 and costs in /
the district court this morning by Judge
Dana.