Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-05-29
YOUNG SW|NDLER
HAS BAD RECORD,
POLICE ASSERT
Man Arrested for Defrauding
Arlington Bank Has Been
in Tolls Many Times.

Charles D.. w. Sturrup, % years old,
who, as old in the STAR, was arrest
ed for defrauding the First National
Bank, of Arlington, by Detective Ser
geant Walter oliver, of Kearny, in
E~nglewood on Saturday. and who was
committed by Recorder James f.
Kelly to await the action of the Hud-
son county grand jury, has a criminal
record that many an older culprit
might envy, the police say. He played
his confidence game as skilfully as
many who have had a score of ex-
periences in Showing bogus checks.
The police AVE learned that Sturrup
was born in Key West, Fla, and is
the son of H. w. Sturrup, British
consul at Arbor Island in the Bahamas.
He Joined the United States navy May
26, 1906, and was d~ishonorably dis
charged on July 10, 1909. Soon after
ward he began his peculiar financial
operations. 1t is said that on October
25. 1909, he deposited in the National
Coal and Iron Bank. of New York, of
which John t. Sproull, of Arlington. is
president, a fake draft for $3.50, n
against this he drew out $50 and kept
on uttering more h fifty small
checks in various parts of the city IN
til he was arrested. He was sentenced
to -four months in the reformatory on
Harris Island and twice served terms
of several months and twice breaking
his parole. 1t is said that he also did
thirty days time in Cleveland, o., for
getting none on false pretenses.
Sturrup, incorporating as Frank w.
Smith, next swung to Boston, where
he got S. from the Webster National
Bank. On April q last he turned up
in Morristown and found no trouble in
getting IS from the National Iron Bank
and also SIS from the Morristown Trust
Company. In Bloomfield, soon after
ward. he did r. ]. Davis out of IS. He
was next heard of in Long Branch,
where he got SIS from the New Jersey
Mortgage and Trust Company. Then
he bestowed his attention upon the
P~lainfield Trust Company, but falling
to charm a few dollars out of that
concern he prevailed upon Mayor
Harvey Fisk to cash his check for IS,
but the check came back. marked
IN. G."
]. B. H. Bond. of the Y. M. C. A.,
of Paterson. is his next known victim.
He was done up for So. Then Stur-
iuP llOdNCQ uONh W tllS Slly aho Pbe
through a fraudulent check for $40 on
the National Newark Banking Com
pany. The First National Bank, OF
East Newark. was next picked out as
a victim, but that concern failed to &C
commodate the enterprising young
fnancier. Then IL was that he drifted
to Arlington. There he appeared as
he was when arrested. in a sailor boys
uniform, bearing on his cap the name
Of the "U. S. s. Constellation" He
told a plausible story about having put
his savings in a Buffalo bank, but as
he was far from that city and in sore
need of money he begged the bank to
help him out by cashing a check fol
SIS on the Buffalo bank.
The clerk in the arlington banh
asked Sturrup II he knew anyone In
town and the young man said he knew
Postmaster James Freeman, having
been detailed to show him through the
Constellation when the warship was
last in New York bay. The bank clerk
felt that even If the sailor boy wal
deceiving him he could reach the of
fender through the navy. nots knowing
that he was wearing the uniform un-
lawfully and after dishonorable dis
charge.