Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-02
is AGAIN ARRESTED
Mrs. BoIch Caught Passing Bad
Checks in New York.
BUSINESS MEN SWINDLED
! Detected in the Same Practices in This
City.
SENT AWAY FROM WASHINGTON
Appealed to Her Husband for Help,
but He Refused to
Give It.
BUSINESS MEN SWINDLED
SENT AWAY FROM WASHINGTON
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star
NEW YORK, December 1.-The detective
sense of Mrs. Ray H. Hazen accom-
plished yesterday the arrest of Mrs. Cath
arine ]. Boch, who was lodged in the Mer-
Ger street prison, charged with passing a
worthless check on r. H. Hazen of ca West
18th street, Mrs. Hazens husband. Fol-
lowing her arrest, the police say. COM
plants of all sorts came into them from
numerous department stores in this city
and Brooklyn. The police also declare that
the woman had passed nearly 500 bad
checks and that her profits from them
must be in the neighborhood of $1,000.
In August of this year Mrs. Belch came
to the boarding house in West 18Th street
in which the Hazens live After a short
for $40, drawn in her favor on the Chemi-
cal National Bank by William L. Jones.
1t was drawn in free, flowing hand like
that of business man. The Endorsement
by Mrs. Bolch was in a grabbed hand
writing, quite different from that on the
face. The day after the Chez was cashed
she left the house and MI Hazen later
on got the check back from man to whom
he had passed it with the information that
IT was no good. There was depostor
of that name in the Chemical Bank.
Arrested on broadway.
Mrs Hazen has been looking for Mrs
Bolch ever since, and this afternoon saw
her at13th street and Broadway. She called
a policeman and had Mrs. Bolch locked up.
Her husband was notified and appeared as
the complainant. The police then learned
that there had been three alarms for the
same woman recently in Brooklyn, and that
several stores in new York also wanted her.
Detective Willemse of the Mercer street
station said that Mrs. Bofch admitted that
the check she gave HaZen was worthless
and also that she had passed checks of no
value in five department stores. The police
got from each store number of checks, all
Endorsed ny Mrs. Bolch.
The police say the method followed in
each case with the department stores by
Mrs. Bolch was to order a small bill of
goods. generally about $50 worth. Then
she presented a check for $40 and got the
difference in cash. In each case she or
dered the goods sent to the house of the
person who drew the check as if she were
ordering for him. ~ '..-,--,
The mysterious William l.. Jones is said
to be lawyer in Brooklyn, but the police
could get, no trace of him today. Another
person whose name was used was Louis
M. Ebling, the brewer, the police said
In the room Mrs. Bolch had in West 10Th
street was found a check book of the Chem
size used in business houses. Mrs. Bolch
did not say how she got hold of it.
Evidence to eorroborate part of the doings
of Mrs. Bolch was got today from H. 1.
Steamship Company, in whose employ is
Joseph Bolch, the woman's husband. Bolch
has been with the company for years and
now Is chief engineer of the steamship
Colon, which got into port from Panama
early today.