The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-11-22
q. g. Buchanan, White, and
William Carter, Colored,
Placed Under Arrest.
DupED HARDWARE FIRMS
Charged With Having Passed
Worthless Orders on Many
Richmond Concerns.

BY clever piece of work. Acting
Detective Mel. Folkes yesterday after
noon succeeded in capturing q. G..
Buchanan. a white man, and william
Carter, negro, charged with operating
bunco game with regularity and sue
cess until they unsuspectingly walked
into the clutches of the officer.
1t is alleged that Buchanan. being
of an inventive turn of mind, and be-
ing without money, conceived the idea
of making hardware houses pay for
whiskey which he was buying in great
quantities and dispensing with lavish
hand. Accordingly ne purchased an
order book such as Is commonly USED
In ordering goods by the retail firms.
and with the aid of his colored con-
federate. succeeded. 1t is charged, III
duping various wholesale concerns out
Of considerable amount OF goods:
Thus far officer Folkes has recovered
The book from which the orders We're
written and five of the orders them
selves, all signed with the name or
Kennedy Brothers & ksllam, OF NO. .
East Broad Street. Forty-eight leaves
are missing from the book. but the
stubs are blank. The police are dis
posed to think that Buchanan has got
ten something for at least the majority
of these missing pages.
Orders Found.
There are two orders on Watkins
Cottrell Company. one for one nal t
dozen Gillette razors and one .5s-cali-
bre liver johnson hammerless revoiVer
and one for one-half thousand .as-cal :
tbre, centre-fire cartridges, and one
L32-calibre revolver; one on flarris-
Flippen & Co. for two liver Johnson
Ihanmerless revolvers and one VIII
hammer: one on the Virginia-Carollna
Hardware Company for two lNer .lohn-
70 and a. Ii. s(,lafE
s. Son Hardware Company for two Gil
let;e ra2orS.
The negro, William Carter, was seer
yesterday to pawn an oyercoat ant
Shs the ne Prisnsss fnS company
the afternoon the suspicious of De-
tective Folkes were arolsed. and th'
man was arrested. Interrogation o.
the negro led to the arrest of his al
legged fellow-worker:
Late last night two pistols which
had been pawned at Steiner's and ia
cob's and an overcoat and plsto! iron
Weinsteins We're recovered. y Is sup
posed that the overcoat. which is ;
new one from Sheprard's, OH Broa'
Street, was obtained In the same way
The orders bear various dates from
November 10th to the e1st. and beneath
the signatures of Kennedy Bros. 4
Kellam on all but one. are signe'
initials, different in each case.
When seen last night Buchanan re
fused to say ANYTHING whatever abou
his troubles. The negro declared tina
Ire had nassed only three IF the order
I and that as far as he knew thew Wer
all right. The police are certain tina
at least one other man is imnlicate
in the case. Buchanan II Is charged
bought whisFey for several young ne
groes who for the time served nd
mirably as his agents. TIL" police eS
meet to be delugea day with let
ters from the holders of the forty
three other orders.
1t was stated last night that youn
buchanan, who is about twentv-fiv
Years of age. was adopted when seven
teen months old nv Mr.. a"d Mr.,
Buchanan, and assured th'ir nam'
His own real name II saia to b
George G. Gibson. and he Is we'll con
nacied in Richmond