The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-04
ARREST IS MADE
POLICE BELIEVE THEY HAVE CAP
 TURED SWINDLER.
A. H. DaughtOn Positively Identified as Man Who Worked Bogus Check on Pawn Broker and
 Other Merchants.

Mobile. Aug )-The po- lice have at last captured the party whom 1t is believed is responsible for a number of bogus checks which have been passed on several different par ties in this city within the last week Five of these checks are already in the hands of the police and 1t is believed that there are others which are the work of R. H. Daughton. alias J. H. Dalton. the party now held at police headquarters.
 Special officers Murphy and Lacey have been at work on the case for more than a week and all police officers were notified to be on the lookout for the man answering the description of the party wanted. Friday afternoon offi- cers Bromley and Lincoln arrested Daughton near the old depot and it de- veloped that he was the party wanted by the detectives.
 Since his incarceration at the guard house Daughton has been seen by sev- eral of his victims and identified as the party who passed the 'phony checks" on them.
 Daughton has been positively identi- fled as .the party who worked" A. R. Levinson. the Royal Street pawn brok- er out of s6 watch several days ago, by giving Levinson worthless check for s10, promising to return the fol- lowing morning for the change, but failed to do so. The watch has been found in another pawn shop and the pawn ticket was found in Daughton's s pocket when arrested.
 Oscar Hewett, a St. Emanuel Street harness maker, Is another victim It Is said that Daughton went into Hew- ett's place of business and purchasing Il Sl5 set of harness rendered a $2o check signed by the Mobile Coca-Cola Bottling Works in payment. Hewett cashed the check and gave Daughton s in change, Daughton promising to return for the harness. The check when Hewett presented it for payment was pronounced a forgery.
 Another, of the worthless checks was passed upon A, l. Mangold at the cor ner of Eslava and Commerce Streets. Here Daughton purchased bale or nay and a sack of oats. rendering in pay ment a check for $6. He received $2 in change, and made off. promising to call later for the feed he had bought He failed to do SO. This check pur- ported to have been signed by the Mo- bile Ice Company.
 w. H. Monk. the Dauphin Street furniture dealer. was another or Daush- tons victims. Daughton walked into Monks establishment few days ago and bought a bed on the installment plan. offering in payment of the first s5 ilstallment a check for $s He re- ceived s3 in change, but did not trouble to carry off the bed. The check was supposed to have been given by the Cawthon Hotel
 The last of the bogus|checks to come into the hands of the police is one pur- porting to have been signed by Charles Schimpf This was passed on w. T.. Mcclure at SIS Dauphln Street. The aMount was $1O add the check was given as payment for stove, the price of which was $S. As in several, other cases, Daughton seems to have been after only the ready money, and after purchasing the stove never showed up to claim 1t.
 Three of the checks given are drawn on the City Bank and Trust Company while two others that are in the hands of the police are drawn on the People Bank. The name of the payee in each case is different, but the handwriting is identical in every instance
 The police are of the opinion that Daughton has confederate and Daughtons case did not come up III the Recorders Court this morning as the detectives asked 1t be postponed pending the arrest of his confederate