The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-07-14
BUASDENBURC IN JAIL AGAIN
BI G0I HRITINE '0HR'DE 70
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Brusshtpn Bransi-nburs. wh" has at
t,ins'i notpriety buth On account q -
Nrtunxz and his family aFair-. ~as hcssd
up VA ths t.az' I~suty second street
station yesterday aft-rnoon charged With
I passing a ~nrthl--- check for go Mons
/ 20 his family past OF present.. - con
Cerned IN the arrest this tirl" Brandon
burg IL listed a. ~ years Did. married. and
a writer he said he had ~ home
/ The complainant ~ Hugh Logan.
Jr. newspaper man and magazine
~riter. Sho lives at u, West Twenty
second street lie net RrAndrnburS
! about siN months ago He considered
BrAndenburg TO bs n brilliant man Who
had suffered a great deal perhaps I'm
Justly Both wrote for magazines and
Mr. Logan's sympathy soon grew tn
friendship
Last Saturday Brandenburg called MIR
Logan ON the telephone and told him he
had some good news and wanted Co meet
him somewhe,e They met in res
taurant on Third avenue and Branden-
burg told his friend that he had just closed
a deal with Doubleday. Page A Go. lie
also said that p p Steger. the editor OF
Snort Stories. had Just agreed To Accept
a SERIES Of detective stories from him
and had told him he could have a drawing
account OF $50 a week at Mr.. Steger's
Office
He had hated 10 admit his necessity.
BrandenburR said. hut then and there
he had asked Steger for a small loan.
The cashiers Office was closed. hut Steger.
who. he said. was very favorably inn
pressed with the story he had shown him.
entitled The Mystery Of the Wrinkled
Face. bad given him his personal check
for $50.
Mr., Logan was 80 overcome with his
friends sudden good fortune that ne did
not think il suspicious when Branden-
burg asked him To cash the check for him.
He went right down tn the Press Club
and introduced Brandenburg to John A.
Reilly. who has "A cafe in the basement.
Reilly cashed the check.
When Reilly called him up Tues day
TO tell him that the check had come hack
from the Fifth National BANK. on which
II was drawn. with a note saying that
MIR. Steger had no account there. Logan
suddenly remembered that Rrandenburg
was as well acquainted in the locality
as he was and that there was no reason
why he should not have cashed the check
himself
He started out 10 look for Brandenburg
He met him yesterday afternoon. Bran
denburE told hum that he thought that
Steger had acted queerly when he gave
him the check. His head was cut and he
Appeared To he da1ed. Brandenburg told
him. However. he gould hustle around
and see him and fix things up Logan was
not To worry Steger had SIMPLY pulled
out the wrong check book. IL worst
came to worst Brandenburg would make
.A Vhsa atassA
To one place, where he tried 10 borrow the
SO. hut could not get IL. Then Logan |
a greed To meet BrandenburS az 3 o'clock. |
After he left Brandenburg. however.
he decided that IL would he well to see J
Stsger. lie found him in his Office at |
1873 East sixteenth street StegeT told 1
him. he says. that he had never seen
until saturday when the
writer brought in The Mystery Of the
Wrinkled Face. He thought u was a
good story and told Brandenburg so
There was no talk OF money. nor did he
advance Rrandenb,Irg anything. he said
He showed Logan his signature. IL was
not like the signature Of =. p. Steger on
the check.
while they were talking Brandenburg
was announced. Logan whose sympathy
had been ooztng away. telephoned for a
policeman and then went out to Sc the
writer. Brandenburg told him that he
had been hard pressed for money and had
been deceiving his wife about his cir
The check had seemedHhis
only hope. Steger tried TO act as peace
maker. but Logan was decided. He
would have Brandenburg locked up. so
when Policeman Britt arrived Dranden-
burg was turned over Co him.
He was taken TO Police Headquarters
~ the police thought they had HE picture
and measurements there and wanted to
AXE some new ones They found. how
'Ver. that both picture and measure
Dents had been removed soon after
was acquitted Of the charge
4 obtaining sSO from the New York
Times for AN article purporting to have
Deen written 10y Grover Cleveland; 50 he
was sent back Ia the station house