Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-05-13
DOCTOR JAILED;
WIFE IN TEARS
F. c. S. SAUNDERS ARRESTED
ON F0RGEHY CHARGE
RUDOLPH SPRECkELS CHECK
FIGURES IN DOWNFALL
Physician Says He Can Explain Accu.
sation satisfaetoriIy--Mean
Spouse Weeps at Home
of Friends
CONTINUED from rage One,

SContinued from rage Onel
securities to the First National bank
at Sierra Madre. He saw architects
and builders and took to the bank a
check for $1,000 purporting to be signed
Dy Rudolph Spreckels, and one for
S4oo signed by G. ]. Bragg. These he
showed as security on a draft on a
bank in Calcutta, linda.
The Sierra Madre bank would not
cash the checks, so he brought them
10 me and got $3.50 from me. which
ne deposited in the bank. Then Saun-
uers drew $500 and made his first pay
ment on the sanitarium property. Aft
erWard 1t was found that he ahd
Mlthdrawn the remaining $3.50. The
Spreckels check was not honored.
STOCK company was formed.
Pratt was promoter and was to sell
STOCK. saunders tried to cash a check
ior 5000 through the Ocean Park bank,
put 1t was returned to the Sierra
Madre bank Another check for $50
was not honored. Today he tried to
cash two checks, Nos. 10 and 20. for
70 each. One was on the bank at
Nadeau, Cal, and the other on a man
named Bailey"
At the county jail, when DR.. Saun-
ders was seen after his arrest he was
not over-communicative. The only
statement he would make was:
L am surprised at my arrest. So
far as the Ocean Park bank check is
concerned, 1 telephoned to them and
was led to believe by their answer
that | would be allowed to overdraw
as much as $3.50. 1t was for this rea-
son that l drew the 5000 check"
Had SpreckeIs Check
How about that Spreckels check?
They say that is a forgery, too. What
Is there in explanation of that charge ?"
he was asked
That check was sent to me by a
friend and l presumed it was all right.
That is all l have to say"
But the check is said to have been
made out by you. Surely you must
nave known whether or not Mr..
Spreckels had made out such check
in your favor in bona fide TRANSACT
tion.'
i have nothing more to say" said
the prisoner, and he lapsed into a
silence that could not be broken.
At the refuge offered her by her
friends, Mrs. Saunders was seen last
evening. That she was suffering from
the shock of her husbands arrest was
apparent, although she was courteous
and gave no signs of breakdown.
a heavy medallion set in gold suspend
ed from chain about her neck. she
stlll showed by the fearsome express
sion of her eyes and the nervous move
ment of her hands something of the
strain to which she was being SUBJ
jected. When the first charge against
her husband --as explained to her, she
said hurrtedly, and with a glad light
in her eyes:
"That could not be. Don't you see?
Such charge could not be. That
check was in escrow. Not one cent
was to be drawn against ii. 1t was
paid in there for shares or something
like that. l know so little of my hus-
bands business"
Then came the explanation about
the other charge and the new light
died away. The hands went down into
her lap with a pitiful twist, while all
the time there was an earnest effort
still to be courteous and not to give
way.
MY husband has been in bad health
for long time. He has not been
able to sleep for ten days, l can as
sure you. l shall do what / can for
him. 1 believe-really l do-that he
is not quite right in his head; that he
is not mentally sound. AS soon as
possible l shall have him seen by ply
sicians. This whole thing came to me
as great shock. / had no idea of
any such trouble.
"One should see money for such
things as these checks if he has been
cashing them" she added with an
other ray of hope in her eyes. II have
seen no money passed. I cannot i'm
agine where this money that he is said
to have received has gone"
Hasn't he provided for you and for
his child?" size was asked.
"He hasn't provided for us for a
long time" was the sorrowful answer.
II suppose he will have to have ball.
But we have been here so short a time
and have so few friends. l will do
all I can for him. 1 cannot tell how
much that E-ill be-"
She said that her husband had prac-
ticed medicine in Globe, Ariz., and that
recently they had wandered about Ari-
constructing mostly"-and had
visited various places. DIR. Saunders
and his wife are English and evidently
are persons of culture and refinement.