Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-18
DETECTED TOO LATE
Money Paid to SWindIer on
Forged Check.
POLICE EXPECT TO GET HIM
Fourteenth Street Savings Bank
Loses $1,260.
TWO OF BAND CAPTURED
Had Obtained $3.50 From Union
Trust Company on Stolen
POLICE EXPECT TO GET HIM
.Wo OF BAND CAPTURED

Bank swindlers had an inning in Wash
ington yesterday and today and by de-
ceiving the tellers Of two banks they OBJ
tanned Sl.4Jo The larger operation OF
the two was at the expense OF the Four
teenth Street Savings Bank, 18th and u
streets northwest. where a forged check
for ST. 20 was cashed. The smaller trans
action was at the Union Trust Company,
18th and ii streets. where three stolen
travellers checks for $50 each were ex-
changed for an equal amount of real
money.
As a result of this activity of the
thieves brigade, lookout messages were
sent all over the country this afternoon
by Maj Sylvester. asking that Richard
Miller. thirty-One years old. be arrested
for forgery. Miller obtained the $3.50
at the 14th street bank. For the job at
the Union Trust Company the police ar
rested David Simon, alias Cohen. alias
"sheeney Dave" alias Moses Simon. and
Morris Robinson. This pair is also gus
pected of having stolen $42 from the
pockets of Joseph p. Wilson of Land
over Md. Tt is also thought they were
members of the gang OF which Miller was
the leader.
Miller appeared at the 14th street
bank at IL o'clock this morning and
ing that 1t he cashed. The teller. John
F. Cook. looked the paper over and
found that 1T had been made. payable
to A. Marx. and over the ratters In
dorsement appeared the name of Fran
els A. Blundon. with an apparent
20 X in the 1atter's handwriting. 1t
was largely due to the close Imitation
of this idiOsyncrasy OF Mr.. blundons
lie hat Ia md
There was no hesitation in paying the
cash. and the man who represented
himself as "A. MARY took the money
and promptly disappeared.
The Forgery Detected.
Almost on the instant that he stepped
out of the door the men behind the
counter discovered the forgery and they
hurried into the street to find the man.
The police were notified. and men on
motorcycles were sent racing through
nearby streets. but the man had made
his escape. The bank employees subse-
uuently visited police headquarters and
identified a photograph of Miller in the
rogues' gallery as likeness of the man
who obtained the money. Detectives
were dispatched to the Union station and
20 the terminals of all interurban trolley
lines and 10 the steamboat wharves, and
the additiona! precaution was taken to
ask Baltimore officials TO watch all in
coming trains.
why don't you require an identifica-
ton when such sums are to be paid
Mai. Sylvester asked the president Of the
bank.
I'VE usually do" was his response.
s'but this time guess we didn't"
Il can't promise to get the money,
MAI sylvester said, but I will promise
to get the man..
"The money is what we most want"
said the president of the institution. "out
We also want the man..
He explained that the bank had been
doing business about four years. and to-
days transaction Is the first loss II mas
sustained. Descriptions of Miller. alias
Marx were sent broadcast this after
noon. He is described as having fair
complexion. chestnut hair and small,
.slisht mustache and goatee He is sisht.
~ stoep-shouldered. and has prominent
gold filling In his teeth.
Stolen Checks Presented.
The fraud at the Union Trust Company
was perpetrated yesterday afternoon,
when a stranger appeared with three
tfty-dollar travellers checks, made pay
able to a Chicago man named Griswold,
and obtained the cash for them. As the
man departed with the money one of the
members of the Burns & Sheridan detec-
tive agency. who recently succeeded the
Pinkertons in charge Of Tank work. hur-
ried to the tellers window and inquired
the nature of the business transacted by
the stranger, whom he claimed to identify
as crook.
Telexraphic communication with Chi
eago quickly established the fact that the
checks had been stolen, and then began
the search. which terminated shortly
after midnight I'm the arrest of Simon and
Robinson by Detectives Barbee. Vermil-
lion. Cox and Berman. The detectives
discovered that Miller was the third men,
Der of the gang. but lie could not be
found last night. and before the warning
could be circulated among the banks this
morning Miller had executed his bold
coup at the I4th Street Savings Bank and
made his getaway.
Miller was known as the husband OF
Mime. Marie. a clairvoyant at 10. 14t1
street northwest. Miller and his wife had
bees here only since last month. tic po-
:lice saw but they had obtained the ten
letters OF Endorsement necessary for the
wife TO get license TO conduct her buSi-
.ness.
!: So anxious were the detectives to ac-
:compIish the arrest Of Miller that they
tput a plant on his house all night. and
noon rsns S eeh house ns n %as n Tsted
.:end searched.
. The detectives found four walls to each
iroom but very little between them. the
EFFECTS of the MiIers having been re-
moved yesterday afternoon 1t was while
.&e4-tstsRetives were exerting themselves
to find Miller, il is charged, that the
rerf-Hpreared at the bank with the check
to which he had forged the name of
rra4cjs y. Blundon. and got the $l.2JO.
Simon, and Robinson Photographed.
Robinson and Simon were lodged last
night In the first precinct police station
and ,,were taken to police headquarters
this morning and photogra phed and meas
Ured for ihe rogues' gallery.
Simon gave his age as thirty-two years
hh 6GcnbAtion as salesman and his ao-
dress as 32220 State street Chicago. while
tffeoother registered as Morris Robinson.
thirty years old. DIDO Indiana avenue.
Chicago. giving his occupation as clerk.
According to the records In the criminal
identification bureau. the man known as
simon worked under the aliases of Sa IN
Hayes and Moses Cohen. In addition to
the aliases already given, and 1t was
shown that he has been arrested in all
sections of the country from Rochester
". Y. to New Orleans and st. Louis
He has served terms In prison. Robin
sons record. IL he has one, was not
found, and the only indication the police
could find Of his probable criminal ten
denotes was in his admission that he had
served time in Ohio. Simon was identi,
fded the man who cashed the sfoIer