The San Francisco call., 1908-11-12
IDA {. MILLER is
HELD FOR FORGERY

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but the police have reason to believe
that 1t is in the hands of lawyer in
Visalia, and that it will become incum-
bent on the Misses Chatten to pay it
when it natures. AT any rate. the
Misses Chatten have charged UP the
note to experience.
SECOND NOTE SURRENDERED
Shortly after indorsing the $1,000
note Frances Chatten. according to her
statement to the police, was surprised
to learn that another note for $1,000,
bearing the signature of Ida L. Miller
and her Endorsement, was in circula-
tion. Miss Chatter summoned her at
torney, Judge Lamberson of Visalia,
who, under threats of prosecution,
forced Miss Miller to give up the note,
the Endorsement on which Frances
Chatter claimed to be a forgery. This
hardly had been forgotten by Frances
Chatten when she was notified by the
San Francisco national bank, last Sat
urday that a note for $500, signed by
Ida Miller, and bearing the indorse-
ment of Miss Chatten, was held by the
bank awaiting payment.
Frances Chatter went to the bank
and pronounced the Endorsement on the
note, which bore the date of July Is, a
forgery. This note had been given by
Blighton & Hall of the Bankers art
press TO the Zellerbach paper company
as security for merchandise 1t de-
veloped then that Brighton & Hall had
presented to the paper company two
notes for $500, signed by Ida e. Miller,
and lndorsed by Frances Chatten The
paper company had been asked to ad-
vance cash on one and apply the other
to the credit of Brighton & Halls ac-
count. The Zellerbach company de-
clined this proposition, but accepted
one of the notes as credit to the ac-
count Of Blighton & Hail. The paper
company. as a safeguard, communicated
with two banks in Visalia regarding
the financial standing of Frances Chat
ten and received reply that her in
dorsement was good for half million.
ACCUSED PLEADS AUTHORITY
When Miss Chatten repudiated the
Endorsement of the note held by the
San Francisco national bank she was
informed by Cashier Cohen of the Eel
lerbach company that another note with
similar Endorsement, presumably one
of the two originally presented to the
company, was in the hands of the
Pacific Coast paper company, a fact
that was confirmed by telephoning.
Upon this discovery Frances Chat
ten. laid the matter before Chief Of
Police Biggy, who assigned detectives
to the case. Satisfied that forgery
had been committed, the detectives ar
rested Ida Miller in her offices in the
Pacific building Wednesday afternoon.
At first she denied any knowledge of the
note transaction, but finally admitted
that she had signed Frances Chatten's
name as an indorser She insisted.
however, that Miss Chatten lad au-
thorized her to use her signature
The detectives continued the inves-
tigation yesterday and learned from
the Pacific Coast paper company that
Brighton & Hall had taken away the
second note for $500, promising to
collect it from Ida Miller, and that
was the last seen of it.
Meanwhile friends of Miss Miller
were endeavoring to have Miss Chat
ten abandon the prosecution of the ac-
cused woman, but this she refused to
do. Miss Chatten stated to the police
yesterday that she had not authorized
Miss Miller to sign her name to any
note or other document and that her
business relations with Miss Miller had
ceased shortly after she and her sister
Celeste had been induced to indorse
Mrs. Miller's note for $4,000 June last.
In all probability Miss Miller will be
formally charged by the police today,
unless her friends come to her rescue.
vorce career. 1t is said that the dio-
cesan authorities place little credence
in the story from Portland, Ore, that
Young was divorced there by his wife
as recently as May of this year. or that
he had been divorced in Santa Cruz
some years ago. The churchmen do not
cfn 1,,f lotsl
minds in the matter, believing that if
the reports were true they would have
heard of them before.
DIVORCED IN PORTLAND
The alleged matrimonial career of
Rev. Mr. Young is being exploited from
all points of the compass According
to a dispatch received from Portland.
Ore, yesterday, Rev. Payson Young
was divorced in that city May 8 of
this year. His wife, formerly Selma
NJ. Johnson of Cheyenne. Wyo, brought
the action on the ground of cruelty.
According to the report from Port
land the couple lived for a vbi1a q,