The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-11-04
CAUGHT BEFORE
HER TRAIN LEFT
Woman Secures $4,000
Worth of Bonds by Means of
Forged Check.
BOND DEALER SUSPICIOUS
SECURITIES RETURNED AND
THE MATTER DROPPED.
BOND DEALER SUSPICIOUS

HE MA
Chicago, Nov. with $4,000 of
bonds which she had obtained from
tine firm Of Babcock, Ruchton & Lou
derback. bond dealers in the Rookery
building. a woman known as Alice
Cheney Brown. was arrested last night
at the Union depot and made to return
IT, securities.
She had a ticket for Denver and was
aboard the train waiting for its de-
parture when Detective Frank Repelto
found her preparing to retire for the
night.
Repeito's instructions from the
brokers were not TO detain the woman
If she restored the s20, 600 worth of
bonds. This she readily assented to,
and she took them from a handbag on
the seat beside her.
The woman had also passed a worth
less check for S63 on the management of
the Congress Hotel company. Detective
Repeito. who is employed by the hotel
company, had this little score to settle
with the woman. She made good the
amount Of the check and was allowed
10 go her way.
Became Suspicious.
The methods by which the woman OBJ
tanned the bonds was by passing a
worthless check on the brokers for
Slg72O. Soon after the transaction Or
VILE f. Babcock one of the firm. be-
came suspicious Of the genuineness of
the check and telegraphed to the Farm
ers' Loan & Trust company of New
erHTaf
answer was received that the woman
purporting to be Alice Cheney Brown
had no account with the Farmers Loan
& Trust.
II was known TO the brokerable firm
that Mrs. Brown was staying at the
Annex. and a 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 & Trust company and
had ordered a carriage to take her TO
the La Sale station.
Manager Southgate of the Annex ex-
amined the check passed on the hotel.
and inasmuch as the check on the
brokerage firm was worthless he de-
clared that the smaller one was worth
less also.
Detective Repelto was called in and
with Mr.. Babcock went to the NUM-
cipal court. where a warrant was
sworn out charging the woman with
operating confidence game.
Changed Cabmen.
The cabman who drove the woman
from the Annex was found and he said
she discharged, him at the La Sale
street station. 1t was learned thatla
woman answering the description of
Mrs. Brown had engaged another cab
man and that he drove her to the
Northwestern depot. After discharging
the second cabman she entered a third
vehicle and was driven to the Union
depot
In the baggage room it was discov-
cred that the woman had checked a
suit case to Denver. presenting her
railroad ticket at the time. The Bur
lngtOn train for Denver did not leave
Chicago until 1880 o'clock. and Repeito
waited in the depot until shortly be-
fore the time of its departure. How
the woman got past him and aboard
the train without being seen is a mys-
terry to the detective. When ques-
toned on that point by Repelto she
looked out of the car window and
laughed.
Reason for the Crime.
At first she pleaded for leniency. ask
ing that she be permitted to pay the
hotel bill and continue on her trip to
Denver. The detective agreed to accept
the s6S 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 ar
rest in the east for some Offense.
The securities were turned over later
10 Mr.. Babcock. who was waiting for
fepelto at the Auditorium Annex. Mr..
Sabcock said the firm would make no
effort to prosecute Mrs. Brown.
The bonds were twenty in number of
$1,000 each. They are first mortgage .
per cent bonds of the Madison River
3oTcr company.
Registered as "Mrs. Brown"
Mrs. Brown" went TO the annex last
thursday. She registered as Mrs.
frank Z Brown. New York" The day
.olowing her arrival she called on
.i2ocock. Rushton & Louderback with
ftters. presumably forged, purporting
% De from a New York broker. NegO-
Hauons were begun for the purchase
oI the bonds, but the deal was not
closed until yesterday.
II was learned after the Denver train
mad departed that Mrs. Brown got
through the station without being seen
Dy hepelto by clever ruse. Outside
we station she saw a tired woman
ntlang baby and engaged her in con-
1ersauon. Without arousing the wo-
man suspicious she induced her to let
1'S Brown hold her baby and then ac-
eompanied the child and It's new friend
20 the train. In passing through the
uepot Mrs. Brown was seemingly intent
on me child. and as she was not sup
noticed