Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1906-11-04
NOTE RAISER
PLEAD GUILTY
EUGENE ST. CLAIR BOUND OVER
TO GRAND JURY
PASSED VERY bogus BILL
Phony Roll Of Bills Found on His Per
son from Which He Clipped Fig
ures to Aid in Raising Notes

Eugene st. Clair, alias James Harris
yesterday afternoon pleaded guilty in
Commissioner Hyam's court of the
charge of raising the denominations
on two dollar bank note to twenty.
The prisoner was remanded to the fed
eral Jail without bail to await the
action of the next federal grand jury.
st. Clair, when arrested Friday eve
ming by officers Hall and Wilson Of
the city police force, gave his name
as James Harris. He was arrested
following the information given the
police by f.. l.. Martins, the drug
gist on East Third street who told
the police that the prisoner had tried
to pass a twenty dollar bill on him
which didr : look good Wilson i'm
medately set about to find the per-
son answering the description given
by Martins and in less than half an
hour had the man in the tolls.
Wen arrested the bill spoken of by
Martins was not in his possession.
On being searched, however, the man
was found to have a roll of bogus
notes on him as large as a man s
hand. These were admittedly "Aash" T"
as they did look at all like real mon
ey. The police were at first puzzled as
to what he had the phony money for.
Yesterday morning, McNaughton Bros.
who conduct meat market on First
street, reported to police headquarters
that they had been defrauded by the
acceptance of two dollar bill which
had been raised to twenty An ex,
animation of the note proved it to
be the identical one which had been
endeavored to pass on Martins. 1t
was then known what the prisoner did
with the phony notes 1t was shown
that he took the figures from the
counterfeit notes and pasted them on
to the real notes, in this manner rails
ing the denominations His work
was crude and would not have de-
ceived a person except when in hur-
ry or taken in a dimly lighted room.
When the note was passed on Me-
Naughton Bros it was after twilight
adm the lights in the store had not
been lit for the evening. The man
bought ten cents worth of steak and re-
ceived in change 1890 in legal tender.
st. Clair maintained Friday night
that he knew nothing of the charge
brought against him and insisted that
he was innocent of anything of the
sort. Until late yesterday morning
he still said that he was not guilty of
the charge. However,when McNaught-
on brought forward the evidence of
the raised note, and the prisoner was
told of it, he finally acknowledged
he was guilty of passing the counter
felt, and before the commissioner
pleaded guilty He will have to be
tried before the grand jury and an in
dictment returned. In the meantime
he will remain in the federal prison
at MuSkogee or Ft. Smith.
st. Clair maintains an air of mys-
terry in regard to his identity. He
acknowledged that he is from Leav-
enworth Kansas, but when asked as to
the truth of the report that he is a
deserter from the regular army, re-
fuses to say word. He did not in
criminate anyone else in his testimony
before the commissioner yesterday but
intimated that when brought before
the grand jury he might have some
thing to say which would involve
others in the ounterfeiting deal.
A money order in st. Glars pock-
Others in the ocunterfeiling deal.
cy had been purchased in New York
City and the entire bunch had cost
1910.