The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-14
DOCTOR IS ARRESTED
|. N. HARRISON IS ACCUSED or
 FRAUD. {
Florida Physiesnn Visited Montgomery and is ChaFEed win Collect tng Money from Mr. Rice on
 Worthless Cheeks.

H pr. l.. M Harrison. who claims to be a physician residing at Monticello. Fla. and who spent a month. until Monday, visiting in Montgomery, is un- der arrest in Birmingham, and will De
 brought to Montgomery this morning
 to answer to a charge of obtaining S130 from Alex Rice by means of two grand larceny, for stealing, as alleged, si4 from Mir. Rice. which he had paid
 the Court Square merchant as part re- checks. fY
 The defraudinR sof MT. 2i;e took place last Friday and Saturday, I cheek drawn by pr. Harrison upon 8 Monti- cello bank for sss being drawn on each
 of those days and cashed at the Rice
 store, while the grand larceny is al-
 legged to have been committed satur- day evening 4 @
 Another warrant, making four in all.
 was sworn out agalnst. the, Florida physician by T c. Dale. secretary to the Attorney General, chargings that
 Harrison had obtained $50 from him under false pretenses on October IS. It seems that Harrison, who had been spending good deal of money about town, went to Mir. Rlce's store last Fri day, and induced the cashier, NJ. Nj. Tresslar, to cash check upon his home bank for $65. The next day, Saturday,
 the operation was repeated. the amount of the check being the same as the first check. Mir. Rice became suspicious, and Har- rison was called into the store Satur- day evening and asked to settle for the
 worthless checks. The physician at once deposited the money he had on
 hand, $l4 in all, against the total of
 S13O he had received from the two cheeks. and promised to pay the halt ance Monday. He asserted at tho same
 time. so 1t Is said. tt,at the checks
 would turn out to be all right.
 This money. 1t is sata: was laid on desk, with paper weight over it, during the conference. but it disap- peared at the same time that Harrison walked out of the door. Both Mir. Rice and Mr, Tresslar supposed that the oth- CT was caring for the amount, and no suspicion was aroused because of it's absence until they compared notes.
 Harrison had promised that he would call on Fred s. Ball, who was acting as attorney for Mir. Rice in the mat Ger, on Monday and pay the fufl amount due. Instead of the physician from Florida calling to see him on that day, however, telegram was received rom him dated at Calera, in which the doctor said that he was sorry he "could not meet his appointment"
 The matter was at once placed in the hands of the police. aud Day Sergeant Oscar McDade telephoned to Blrming- ham suspecting at once that Harrison | was bound for that city Chief Taylor also telephoned to Calera and learned that Harrison had stopped oyer a train there. sending the telegram 70 MT. Ball. | and then proceeding on to the North 1 Alabama metropolis. He arrived there | about o'clock Monday evening, and went at once to the Hiilman Hotel, | where he registered under his own name. and where he was found by the detectives who had been sent to arrest him. The Montgomery police were not notified of the capture until early yes- terday morning. when Chief of Police i W. E. Weir of Birmingham telephoned i Day Sergeant McDade that Harrison | was under arrest there
 Chef of Police Taylor at once left for Birmingham for the prisoner, and will bring him beck to Montgomery. He l is expected to arrive this morning at II o'clock. The lime for his prellmi- | nary examinations upon the various | charges against him has not been set
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