Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1911-02-10
PLANNED WHOLESALE
FRAUD ON COMMUNITIES

The Tonopah Bonanza say that
when Joe Savoy was arrested in
Tonopah Wednesday evening by
Sheriff Malley a scheme to defraud
the business men Of Tonopah of
thousands of dollar was nipped in
the bud.
Shortly before his arrest Savoy
had received a package at the post
Office which package he still had
with him-containing 100 blank
checks similar to those used by
the Belmont mine in paying Off its
men. The checks had been mailed
to Savoy by a lithographing firm in
Nashville. Tenn. During the
evening Savoy was taken by the
officers to his sleeping quarters in
an abandoned tunnel 10 the south
east of Butler mountain, and there
they found another package of
checks, ink and rubber stamp fac
SMILES of the signature ofFredrick
Bradsaw, the superintendent. and
. Coucheau, the chef clerk of the
Belmont company the atch OF
checks numbering some thing like
100 had been worked over with a
protectograph the checks being
made out for sums ranging from
40 to 500 They were re,dy for
passage as sooL = the NAMES of the
payees and the Belmont officials
had been attached. Savoy con-
fessed that his scheme was 10 COM
plete the checks and on pay day
pass them on the Tonop; h mer-
chants.
1t appears that the TonoI al Bank
ing Corporation some days ago
received word tlrat an or Ter had
been received by Nashville printing
firm for the checks. the small
number of checks ordered having
aroused the suspicion of the Nash
Vile representatives of the Ameri-
can Association of Bankers. Savoy
was Swallowed every time he went
to the posofice, when he received
the package he was arrested.
During the latter part o. Janu-
airy he was in Goldfeld. ;nd re-
ceived a package throgh the ex-
press office here. forward NC the
package to another address on the
31st. 1t is surmised by the Tono-
pah officials that the gar g was
going to try the same scher @ with
Goldfeld Consolidated checks.
Like schemes have been wOr ked in
Globe. Ariz., Roseville, Cal. and a
number of other cities, the ag-
gregat clean up being many
thousands of dollars in eacl case.
The arrested man, Joe Savoy,
arrived in Tonopah in December,
according to his own adm ission.
He worked one shift at the Bel
mont mine on the last day Cf Dec
ember and two more in il nuary.
Tbs was done so as to get "A copy Of
the Belmont checks form tC see if
they changedthc color each month.
Saturdays Bonanza has q q fol-
lowing in addition to the a above:
Sheriff Malley and P~ostofice
Inspector Austin left on this morn
ing's train for Reno. whore they
will consult with Judge Harrington,
of the United States district court.
with regard to ]prosccutir q Joe
Savoy, held in Jail here. and
Thomas Cook, the mar arrested at
Elko night before last, for using
The mails for fraudulent purposes.
This Information will not ue
relished by the prisoners. a
prosecution in federal court is Likely |
TO prove no laughing mattcr-they
have a habit of making indictments
stick and sending malefators over
tho road for a term of years
The recital OF the facts Of the
bunko game in the Bonanza lhc
other day failed to state that the
blank checks were printed by a job
printer at Stockton, Cal, named