Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-19
YOUNG LAWYER
CHARGED WITH
FORGING NOTES
ACCUSED OF FORGING PAPER
AGGREGATING $4,000
is SON OF LATE CAPITALIST AND
GOVERNORS NEPHEW
Second Arrest for Giving of Alleged
Worthless Drafts In Return for
Money-FolIowed Prlm-
rose Path
DIANE TAYLOR, 20 years of age.

DLAINE TAYLOR, 2e years of age,
n an attorney at law with offices
= in the Stimson building. son Of
the late T. B. Taylor, a capitalist who
died in Los Angeles in August, 1908,
and nephew of former Governor Sam
uel r. Van SAINT of Minnesota, was ar
rested in a Spring street cigar store
last night and placed in the city Jail
on charges of having passed fictitious
checks and forged others to the
amount of nearly $1,000. The arrest
was made by Patroman John Rock
off for Detectives Murray and Nc
Cam.
The arrest last night was the second
time young Taylor's alleged penchant
for giving worthless bank drafts in
return for good money had got him
into trouble the young man having
been arrested for the same offence last
January. At that time wealthy rela-
tives came to his rescue and made good
the checks he had passed and the
complaints against him were dis
missed.
Son of Iowa Capitalist
Taylor is the son of an Iowa and
Louisiana capitalist who came to Cali
fornia with his family four wears ago.
thousand acres of rich rice lands in
Louisiana and sections of farming
lands in Iowa. The family first set
tied in San Diego, but soon after came
to Los Angeles, where the elder Tay-
lor invested heavily in real estate in
the southern part of the city, lying
between Moneta avenue and Figueroa
street.
When the elder Taylor died last year
Miss Olive Taylor, a daughter. now
employed as a school teacher in YER
non, was made executrix of the estate
with the viii annexed and has had the
management of it since, 1t never hav-
ing been distributed.
Shortly after his fathers death
Blaine Taylor entered upon a tour of
the primrose path and gambling,
drinking and fast company soon
claimed him for their own. He used
whta money he could get hold of from
the estate, according to the police, and
when this source of income was cut off
by the refusal of his sister to give
him more money he began issuing bad
checks, it is said.
Takes Up Law Practice
number of these turning up, Miss
Taylor and Robert r. Hawley, an in
surance man. with officers in the Stim-
son block. who acted as adviser for
Miss Taylor. took them up. In Janu-
airy, when young Taylor was arrested,
they again came to his rescue and for
some weeks he settled down to the
practice of law, and it was not until
month ago, according to statements
drinking again. and exiting" checks, it
is said with no money in the Broad
way Bank and Trust company on
which they were drawn, to meet them.
Check after check drawn by him was
taken up by Hawley until the estato
had been drained of cash money until
only $500 remains of a $4,000 balances,
and Hawley himself had gone into his
pocket for nearly $500 to help pay the
young mans debts
With both his resources and that of
the estate drained of cash to meet these
checks, Hawley last Saturday reported
the matter to the police and asked for
Taylor's arrest. Since that time de-
tectives have been searching for him.
but hidden away in the Metropolitan
baths he Kept out of their way until
yesterday, when he went to a South
Spring street cigar stand, where in
back room he played cards until he was
arrested last night by Patrolman
Rockoff.
Checks Said to Be ForeerIes
or the large number of checks which
he passed nearly one-half of them are
said by the police to be forgeries, the
names OF Wen KNOWN business ana pro-
fessonal men being signed to them.
They were passed on saloon keepers. IN
cafes, at cigar stands, and, according
to Taylor himself nearly all for
gambling debts. He denies, however,
that the amount of money he has OBJ
tanned in that manner is anything like
the sum charged, and states that $50
to 500 will cover the entire amount.
Felony complaints will be issued
against him this morning in police
court at the instigation of Hawley and
it is probable that a number of his al
legged victims also will swear to COM
plaints against him.