The Somerset reporter., 1909-04-08
Forgery is Alleged.

years OF age, is detained at Somerset
Jail, awaiting hearing on charge of
forging the name of Roy L. Marston
of this place to several checks and
passing or attempting to pass the
same, the sum said to have been real
lied from these transactions as charg-
ed being about 800.
Hayes was employed by Mr.. Mars
ton as an axeman in his forestry sur
vey work during the summer of 1908,
in the Jackman and Dead River re-
gions. He worked for the Great
Northern Paper Company at Madison
the early part of the present winter
and later came here and was employ
ed by Mr.. Marston as a wood chopper
in the south part of this town. On
Wednesday of last week, Mr.. Mars
ton settled with him and gave him
his check for ss cents in payment of
the small balance then due, the set
Element taking place in Mr.. Mars
toms Office at his residence on Bap-
fist Hill. Hayes took this check at
once to the Second National Bank
and is supposed, in cashing it, to have
taken the opportunity to help himself
to bundle of blank checks from the
customers desk. Hayes had been
passing some time at the home of Pc
ter Pumlow. He left there in the
late afternoon or evening of the day
above mentioned and it is charged
that he took with him suit and over
coat not his own. He seems to have
gone to Madison that evening and, in
settling his bill at the Weston House,
on the morning of April LIST, he ten
dered a check for FIVE dollars bearing
Mr.. Marston's signature but alleged
TO have been The check w.
accepted and Il received from
the clerk difference OF four dollars
in change.
While in Madison it is stated that
Hayes forged another check for S35
with Mr.. Marston's name and enclos-
ed same in registered letter, ad-
dressed to himself at Jackman. The
story runs that this letter bore Mr..
Marston's business imprint and, if so,
must have been taken without con-
sent from Mr.. Marston's office. The
story further runs that, after attempt
ing to pass further forged paper, ON
Charles Davis of Greenyille, Hayes
turned up at Jackman, and called for
his registered letter at the postoffice.
This seems, very naturally, to have
been delivered to him, and it is said
that the check, mentioned above as
being enclosed by Hayes at Madison,
WAS cashed by Miss Grace Newton,
the postmistress. Further reports of
similar nature come from Jackman
merchants, to whom it is said Hayes
offered more forged paper, and the
scene Is then transferred to Bangor,
where he was arrested by the chief OF
police on direction from Sheriff John
A. Mooers.
The incident above mentioned, as
to the sending of the registered letter,
by the respondent to himself at
Jackman, is one of the cleverest
plCCCb vi WoEh CF0I OOuo nCISdDOusb,
but Hayes did not see the full result
of it and it proved one of the best
clues in the case, when Sheriff
Mooers got to work on the matter.
The business card of Roy L. Marston
deceiving the postmistress at
Jackman, but it had a further effect
of causing the registry receipt to be
on m ado ont that altar HouaA haH
signed his name thereon, it was sent
back to Mr.. Marston at this place.
This card receipt, with Hayes name
affixed, was placed in Mr. Mooers'
hands and enabled him to locate the
respondent at Jackman very prompt
ly.
The arrest came about from the in
quiry Of pawn shop proprietor, Co.
hen by name, who telephoned here
to know if Roy l.. Marston was good
for $50. The Skowhegan bankers, of
whom Tho inquiry was made, had al
ready received the IS check, men
toned above as having been passed
at Madison, and their reply, while
satisfactory as far RS Mr.. Mars
toms credit was concerned, advised
the party at the Bangor end of the
wire that the check which occasioned
his inquiry was undoubtedly forged.
Sheriff Mooers went to Bangor,
Monday, and returned here with his
prisoner the same evening.
Hayes retained Edward N. Merrill
as his counsel and appeared in the
Skowhegan Municipal Court Tuesday
morning. The case was continued
until Saturday morning next, when
the hearing will occur.