The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-07-17

issuing fraudulent checks, by one Of
our members. The detective agency
located the wrong man at Mandan and
their mistake was discovered by the
sherin OF McHenry county. when he
went to make the arrest. Massingham
was afterwards apprehended at Grand
FORKS and is now serving q term In
the state penitentiary.
The Pinkerton people were employ,
ed In an attempt to locate a man nam
ed Baker. with several aliases, who
was reported as issuing forged checks
at Cando. We failed to locate Baker
although he was followed to Buffalo, N.
Y.
One of our members reported frau
dulent checks issued by one Raw Coon
an on the bank at Harvey. Through
postal cards sent out to our members
Coonan was arrested and placed In
jail at Hankinson. The party at Har-
vey suffering the loss, through a
checK cashed for Coonan, refused to
make complaint, by reason of
promise from Coonan to make good
the loss, and We were forced to re-
lease Coonan after keeping him in
Jail nearly week.
Fraudulent checks were reported
issued at Fargo by one Wayne Jones
and Jones was traced through several
states by correspondence with other
bankers associations, and association
members in three of the states were
notified to be on the lookout for him.
He recently made good several
amounts obtained through fraudulent
checks in this state and we therefore
have not made any further attempt to
locate him.
But one successful bank robbery was
reported during the year. This was a
daylight hold up" at Crosby, N. d.
One of the men was recognized by the
bank officers and we succeeded in
getting photograph of this man,
which was filed with the Pinkerton
Detective agency. Since then we have
partially located this man. The county
officials Of Williams county have been
notified where he can be found but
have so far failed to 60 after him.
We could undoubtedly secure his ar
rest by offering sufficient reward,
but this has not seemed advisable.
An unsuccessful attempt at burglary
was reported by one of our members
at Hunter, N. d. No damage of any
consequence was done and no clue
could be found by which the burglars
could be followed.
l have gone into detail in these
matters as covering the report of the
protective committee and to show Won
the value to you of the association in
apprehending criminals of this class.
In order to carry out the usefulness of
our organization in this direction
members are urged to notify the sec
retary's office promptly of all crimes
and frauds In which you are interest
ed. We have a system of exchanging
information with associations in other
states and can often locate GRIMM
al IN this way. 1t would seem that
we are now financially able to offer
cash reward for the apprehension of
criminals operating among our mem
bers. This would undoubtedly have
q beneficial effect in apprehending the
Grass OF criminals We seem to have to
deal with.
AS you are all aware contract was
entered into for the care and cleaning
OF time locks. of members of the as.
ISOLATION, with E. P. Sunberg & Co.
OF Fargo. The time lock companies
nave made strenuous effort to keen
this business from going to Mr. Sund-
berg and the time lock committee will
no doubt urge you to have this worl,
done by his expert, who is thorouphlv
competent and will give you excellent
SERVICE Our contract with Mr.. Sund-