Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-28
Mystery Over Society Girl and
Her Financial Doings at
Rochester, Mimi.
SUMMONS HUSBAND TO HER AID
Mrs. Aimee Lloyd Passes Numerous
Checks on Financial Institutions and
Merchants-People Marvel at lnear-
cination of Young Woman - Sup
posed to Have Had Unknown Ae-
complete.

Chadwick never cTedteu
commotion in cities of the east than
has Mrs. Aimee Lloyd in Rochester
due allowance being made, OF course
FOR the disparity in the relative held
of operations Of the two women.
Rochester is stirred from center to
circumference by the whirlwind recoru
of Mrs. Lloyd, who had been here only
a few hours when she entered upon q
campaign of apparent swindling OF the
oldest and strongest financial anu
mercantile institutions OF the el.!'
Now she Is in jail and says she wiz
not ask for bail.
81 didn't Intend to defraud any
body; if anybody didn't want to take
my check they didn't have to-, she
said in reply to the question, why
did you do it?" when my husband
comes he will fix it all right" she
added
But don't you consider it a for
gery?" she was asked
IT had a right" she rejoined, TO
use my husbands name by reason OF
a power Of attorney from him. l VIII
not say now why 1 used the name of
my sister, Mrs. Stern. This jail is a
pretty gloomy place, but I intend to
make the best of an unpleasant situa-
ton and have no doubt that the trou-
BILE will be settled in a few days"
No Funds in Banks.
The checks which Mrs. Lloyd sue
ceeded in passing upon business men
were either drawn upon national banks
in Chicago or Newport and signed in
each case, ST. A. Lloyd" who is sup
posed to be her husband. or Mrs. D.
S. Stern" her sister, who resides in
Chicago. kilograms sent to these banks
brought the reply that neither had
funds subject to the check Of the per-
sons concerned.
Six or seven business men are back
of the prosecution of Mrs. Lloyd and
accuse her Of swindling by means Of
forged checks. At the Union National
bank, where the cashier was an old
time friend, she succeeded in cashing
a check for $780, She duplicated this
feat at the First National, but the
cashier there became suspicious when
two merchants presented similar
checks for 500 each, and made her
refund the money Other amounts
which she is shown to have obtained
are as follows: Massey & Co., dry
goods, SIS; Mckay & Co., dry goods,
$40; Weber & Heintz, $50; Knowlton
Co., dry goods, $50; E. L. Lyman, la
dies furnishings, SIS; M. Kitzman,
gentlemen's furnishings, s35.
Massey & Co. and Mckay 81 Co. We're
soon made wise to the situation and
to get their money back. but
$3.50 is still unaccounted for, Mrs Lloyd
having but Sc in cash when searched
at the, Jail.
Has She a Confederate?
This has given ground for the belief
that the woman has confederate and
this is strengthened by the fact that
she was seen with man, stranger,
shortly before she began her rounds Of
the business places. 1t is thought this
confederate left town at the first OPP
portunity and took the money with
him.
Since her incarceration Mrs Lloyd
has been telegraphing her husband,
who, it seems, has no well fixed place
VI cdOOuS cIuO lbs DcGA IOllOWlIlS ll0
races. Dispatches reading Come to
me, am in trouble" we're sent to Chi
cago, Cleveland, Pittsburg, and other
eastern cities. Finally a reply signed
''F'' and saying "Will try to help you;
do not talk" was received from Cleve-
land. The woman declares the some
what mysterious Mr.. Lloyd will be here
on Monday at the latest and that soon
after the ends of justice will be sat
isf1ed and she will be released from
Jail.
Mrs. Lloyd as Miss Aimee Sickle was
reared in this city and is remarkably
handsome and dashing woman. D. s.
Stern, her brotherin-law, is clothing
in Chicago and for years was
in business in this city. The Sickles
and Stems were popular society people
and the preparations were being made
to entertain Mrs. Lloyd with receptions
and parties when the surprising de-
came.