New-York tribune., 1912-03-31
BY WILLIAM ATHERTON DUpUY

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upon which they had come TO the looted
bank. From this | knew when the checks
had passed through the clearing house. Be
cause they were for Unusual amounts,
found that there were days when but one
check for that sum had passed through the
clearing house. | was able 20 ascertain
from which bank that check had come, and
this bank was able 10 tell me who had dcposi-
I'd check of that sum on the given
late. The deposit slips did not, however,
show by what bank the check was payable,
and the recurrence Of the peculiar figures at
the clearing house and the defraudcd bank
was the sole line of proof.
TRACING one check in this way to the
man who had deposited it might not
have been conclusive; but l laboriously
traced twelve hundred Of them, and all led
70 the same individual. had confirmed my
case by proving it twelve hundred times.
The maker Of the checks, in his attempt to
give one appearance 10 his transactions, had
:eckoncd without considering this possibility
OF betraying himself. He had made single
mistake, as every criminal is sure to DO at
some stage OF the game.
The man who had deposited all these
checks was one Green, which name is also
fictitious, operating as the General Supply
Company, let US say, and keeping a shop
that dealt in small way in supplies. He
was associated with an alleged grass widow
who, he claimed, advanced him money for
business transactions, getting the same from
a adiSatfectcd spouse. The widow had opened
an establishment at Southern ScaShorc re
sort, and the records of transactions showed
that one hundred and eighty thousand dol
lars Of the General Supply Company money
under Green's checks had gone to her direct,
instead Of the trend being IN the other dircc-
ton.
"Hav;ng massed my evidence, Green was
confronted with it and charged with the
crime. Il was ridiculous, he said. He de-
fed the production Of a single check Of his
upon that bank. He declared he had not
had an account in the looted institution for
five years. True enough, | had not found
one Of his checks, and true enough he had
not made q deposit in the bank ior Years.
He had figured that under these conditions,
and with LaSallc dead, he Was entirely safe.
He laughed q. the charges against him.
81 was convinced that the woman in the
case was The head and iron, ot the offending,
AMI ~r,D. months irving 90 connect her
with /. in s,.1 q W.v Us 20 make her answer
able 70 the law. In all this | Was un~ucccss-
jul; for there was 10. scrap Of evidence
upon which 20 base legal proof Of her com
Dligi-y There was merely the TACT that she
had received grca, sums ot money from the
General Supply Company, and behind her
the record Of money spen, in SO lavish way
as 90 set q city gosS,p.ng. There was little
LETT of the great sums appropriated, and not
q cent was ever recovered.
"Wh.le Green was lav;~h;ng al this money
upon his woman associate, his mother and
sisters Were living in The mos. abjcct poy
ertv, and never received penny from him.
This fac. weighed heavily again-. him when
his case was brought before q jury and
backed by our cumulative evidence. He
was given SIX wears imprisonment. The
widow sill protested his innocence, even
after he h-, Io"" 20 prison. and nc continued
20 insist 'na, she WaS n no way connected
with The rhine. B5,h remained game TO the
-: ot the chapter. He -,ry.i lis term in
.re r,n;,on,ia~v, while She w.rt 20 q North
e~r city and opened q little shop, through
VIII. She Was gaining livelihood when las,
hear, 'ro~ and perhaps dwelling sorrow"
fully upon The wagn't..nc. Of her wild
ling in .., Southland.
n the examination If Il. banks books
- had produced second -"rrc.-. which W.s
no less startling than -E. first. and exempt
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