The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-03-30
CASHED BOGUS CHECK
JESSE DAVIDSON CAUSES ARREST
OF A. G.. WATTS.


Just step inside, sir, right In here
that's it-now where's my fifty dol
larsT' And Jesse Davidson, a Com
merce street jeweler, after the court
eous SALVATION. shook a finger under
the nose of A. @. Watts who, Mr.. Dav.
idson claims, cashed a check In his
store last October for $50. Mr.. David
son says that the check was returned
as not good. and that the man seemed
to have disappeared.
MIR. Davidson say his wife is respon-
sible for helping him locate Watts.
They were coming out OF the Majestic
Theatre last night, when Mrs. David
son saw Watts coming up Commerce
street from the direction Of the union
station. She at once recognized him
as man who got her husband to cash
seo check for=-him last year. which
check was later sent back protested.
Mr.. Davidson accpsted White and
asked him into his store with the re-
marks already quoted. Watts was
very pleasant about 1t, the jeweler
says, but added that he was also pleas
ant the last day OF October, 1908, when
he got the money. Mr.. Davidson called
policeman and had Watts taken at
once to police headquarters where he
swore out warrant charging Watts
with getting money under false pre-
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as a felony.
In explaining the case to the police
Mr.. Davidson said ne had bought mer-
.chandise from Watts when the latter
traveller for Stirling and Company, of
Newark. N. j., and experienced no
trouble. He said he had also pvir-
chased merchandise from Watts when
the latter reprelnted the ElectroIetic
Art and Metals Company OF Trenton,
N. ]. The jeweler explained that on
October 81, 1908. Watts got him to
cash a check on the Fort Jefferson
Bank Of New York. for $50, but
when he sent the check on II was re-
turned with the statement that Watts
had no account at the time in the bank
Mr.. Davidson said Watts told him
when he accommodated him with the
money that he was still working for
Stirling and Company. After the Oh eek
was turned down, Mr.. Davidson says
he wrote to the firm who replied that
Watts had not been working for them
at the time of the TRANSACTION
A letter reached Watts in which Mr..
Davidson protested the matter; Mr..
Davidson says. and Watts replied that
Mr.. Davidson could draw on him
through a Memphis concern for the
amount. This draft was alse unhon-
ored.
Last night in the police station.
Watts, who is a very nice look ing man,
well dressed and with a pleasing man
ner, said he could explain 1t all. He
even produced a letter which showed
that a month ago he was working for
the Stirling concern, but the fact that
Mr.. Davidson said his drafts had been
twice dishonored, and that Watts
had been denied by the Stirling Poo
pie as an employee at the time he said
he worked for them, was too much for
Police Captain Miles Smith. The off,
cial said that TO allow Watts to settle
the case. as Watts wanted to do, after
the matter had been enered on the
docket, would be compromising a feI.
ony, and so Watts was lack ed up.
Mr.. Davidson say he had another ex-
perience the thirty-frst day of last
October. A man came In and bought
$500 worth of Jewelry. and gave a
check for 1t on the Farley National
Bank, which check was turned down. |
This same man bought a lot Of clothes
from a local clothing concern, and the
check for that was also dishonored, the
man presenting the check later being
arrested and being found guilty In po.
lice court. |
The incident of last night will be
aired in police court this evening.