Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-04-30
IOWA OFFICERS BEAT MINNESOTA
sLEUrH IN RACE FOR ALLEGED
FoReER.
BRIDE LEFT STRANDED
At eLENpivE, MONT.
ouaintanee Said to Havs Secured About
$1,000 on Forged Paper and othsr
Crooked DsaIs-Wsds Toledo Girl
After erisf courtship-carssr Of Six
Weeks Ends il Matrimony and Jail.

+, Waterloo, April 3O,-Arthur Quaint-
ance, bank defaulter, arrived in Water
loo Monday the captive of CHIEF
E. A. Leighton, who raced with a rep
resentative Of the st. Paul police de-
partment. to Glendive, Mont. after his
quarry. Chief Leighton arrived first at
| the Montana city and soon had Quaint
ance in his custody
| Messages were sent from the St.
Paul police headquarters to the effect
! that an officer was en- route to Glen
| dive and that Sheriff J. w. Wynn
should hold Quaintance until the ST.
i Paul man arrived. Quaintance was
| wanted for cashing several forged
checks after his departure from Wa
terloc. The Montana sheriff refused
(; to heed the request Of the st. Paul
police and turned the forger over to
| Chief Leighton, who Immediately left
for Waterloo
/ Arthur Quaintance, who is 26 years
of age, first made his appearance in
Waterloo about six weeks ago, from
Edison, Alberta He came here, so he
/ told Chief Leighton. '.to engage in the
achieved success in the latter desire.
marrying Miss Ida Hinegardner. of To-
ledo, Iowa The bride Of a few weeks
is now stranded in Glendive, Mont. She
/ is assisting the wife of Sheriff j. w.
Wynn in household duties.
Courtship Brief.
-, Ouaintance met Miss Hinegardner
while the girl was employed as wait
ha1nO-
ing acquainted with her he attracted
her notice by frequent presents OF
flowers. His courtship was brief and
about a fortnight ago the two were
married at the home of Mrs. Quaint
ances grandparents at Toledo. Iowa.
BY passing worthless checks the new
husband kept his wife we'll supplied
with clothes, flowers and pretty lux
uries.
Last week, just as the police We're
about to arrest Quaintance at the re-
quest of numerous banks. the couple
left the city going to st. Paul. A wire
to friend from Quaintance inter
cepted by the police department fur
nished the information that the
"honeymooners'' were stranded In
Glendive, Mont, awaiting funds. The
lOTS5eI arrest WIGS OluCASA ny sSAS,-
graph and today he is an inmate of the
city jail.
Secured $1,000.
In his brief sojourn Of six weeks in
this city and few days spent at St.
Paul Quaintance secured nearly $1,000
on fraudulent paper. His first offense
here was passing of worthless check
at Burch Bros store. The check was
drawn on the First National Bank for
$40.
He had never deposited funds in that
institution and the check was turned
down. Next he secured $50 from the
Blackhawk National Bank on check
drawn on the Merchants Bank at Ed
son. Alberta. He also obtained another
fifty from local bank on check that
was refused by the Cox Wilkinson
Land Company, of Edison, former en-
ployers of Quaintance. When he ar
rived in st. Paul the forger increased
the scale of his operations. On checks
drawn on the Blackhawk National
Bank, but repudiated on their receipt
here, he obtained $500 and $50 from a
st. Paul bank He purchased two rail-
road tickets for Portland, Ore, and
paid for them with forged check
made out for sos. Besides the string
Of forged paper Quaintance also left
behind him a considerable aggregate of
debts in borrowed money and unpaid
bills.