The morning journal-courier., 1908-07-24
AFTER FOUR YEARS
Field Brought Here Yesterday to Answer to Big For
 gery Counts.
PAL HAS SERVED TIME
Charged With Forging Three Firm Names for Total of About
 S1,200 in 1904.

Four years after the offense for which he is arrested was committed. according to the charges, and after his pal has served and completed term of three years In state prison for par ticipatlon In the same, William .J. Field, alas William Field Gillespie, was brought back from Newark, N. J., yes- terday afternoon by Detective Sergeant Dennehy to face the charge of forgery In court in this city Sergeant Denne- hy has been on the watch for the man who has been serving q sentence in New York, and about month ago he His sentence did not, expire until this autumn and the sergeant understood that Field would not be released until the fall. Through good behavior, how ever, his term was shortened and a couple of weeks ago he was freed from the New York prison, Sergeant Denne- hy learning of this went after him Wednesday and yesterday succeeded in locating him in Newark and as he waived extradition brought him right back with him to this city yesterday afternoon.
 The crime with which Field is charg- ed Is forgery and although on the warrant on which he was arrested there Is but one count there will be three presented against him in court The one contained in the warrant all leges that on May 2, 1904 Field and Walcott Bulkeley, who claims he Is a Yale graduate, lawyer and first cousin of Senator Bulkeley and whc has served three years here, presented or had presented forged check fol $S96,S5 in the name of R. B. Bradley the Grand avenue hardware dealer now the walsh company. The othei two counts which are not yet on the warrant are also forgery charges 1T which 1t Is claimed that the names oI Hodge Brothers of Broadway and ol Pagter, the Broadway clothler ant outntter, were forged. The total of tht three checks, 1t Is claimed, was nearly s120O.
 The story of the game Is an inter estlng one. IL appears that through th' aid of a couple of boys the firm SC cured q supply of paints from Brad ley's store for which the boy paid cash The proviso was made that if any O the paints were not used the rlgh would exist of returning the muse, part and receiving money back. Thi was done and small part of the con signment was returned with the bo. and he bore note asking that checl be made out in the firms nape for tn money to be refunded which was done The note was worded in a polite busl ness tone apd did not create any sus plcions. The check. 1t is alleged wa never cashed. Instead the signature ol 1 1t was used as a copy to forge tn large check for s396. When this wa presented for payment by one of tn messenger boys whom the men use the bank became suspicious and toll the boy to tell the men to come them selves Heedlng the danger sigma they left the city. It seems, howevel that they succeeded in getting check on other houses by bank and gettin the remainder of the money in cas- before leaving The two men in thei paint dealings represented that the
 were a firm, fictitious 1t has since bee learned known as Essler Brothers c
 West Haven, and that they had con tract to paint the White City
 Bulkeley was sentenced to thre
 years for the offense. Field escape
 from here but was arrested in Ne