Evening star., 1907-08-15
Charge Of Forgery.

Charles Johnson colored about twenty
two years of age, who says he came to this
city several days ago from Providence r.
l., was charged In the Police Court today
with forgery. After hearing the evidence of
several who had said they had accepted
bad checks from the accused. Justice Cation
referred the case to the grand jury for con-
SlderatiOn.
-Four checks on the First National Bank
OF this city, gned Smoot Il Co. and made
payable to Charles Mason, and one check
on the same bank for 81. made payable to
James Martin and signed Mutual Ice Com
pany, were offered as evidence against the
defendant. All of the checks with the ex-
ception of one drawn on SmoOt & Co were
for s. EACH and the fourth one was for S4
MI. j. Harry Rice produced one of the
checks, which he said he had accepted from
johnson.
The defendant stated that the checks
were given him by white man named Nes-
DIT of Boston. The arrest of johnson was
made by Chief Goods. Mr. Albert Smoot
of the firm of Smoot & Co. pronounced the
checks worthless, and also stated that the
signature was very poor imitation. as did
MI. Reardon, representative of the Mu-
tual Ice Company.
When taken in custody Johnson had in
his possession pocketbook marked m. L.
Agnew," which contained S597 with a
number of pawn tickets which had been IS
sued by Richmond pawn shop
Dog Wagon Reappears.
The official dog wagon is again on the
streets 1t made It's appearance lute YES
terday afternoon and as a result eight
| carcerated in the yard of the city jail await
ing to be knocked in the head with a base
ball bat by the official dog dispatcher The
wagon was also out this morning making
a detour of the extreme southwestern Sec
tion of the city, where many dogs roam the
streets by day and night, and in the ma
1ority Of instances their owners can never
be found. Those IN charge OF the wagon an
nounced today that the visit to the section
lii question was highly successful, as more
than dozen dogs had been captured.
Those who operated the wagon on It's first
appearance have deserted their post, and
the city officials were compelled to secure
three comparatively new men for the work
One of the men relinquished his position, it
Is stated, because he claimed that he had
too many friends who owned dogs and he
did not desire to make them his enemies
as he declared he would do In the event
ne captured dogs belonging to them. The
men in charge of the wagon. however
are already displaying proficiency and it is
predicted that within comparatively short
time they will outrival their predecessors
in many respects. The men take a pride in
their work and propose to allow no un-
muzzled canine to escape. 1t frequently
Is a very difficult task to capture the dogs,
| and in the majority of instances requires
no little amount of sprinting to get the off,
cial net about dogs head. Upon accom-
plishing the latter feat an assistant grabs
hold of the legs of the dog and the animal
Is soon in the wagon and on It's Way to
execution
Interment of Remains.
The remains of William E. Faulconer.
! who died at the Alexandria Hospital about
! $50 o'clock last evening, were forwarded
at III o'clock this morning to his home.
| Yorkville, s. c., where the interment will
| be made. The funeral will probably occur
Saturday.
| Mr. Faulconer was twenty-nine years of
age and was unmarried. He came to this
| city several years ago from Charlottesville
Va Mr F'aulconer was a nephew of Mrs.
| Henry F. Robertson of this city. He made
! a large number of friends during his resi-
| dence in this city, all of whom We're sur
| prised TO learn of his death The deceased
I had been Ill about three weeks.
| Funeral services over the remains of Will
| liam n Greenwell, whose death occurred
| Tuesday evening last at his home, 400 North
| Washington street, viii be held at ST.
Mary's Catholic Church at 9 O'Clock tonor-
| row morning. The interment will be in st.
| Mary's cemetery.
| The remains of Dennis McCarty Ramsay,
| who died yesterday at his home, Arcola,
| Ioudoun county, Va, will be brought here
| at 1:48 o'clock tomorrow afternoon and
buried in the Presbyterian cemetery. Mr..