Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-27
IS CHARGED WITH FORGERY
Government Clerk Became Mixed Up
in Loan Shark Business.
OTHER TRUE BILLS FOUND
Fred L. Coogan Charged With Hav.
ing Tried to Pass Worthless
Draft for $67, 900.

william Waple, 1r., whose arrest
March 20 last caused the inquiry by Di-
rector Ralph Of the loan shark busi-
ness in the Bureau Of Engraving and
Printing. was indicted today by the grand
jury for forgery. waple claimed, accord
ing to the police, that he had become en-
tangled with a supposed loan shark and
secured the notes to meet the demands
for settlement: Of his Indebtedness.
Waple was employed In the bureau and
the Investigation set on foot as a result
of his arrest caused the suspension OF
several employees Of the bureau, who,
1t was charged, were loaning money to
fellow clerks at high interest rates or
were interested in negotiating loans for
outside loan sharks.
The Indictment against Waple Is in
six counts, and charges that he forged
three promissory notes aggregating s31
and passed the illegal paper. The names
Of clerks at the bureau appear at the
bottom of the notes as supposed makers.
The first note, dated January 1s, 1911.
is for $40, payable March 1S. 1911, and
purports to be executed by Adam l..
Chapman to the order of Waple.
Made Other Notes.
The second note, for $40, was executed
February 1S. 1911, to order Of Wapie.
payable March 1S. 1911. and bears the
name Of Charles A. Hall as maker. The
third note is for $11, Drawn to order OF
Waple, dated February IL, 1911. and pay
able March Is. 1911. The makers name
is given as Samuel de Binder.
Three counts of the indictment charge
the alleged forgery and the remaining
three the uttering or passing or the sup
posed forged papers.
Joseph 4. Ralph, director of the bu-
reau, said today that Waple was rein
stated last week, after having been sus-
pended for thirty days and reduced in
salary.
The loan-shark incident has been
closed and everything is going nicely
| now," said the director.
Fred L. Coogan Indicted.
Fred l.. Cogan. alias C. M. Hunter.
alias Carl Hardman, who was arrested
at local bank, where he had deposited
for collection draft on an Oklahoma
bank for $67, ,OOU, was also indicted TO-DAY
by the grand jury for forgery.
Coogan claimed to be of wealthy
family and ingratiated himself with
Thomas L. Hume, local broker, who,
believing the draft genuine, introduced
the young man at the Citizens Savings
Bank. Officers were looking for Coogan
on charges Of passing several small
checks, and arrested him as he was leav-
ing the bank.
The indictment against Coogan is In
ten counts, five charging forgery and nve
the passing of the paper as genuine.
The first count alleges that he Forged
the name of Blaine Elkins. brother OF for
mer Senator Elkins of West virginia, 10 a
check for $25 drawn on the First Nationa!
Bank of Elkins. W. Va The second
Henry Acnterkirchen, a local hotel keep
er. The third to sixth counts allege SIM
liar transactions with checks for $lO.S0
and $40, to which Mr.. Elkins name Is
The seventh charge deals with the six
ty-seyen-thous dollar draft This is
drawn on the Central National Bank Of
Tulsa. Okla, signed by the name of c.
NJ. Hunter and similarly indorsed. In
the last count the indictment alleges that
Coogan had this alleged forged draft in
his possession April 4 last, and with in
tent to defraud represented it to Thomas
l.. Hume as true and genuine
Said to Have Forged Check.
George H. Cheever. alias Frederick
Reynolds, jr., was the third person to
be charged with forgery by the grand
jury He is alleged to have forged a
check for $135 on the Fremont County
Bank. Canon City. Col. and to have
passed 1T on T. A. Wickersham, repre-
sentative of the estate Of Thomas F.
Walsh.
AS a result Of an alteration between
Thomas Henry Butler. colored. and
Benedetto Cuneo. an Italian fruit seller,
February rs, which, 1T is claimed. re-
suited in the death of Cuneo March 16,
the grand jury today returned an in
dictment for manslaughter against the
colored man. The indictment charges
that Butler hit Cuneo with his fists
and knocked him down and that in
falling the Italian sustained a fatal
wound.
Other indictments include:
John L. Brewer, robbery; William
Pryor, housebreaking and larceny; Will
liam Henry Burke, assault with danger
Gus weapon: Edward Kent. assault with
dangerous weapon; Walter Washington,
robbery; Lee Jackson. assault with dan
gerous weapon; George F.. Cavanaugh,
non-support; Harold r. Ray, non support.
The grand jury ignored charge of rob-
berry preferred against Frank Jones.