The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-12-18
GIRL GRADUATE
.FORGER BY SYSTEM
Marries at II While a Trusted
Bookkeeper and Then tIer Mis-
doings Become Known.

New York, December iG.-Anna 8.
Clifford, seventeen year old graduate
OF public school in East seventy
nth Street, was locked up in the East
One Hundred and Twenty.hfth Street
station house last night on a charge
of forgery and grand larceny
Attached to the complaint against
the young girl. who. in spite OF her
tender years, is married. arc checks
which she Is alleged to have torg ell
to the amount OF $3.50 Records Of
other forgeres arc produced. the
checks for which have been destroyed
according TO the girls confession TO
the police, amounting TO approximate.
Is $4,000
August and September of this year
during which time Mrs. clifford. .hca
MISS Anna Croly. was employed hy
Herbert N. Chute, carpenters and
builder. with Offices and factory a. IL
| East EiEhty-siXth Street The fer
series ended OF September 20. when
Miss Croly eloped to Jersey City with
Joseph Clifford, a young man iron,
New London. Conn. She had met him
on Angus, 10 at Coney island while
spending the proceeds OF forged checks
ana after the marriage he had joined
her at the home OF her parents at
334 East Seventy sixth Street.
Miss Croly voluntarily gave up her
positio., as bookkeeper and steno-
graph in order to begin housekecp-
ing with her young husband. and he
has worked hard to maintain the homo
as solicitor for the New Jersey Tele-
phone Company lie did not hear nj
| his wifc's arrest or her confession until
several hours after she had been lock-
ed UP.
Her former employer was so cvsr-
come by tho girls confession. made
without the sliGhtcet trace of cmba--
rassInent or regret that he could not
speak. The girls father was heart
| broken, and after restoring her mother.
who had tainted, he sobbed with her
! Al the East Eights-elghth Street Po-
lice station. he saw his daughter for
a few minutes. but he could only SIAM
mer his words to her
| The girl was dressed in an cxpen-
sirc blue serge gown with fur trim
mings. She laughed and chatted with
! the doorman. who kept watch over
her until the charge had been entered
| in the blottcr. and then stepped with a
! smile into the patrol wagon to so to
the East Ono Hundred and Twenty
| nth Street Station. where there is n
! liccmen who arrested her said that
| rarely had they ever booked SO be-
coming girl or one whose composurc
was SO hard to disturb.
As to what she did with the money
tho girl chung steadfasuy TO one story.
which she repeated time aftor time IN
| response to cross questioning. She had
spent It IN Ccney Island with a girl
friend named Daisy Roberts. of % East
Seventy-sixt tn Street She had bought
! herself expensive dresses with II, and
! had bought her girl friend many good
| times. bui 20 clothing. She had never
brought any home. and her parents
knew nothing of her forgeries or the
! funds derived from them. No one had
! ,nstigated the forgeries. she steadfast-
! ~ said.
Checks arriving for :hc firm from
persons having open aocountS were de :
| posted b. the young bookkeeuer In
the bank. She would then draw q
| check made payable to herself, sign
Ing the name OF Mr.. Chute to it. for
| the exact amount OF the check depos-
tied. At the end OF each month, when
she went to the bank to get the return
checks, she would take from the bun
die her forged checks. tear them up,
and doctor" the books so the receipt
OF the checks from customers would
be disguised.