Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-11-03
WOMAN PROVES
SHREWD sW|NDLER.
Alice Cheney Brown for a Worth
less Check Secured $4,000
Worth Of Bonds.
SHE WAS PUT UNDER ARREST
Finally Surrendered Securities, Put Up
4 Tale Of Woe About Stealing 70
Help an Unfortunate Brother.

Chicago. Nov. Swim S1V'ooo
bonds which she had obtained from tiie
f,rm of Babcock, Rushton & Louder
back, bond dealers in the fsooke's
building. woman known as Atlce
Cheney Brown. was arrested last night
at the Union depot and made 10 tee'ith
the securities.
She had a ticket for Denver and was
aboard the train waiting Tor It's 1e
parture when Detectice Frank hepe .,s
found her preparing to retite loi 'As
night. ,,,o,,-
Rcpelto's instructions from the proke
ers were not to detain the Wonlin u
she restored the $4,000 worth of bonos.
This she readily nssented TO ana slle
took them from a handbag on the seal
beside her The woman mad also
passed 81 worthless check for S6a on Tue
management OF the Congress Hotel
company. Detective Repelto, who Is
employed by the hotel company, had
this little score to settle with the Wo-
man, She made good the amount OF
the check and was allowed to go her
way.
HER METHODS.
The method by which the woman
obtained the bonds was by passing.
worthless check on the brokers fpf
slG,720 Soon after the TRANSACTION
Orville +. i3abcock one of the firm,
became suspicious of the genuinen .,s
of the check and telepraphed to the
Farmers Loan & Trust company Of
New York on which bank it was
drawn An answer was received that
the woman purportng to be Alice
Cheney Brown had no account with
the Farmers Loan & Trust
1t was known to the brokerage firm
that MIS-. Brown was staying at the
Annex, and messenger was sent
there 10 find her. At the hotel it was
learned that the woman had paid her
bill and left. She had paid with a
check on the Farmers Loan d trust
company and had ordered a carriage to
take her to the La Sale station.
Manager Southgate of the Annex eS.
amined the check passed on the hotel.
and inasmuch as the check on the bro
kerage firm was worthless he declared
that the smaller one was worthless
also.
Detective Repelto was called in and
with Nh Babcocll, went to the municl-
court where a warrant was sworn out
charging the woman with operating
confidence game.
The cabman who drove the woman
from the Annex was found and ne sa,a
she discharged him at the La Sale
street station. 1t was learned that a
woman answering the description OF
Mrs, Brown had engaged another cab
man and that he drove her to the
Northwestern depot. After discharg-
ing the second cabman she entered
third vehicle and was driven to the
Union depot.
In the baggagerooln it was discovered
that the woman had checked a suit case
to Denver, presenting her railroad tick
ct at the time. The Burlington train
for Denver did not leave Chicago until
1880 o'clock and Repelto waited in the
depot until shortly before the time for
its departure How the woman got
past him and aboard the train without
being seen is a mystery to the detec-5
tive. When questioned on that point
by Repelto she looked out of the car
window and laughed
PLEADED FOR LENIENCY.
At first she pleaded for leniency. ask
ing that she be permitted to pay the
MOTEL bill and continue on her trip to
Denver. The detective agreed to ac-
cept S63 for the hotel bill and she paid
him in cash. Then she turned over the
bonds. When she did so she told amid
sobs that she had planned to obtain
the bonds which she had hoped to sell
in Denver so she could get funds with
which to aid brother who is under
arrest in the east for some offense.
The securities We're turned over later
to Mr. Babcock. who was waiting for
Repelto at the Auditorium Annex. Mr..
Babcock said the firm would make no
offer to prosecute Mrs. Brown.
The bonds We're 20 in number. Of 81, 600
each. They are first mortgage 8 per
cent bonds OF the Madison River Power
company.
Mrs. Grown" went to the Annex last
Thursday. She registered as Mrs.
Frank e. Brown. New York" The day
following her arrival she called on
Babcock Rushton & Louderback with
letters. presumably forged, purporting
to be from a New York broker. Nego-
tiations were begun for the purchase Of
the bonds. but the deal was not closed
until yesterday.
1t was learned after the Denver train
had departed that Mrs. Brown got
through the station without being seen
by Repelto by d clever ruse. Outside
the station she SAW a tired woman
holding a baby and engaged her in con-
yersation. Without arousing the Wom-
ans suspicious she induced her to let
Mrs. Brown hold her baby and then ac-
company the child and its new friend to
the train. In passing through the de-
pot Mrs. Brown twas seemingly intent
on the child and as she was not sup
aDnsed II, have a baby naSSed llnuOticeU