The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-02
WONAN'S TRAILOF BADCHECKS
UIFE or ONE VICTIM HAS MRS.
BOLCH ARRESTED.
several Department Stcrcs Think she's rho
Woman Who Paid tor Goods With
Worthless Paper. Getting Change In
Gash-lIusband Refused To Help Her.

Woman Who Paid tor Goods With
Worthless Paper. C:e,tins Caanse In
Husband Refused To Help Her.
The detective sense Of Ms. Ray II. Hazsn
sccomr lsAed vest erday the arrest OF N =.
tathl inc j. Boil h, who a lodged in the
Mercer st cot prison, charged with passing
. va hi 'ss Chsck on X. II. Hazen of 81
West Twelfth st Get, NJ q. Hazen's husband.
iollpwing her arrest, tho poll, say, COM
rlIIrts Of all 50 is cams in to thsm from
nums-ous department. stores in this city
and D"ookl n. The police also declare
that tho woman had passed nearly 500,
uad ch 'cks. and that her profits from them
INST be in the neighborhood OF 5000.
IA August Of tins year Ms. Bol5h came
'p the boarding hous, in West Twelfth
~ 'ect, in which the Hazens live. Aft er
. shot timo she got NJ. Hazsn - casa 4
,heck for $40, drawn in her favor on the
,hemioal Nat ional Rank by william l..
Jones. II was drawn in n free flowing
'and ike that of a business man. The
Endorsement by Mrs. Bolch was in & Grabbed
Landwi iting, uuitr different from that
"a the face. The day aft er the chsck was
,!shed shs lett thu hous, and NJ. Hazen
ltr on get the Oh ok back from a m t.
To ~ ~ "a II Nv III NV u
ten th2t e was no good. There is no de-
loSitor of that nam in tine Chemical bank.
Mrs. Hazen has been looking FOR Mrs.
Eo!ch ever since, AMI yesterday afternoon
raa her at Thirteenth street AMI Broa l.
way. She called a policeman AMI had Mrs.
Bolch lockei up. Her husband was aotiiei
anl appeared as the complainant. The
poice tlen learned that there, hal been
three alarms for the "a ne woman recently
in Brooklyn AMI that several stores in New
York also wanted her.
Detective Willetnse vi the Mercer street
station sal ! that Mrs. Bolch a1nittel that
the check she gave Hazsn was worthless
ana also that she had passed cheeks Of no
vaIue in five deuA-t nent stores. the police
got from each store q number OF checks,
al endorsed by Mrs. Bolch.
II was consi lerei old that the stores
accepted thess checks, mas much "a the
Chemical Bank does not per, nit a small
checking business and does not accept small
accounts. The police say the method fol-
loved in each case with the department
stores by Mrs. Bolch was to order a small
iii Of goods, generally about $50 worth.
Then she presented a check Tor so and got
The difference in cash. In ga n case sho
ordered the goous sent 10 the house Of the
ptrson WHO GIew the check as IL she were
p~rIering for hi II.
The myst srious William l.. Jones ia said
10 be a lawyer in Brooklyn. but the Tolice
could get no trace of him yesterday.
another Eerson whose name was used was
LOUIS NJ. Ebling, the brewer, the Folice
said. Mrs. JAMES kyan, who keel the
boirIing house at "a West Twelfth street;
san that her name was used. MIR. Ebling
and Mrs. Ryan frequently got goods from
Gel atm mt stores which tLey had not
bought and which they returned 10 the
stores. There they learned that they Lad
been Eaid for anu II was not UI.tII tht stolts
got the worthless checks DacK that they
managed to mtdnAle the mystery. In
the room Mrs. bolch had in West ! welfth
street was found a check book of the Chemi-
cal National Bank. Mrs, Ryan said, Of the
si4e us d by business HOUSES. Mrs. bolch
lid not say how she got hold Of il.
Lvi1encs to corToborate r ant Of the doings
Of Mrs. Bolch was got VI st erday from II. ].
Eowden. manage OF the Panama Railroad
It 'elnshiD Conn any IN whose emf 10y is
Jos I b Bolch. the woman's husband. holch
has been w.tn the COM any for years ami
now is chief engineer of the steamship
Colon, which gets into Port from Panama
.arlv today.
Mr.. Bowden said hat he had seen a letter
from Mrs. Bolch 20 her husband, which
announced tnat she and her daughter had
rot into trouble with the police In Wash
ington through passing bad checks and
appealing to him to help them out. The
letter promised reform. Mr.. Bowden said,
II he would help them this time.
"Bolch is a clever and capable mar whom
We like very well" said Mr.. Bowden. land
has been with us for many years. He
rhowed me the letter because he was pug
yled as to what TO do. Finally he said to Inc:
No, ! won't help them. I've done IL too
often and I've spent all the money I'm going
TO to get them out Of trouble. I'm through
With both Of them"
from u mau in Roslyn, who had rented "A
house to Mrs. Bolch, who CAV her husband
as reference. Mrs. Bolch rented the house
furnished and gave a bad check for the
rent She also had a lot of goods sent there,
Nlr. Bowdcn declared the man had said.
Nr. Bowden s i'll that he had inquiries from
many New 'YOrk department stores as to
Understanding after his wife had tried to
open accounts, giving her husbands name.
she is bolrh's second wife, said Ar, bow
den.
Detective Wiliense said yesterday that
.fr,. Bolch had toll him that she and her
daughter had got six hours notice lust
u short time ago from Ch.ef OF Police Syl-
vester 70 cult " ~ashington, and that they had
got out after their release from detention.
Willie use said that he understood that the
daughter was here In Brooklyn. The
daughter is named ll,Zabeth, and is
- NNdAS - e-LlL y ~ ~ ~
detective " license said that he had
learnr from another source that a short
tir o ago a man in Panama had hanCed to
Bolch q letter containing a draft for $50 TO
he handed TO the mans wife in Jersey City.
Nhen Bolch got home his wife took the draft
AMI Bolch had TO make good to the man in
PanaTa.
Yrs. Bolch in the police station gave her
address as 1923 Spruce street, Philadelphia,
and said that she was SO years old. In a
rocket in her skirt was found three Con-
federate bills. a newspaper clipping with an
.rticle entitled, Satan Is a CRATER" three
rawn tickets for snail amounts and q card
rarke1 Fl r. Keys, Sttorney- at law Sixth
and y streets, Washington with the mare
GEORGE Niaglone, law yer, written on the back
n pencil.
When she is arraigned in Jefferson NJ arket
court today representatives OF New norK
and BROOKLYN department stores viii be
there to wake sure II she is the person who
PASSED checks on them