Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-08-15
CHARLIE RANDELL INDUCES HIM
TO ENDORSE STOLEN CHECK
u FOR 1877 81.
MERCHANTS BANK LOSES $50 BY
CASTING OTHER CHECK FOR
RANDELL. ,,sI
RANDELL ARRESTED - CHECKS
WERE STOLEN AT BILLINGS
@,. BY AN UNKNOWN.
FAIRY STORY BY RANDELL AS
AZ TO HOW HE CAME BY
THEM. aa-.

father after this" mournfully said
Street Commissioner McCrorie Fri
| day, when asked if he was handy with
| the pen. r., III 81
| Poor Hugh. 1t is enough to make
any man sick to get stuck for $137.61,
| just to accommodate a man whom he
has known for twenty years, and a
| great deal of sympathy is expressed
for him, the payment of such a sum
being a heavy draft upon a poor man.
| All this trouble came to McCrorie
through indorsing certificate of de-
posit of the First National bank of
Glendive for the above sum. 1t is not
often an astute policeman gets it put
on him by a crook, but it seems to
have happened this time and in this
way:
Hughie was saunter1ng up and down
the street dreaming of the tine when
| the council would appropriate several
thousand dollars for the street fund,
and how he would give us the best
streets of any town in the state, when
| Charlie Randell, an old timer in these
parts, and recently cook for Capt. I.
P. Baker, approached and asked if he
would identify him at the bank so that
he could get a piece of paper cashed.
Good naturally Hugh went with him
to the bank and said he had known
Randell many years, and that he
thought he was all right, and things
like that. ~
"Just indorse the certificate" said
the paying teller, and Hugh got busy,
and Randell left the bank with $127.-
81 in coin of the realm. r.@-%
4 Friday the First National received
word from the Glendive bank that
the certificate was n. e., payment hav.
ing been stopped on account of its
having been stolen, and that the sig.
!. nature was forgery. That's when
the sun went down for Hughie.
The Merchants State bank was also
a sufferer from the clever way in
which Randell presented another GER
\ tificate of the same kind for. $50, and
had it cashed just before he visited
the First National. Like reply came
from Glendive when this paper was
sent out for collection, which loss fell
on the bank.
t Now comes the romantic story of
how Randell came into possession of
the stolen certificates-that is, the
story that Randell tells: #
/ Randell, who had been arrested
when the letter came back from Glen
dive and McCrorie had met up with
him, says he had been relieved of
some money by a couple of fellows
who ran west down the N P track He
followed as far as the weather bureau,
but could See no trace of them, but
thinking they might try to catch a
! freight train he remained there till
7 daylight last Tuesday. Then a strang-
! er came ambling along the iron high
! way from the west and they fell into
conversation, and ..being both cooks ~
said he, I'VE naturally grew chummy,
and told him my sorrows. r. The
stranger said he had some money in
the shape of paper which he would
like to get cashed, but being unable
to speak anything but German, and
being stranger, he was afriad he
could not get any money on them, but
that If could manage the cashing, he
would make my losses good, We then
went into an empty box car and he
gave me a certificate for $50, which
got cashed at the Merchants bank
and took the money back to him at
the car.
He then said he had another certi-
f1cate, and that perhaps he had better
set that cashed, too. as he might have
trouble getting the money elsewhere.
This certificate was taken to the First
\ National bank, but they would not
take me for it without an indorser,
SO ] went out, and meeting McCrorie,
got him to indorse IT, and ] took the
money to the man, and that was the
last I saw of him. Z
When asked at the bank why the
imam himself did not come for the mon
ey. Randell said ne could not speak
English.
i The fact that Randell and the
stranger exchanged clothes makes the
sheriff confident that the deal was
done to disguise the other fellow and
let him out easier in case Of pursuit,
but as no one but Randell saw hins
and his description is rather mixed