Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-31
SAYS lie PASSED
ONLY ONE CHECK
TAYLOR DENIES HE SWlNDLED
OTHER HOTELS
DECLARES HAYWARD FORGERY
is HIS FIRST CRIME
Police Say Prisoner Is Wanted In
other Cities and That Hotel AS
ISOLATION offered $4,000 for
His Capture

Russell Sanders, alias George w.
TAYLOR VINO was arrested at san
Francisco several days ago charged
with passing fictitious check Tor 800
on Manager Harry c. Fryman OIL the
HAYWARD hotel of Los Angeles, was
brought back from the northern city
by Detective Zeigler and placed in the
city Jail midnight Saturday.
Sanders. or Taylor, as he is better
known. say the police, is alleged 10
he one of the most clever forgefs III
the United States, and for whose ar
rest the Hotel Mems association d
America is said to have offered re-
ward of $4,000. He is alleged TO nave
defrauded a number of hotels ny
means of passing forged cashler GER
tificates.
Sanders arrived in Los Angeles a
short time ago in company with man
named Booth and registered at Hotel
HAYWARD under the name of George
w. TAYLOR. Both men lived hlgh, ana
when thew decided to leave Los An
geles TAYLOR, or Sanders, paid the motel
bill by rendering the hotel manager d
cashiers check for $65 on the Pioneer
bank at Porterville, Cal. Later 1t was
learned that this paper was Valueless,
and Investigations resulted in the ar
rest of Sander, or Taylor, at San
Francisco. Later Booth was arrested
in the northern city, where he is be-
ing held pending the arrival of an Of
ficer from FL Paso, Texas, where ne
is said to have used the same method
as used by Taylor here.
When seen at the city Jail yester-
day Sanders declared he was not the
criminal he is accused of being, and
saws his first and only offense was
passing the check on the manager of
the Hayward hotel.
"I am a court stenographer," said
Sanders. 81 formerly was private sec
rotary to Judge A. p. Mccormick, one
of the three judges of the federal court
of appeals for the Louisiana and Texas
districts. My father is a prominent
judge and my brothers are well to do
persons.
Says He Worked for Newspaper
81 worked for morning paper at
San Antonio, Texas where | lived for
four months with my wife and four
children. The climate did not agree
with my family and my wife and chill
dren went to Waco to live with some
relatives, while l was to come west
and seek work.
1 accompanied Inen TO f1OuSlOUi
Texas, and bade them good by. There
1 met Booth and we came west to-
gether. We stopped at Ell Paso where
we remained a short time, and Booth
paid the hotel bill with a bad check.
We then came to Los Angeles. l was
on a spree most of the time and was
not responsible for what 1 was doing
| hardly remember anything about il
now. When 1 arrived here l had a
hundred dollars, but that soon was
spent, and when we left here l paid
the hotel bill the same as Booth had
done in Ell Paso.
81 have relatives in the east and
am sure they will advance me suffi-
cient money to cover the amount OF
the check, This is my first offense and
l believe the hotel manager will allow
me to settle the amount and allow me
to get out of this trouble.
81 am anxious to have this matter
settled and to get back to my wife
and children in Texas
Sanders denied making a confession
to detectives in the northern city and
declared he knew nothing about Il
Photographic method for reproducing
cashiers certificates
He expects his friends to come to his
assistance, and has engaged Attorney
George w. Pearson to defend him