Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-29
TAYLOR BOYS WOULD HAVE
:. BEEN IN TROUBLE BEFORE
THIS, OTHERWISE.
sHAMEFuLLY souANpER MONEY
LEFT LESS THAN A YEAR AGO
Further Details Regarding "Hish Fly.
ing" Of Blaine Taylor, Now Facing
Charge of Forgery, at Los Angeles
Sisters Arc Teaching school-Have
Paid Many Of Brothers Debts.
pecial to Times-Republican

Special to Times Republican.
Hampton, May cs.-Further particu-
lars concerning the operations of
Blaine Taylor, who is facing a charge
of forgery at Los Angeles have reach
ed this city, and If the accounts are
true, they prove that while Taylor is
only &c years old, he knows something
of the gay world, and can spend good
money as fast as older sports. The ac-
count states:
Following three months of high liv-
ing in resorts where good fellows
meet and lights burn bright, expending
with lavish hand his portion of a rich
legacy left by his father, and dipping
deeply into cash beqquaathed to his
TWO sisters and younger brother, Blaine
Taylor. young attorney. was arrested
on a charge of passing worthless
checks. which he had drawn to MAIN
tain his dizzy pace after all his funds
we're gone" In the police station he is
said to have confessed shame facedly
admitted that his oldest sister, Miss
N'4iNS, wiz IS eSSCutTIS OF Ile estate
left by his father. T. B. Taylor, when
he died last August. had made good
thousands of dollars of debts which he
and his brother, Ralph, had contracted
since the death of the parent The
funds came from the intact estate,
which has never been distributed.
Young Taylor also admitted that
Robert f. Hawley. an insurance agent
with wnom Taylor has offices, holds
worthless paper amounting to about
$500, which he had issued and which
Hawley had cashed when the holders
Of it had presented it al the office for
payment. after il was dishonored else
where. Close friends of the family as
sert that Blaine and his brother
Ralph have practically gone thru with
the $4,000 of life insurance left by
their father, who died less than a year
ago. Their two sisters are said to have
made good most of the Indebtedness
of the boys so far. The two women are
teaching school. The will of the elder
TAYLOR provided that a third and
youngest brother should be educated
at Stanford University, but it is as
serted that the fund set apart for this
f'e4 PSSS o'Sc - 80 dSplStSd, lI<tI Inc
boy will likely have TO leave the in
stitution or depend upon his own eff
forts.
The accused young men claim that
the amount they have spent is only
about $4,000, but friends claim that
the amount is nearer $4,000. Only four
months ago Blaine was arrested on a
charge of forging check for sS5 and
he was saved from prosecution only by
the complainant refusing to push the
case against him. Usually when asked
for money the sister would advance il.
On one occasion he wrote a check for
$50 in the presence of his sister
against deposit she had made for
him. and mailed it to a person whom
he claimed TO owe IT, Later he went to
the person and claimed TO have made
mistake in the, amount. which was
really $50 He pocketed the difference
of $50 Hawley has also made good
some of his shortages, and the present
trouble is said TO have become public
when Taylor confessed to him his in
ability to longer reimburse Hawley for
money advanced.
Soon after the adjustment of the af-
fairs of the estate, the young men are
said to have taken to high flying Their
indugences included automobile rides,
cafe stunts, turkish baths, wine, won-
on and every pastime of the gay
world.