The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-03
MRS. FUSAN DENIES FORGERY.
puyLADELPHIA MAN SAYS HE
WILE AID PROSECUTION.

-.ou for $500 Drawn In Name OF c. j,
whine Cashed by Her No Attempt u
IuItate SIxnaInre-Odd story OF Cruc,
-Woman Partner Began Trouble
Mrs. Margaret Fusan, whose real name
~. notice say. is Mrs. Fusan Pastortield
70 have an examination on the forgery
nboroe against her before Magistrate
WoIsb this morning in the Jefferson
,,ortst police court. Detectives Of q
.r;vate agency and the police who have
Ken working on the case say he woman
has a long record.
Mrs Pastorfeld was arrested on Thurs.
dav on complaint OF Napoleon B. Dotsor
~ AZ Broadway, who charged her will
Sorring the name Of Caleb j. Milne to a
obsck for $500 drawn on the Girard Trust
Company Of Philadelphia. The woman
Sss been confined in the Jefferson Market
prison since.
The detectives say that the woman first
same under their notice through Mrs
sobn Hubert Robins Of 20 West Twenty
sfth street. who complained that Mrs. Pas
tor6eld had attempted to swindle her in
tbe sale which the two women were at
,smnting To make OF an ivory crucifix.
This carving is the property OF Thomas
i Murphy Of Calliooon, N. Y.
The prisoner was seen in her cell yester-
asv' She said that she had acted fairly
Win Mrs Robins. She showed a letter
~ 1905 and signed Anna Stannsrd Robins.
Tbis letter was in the form Of an agree
ment and stated that the two women were
20 endeavor TO sell an ivory carved Cruel
syion and were to share the commission
ATTAINED from the sale equally.
'This agreement Mrs. Pastorfield said,
sexpired on October 81, and since that time
I have tried to sell the crucifx on my own
responsibility" -.
asked about the check, the woman said:
sThe check is not forged. l a say that
poeitively. MIR. Milne signed it himself
md he will not deny it in court. I cannot
tel everything about this affair, put IL will
Nre it will come out all right
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. caleb j. Milne,
whose name, il is charged, was forged
10 a check for $500 by Mrs. Margaret Fusan
Of New York, says he is at a loss to know
why the woman should rave used his name.
Mr. Milne is a wealthy manufacturer OF
white goods. He is a leader of the exclu-
ave Philadelphia Assemblies and a member
| Of the Union League, Art. Penn and Corin-
THAN Yacht clubs. His son, G. j. Milne,
Jr, made the following statement for him
to-day
None oil US KNOWS LulB N1Ib. Eu5bus 4
do not know where she got hold OF
anne The checks which led to her arrest
was drawn on the Girard Trust Company,
and my father has no account there, though
! have.
Il saw one of the checks, which was sent
from a New York firm to their agents here
70 get cashed. as they were suspicious OF 1t.
and there was no effort a to initiate
my fathers signature.
The man who presented the second check.
though, was in a serious predicament. for
a while, for the bank officials thought he
probably knew something of the woman.
but he had ample proof to SHOW how he
came into possession of the check. The
man who had dashed the check was a Mr..
~Beaugardis. My father promised him he
would appear against h woman when
the case comes up in court.
Mrs. Fusan got the money on the second
. check by representing to a friend that her
I daughter had died suddenly in North Caro-
lima and she needed the money to go south
/ and take the body to New York for burial
This woman friend gave it to her husband.
who passed il to another man and the other
man handed it + a firm whom re ave had
some business transactions with n 1t was
they who had one OF their representatives
try to get the check cashed here. as they
we're suspicious OF it..