The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-04-07
SOLDIER Of FORTUNE
WAS A HIGH FLYER
IT WAS ALL FOOLS DAY, TOO.
IN KANSAS CITY TOWN-He
FOOLED THEM ALL.

trained banker said the c.erk when
a check came in for sl20.2S signed
presumably by f. b. Luke. We'll
investigate before We pay" And
they did investigate and did not
pay.
Mr.. Lukes name was forged to 4
number of checks. Some came in
to the First National bank last Mon
day and each day since that checks
have been coming. On Tuesday three
checks came aggregating $217 and
yesterday checks came, one for $50,
one for $40, another for $40, small
one for SIS and still another for SIC.
The signature looked very much like
the signature of f. B. Luke the
well known music dealer of this
city, but they were not quite smooth
enough to pass over the scrutiny of
the trained banker and none of them
were paid.
AS told in the Kansas City Post
here is how it all happened:
Five years of toll for two day $
of unutterable joy is the exchange
made by Edward b. Luke, soldier of
fortune and gay deceiver. If he had
mt had the same name as Edward
r. Luke, prominent and wealthy
resident of Ardmore, Okla, things
might have been different.
Luke pleaded guilty to forging the
name of the other Luke to a check
for $3.50 and was sentenced by Judge
Latshaw to five years in the peni-
tentiary.
1t was on April Fool day that
thought came to Luke. He was dis
heveled and worn. He looked like
the sad requiem of misspent life
but something of the spirit of April
fool came over him. He slouched
into the Jenkins Music company
store and told them he was Edward
p. Luke from Ardmore, Okla. He
was in truth hard looking Gus
TONER" but in business one soon
remembers not to go too far on
looks.
Somebody shook hands with Mr.
Luke and started to talk of the
weather while Mr.. Jenkins rushed
back to the desk to look up Brad
streets opinion on Luke.
Mr.. Jenkins there spied a record
that was almost too good to be trle
1t read something like this: Ed
ward b. Luke, music store, Ardmore,
Okla. AAAAAAAA." Translated this
means "highest-rating-h g-highest-credit.
llion-if- says-so: word
is-better-than a bond-because-you-
might-lose-a-bond."
Sell him the store if he wants it,
shouted Mr.. Jenkins to the credit
man.
Ard the credit man did the best
he could He sold 500 worth when
he stopped to breathe.
After thai it was easy sailing.
Luke sauntered out to Browning
King & Co
The King Sounded Good.
There was something about that
King part that appealed to Luke and
when he came out he was attired
like a prince. The credit man at
Browning-King had called up Jen-
kins and received the reply, ooh,
he's worth a million if he says he
wants it,"
Luke went out and bought some
diamonds. First he visited Hirsch.
| fields then he called at Martin
Brenner's. He was sparkling like a
cut glass display window when he
emerged and the jewellers had fat
checks and the jenkins recommends
tion.
This was almost pitiful to Luke.
He wanted something more and he
/ NdiNL was llt DlODtl
thing. So he hired a lonely negro
to play the part and wherever Luke
went he was followed by the ne
gro servant.
He stopped at the Baltimore and
every time he handed out a check
he remarked To-day is April Fool,
isn't it? You want to remember
that" And in chorus before Judge
Latshaw this morning they said they
I did.
Didn't Like the Music.
Luke went to the Torino cafe and
didn't like the music so he sent
back to Jenkins and got graphic
phone which was presented to the
proprietor.
At the Baltimore he wanted his
valet to sleep in the same room on
a cot as he didn't know how to get
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