New-York tribune., 1912-02-02
@|Gi FORGERY TRIAL ON
mo of CarIeSi's Pals Tells OF Bad
Check for $500.
cay GANG GOT s5oo,o0o
c.sendant, 1t Is Alleged, Ran
Things from His East
Side Saloon.

Charles Carcsi, the stocky niue man
-, a dropping black mustache ana
"',s.ordinaryily thick glasses. who, the po-
cav from his cellar saloon. at 18TH
Nv and Avenue \. directed for several
,ssrs gang Of skilful forscrs until they
sssa,,,sfrsaeeI banks all over the country
y, 6yarsig Il million dollars. went on trial
.ssterday Ierorc Judge Rosalsky in General
lions charged with forgery i'm the sec
ond ddegree' ,,,...,,,,
cibce the time of Commissioner Bingham
- nolice have been watching Carlesi ana
IL underground saloon. one day Detective
mr,irick Riley went into the private Office
!, George $ Dougherty, Second Deputy
no,sc commissioner An Fast Side bank
tad' heep clcyerly defrauded by a forged
.re1y "retouched' by hand. In the detec-
,Iye.s yernacular. crossing identification
sa A been used to throw the police off the
.coJt Riley discovered, however, that t""
en- had assumed the same name-A. Hit-
,,ul One rented a loft in .he nCighborhood
!, ,he hank as q necktie factory; the other
s,or,Sf f,p=tness with the bank. When the
oac,aIs found they had cashcd forged
:, ock they ccutended hotly that the y. Hlt-
,o,i who haa rented the loft had swindled
them. -
commissioner Dougherty went at once TO
look 10 Carlesi. Detectives Micelli'' CaVone.
pgilio and others of the Italian squad
iclped the ranks
They arrest. d Carlesi on the evening be-
fore the last November election with l.
schultzberger and Isdor Weiss, his two
,o,,rsrs Schultzberger ana Weiss pieaaeu
rsn,y The man who did the artistic re
,o,ohins" was never arrested. The Han
aver National Bank, Of this city, Whlch Was
a. tsrd6st hit Of the local banks, lost $l5'
100 10 Carlesi's gang.
Isidor Weiss. Carlesfs pal for eight
r.ors testified for the prosecution yester-
dsv ,iHe said he got $500 on forged
"ph6to-Hthographed' check IN june l'o'' /"
CarIesis saloon one day he saw Carlesl
cash a check for $50 1t was signed by
Fred Wagner, Of the Fiss, Doer & Carroll
Horse Company Carlesi, he testified, gave
the check, which was perfectly good one
TO one of the men hanging over the bar
can YOU make one like that he asked
him.
Sure" replied the other. who went out
with the check i'm his pocket. Early in the
following month Carlesi. he said, gave
him $500 in cash and told him to deposit
II in the Twenty-third Ward Bank, I'm The
Bronx. Witness testified that he did as
he was told. giving an assumed name, and
acting on Carlesi's order, he frequently
drew out and deposited small sums TO lead
the bank into the belief that he was en-
gszed in business somewhere in the city
A few DAYS later, witness testified, Car
lesi gave him a check for $500, drawn on
the Mercantile National Bank. and told him
10 go down and get it certified. Carlesi
he said. went as far as a saloon In Park
Row, explaining his reticence about visiting
the bank. The check was certified, and
later on Weiss took the check and 500
TO the Twenty-third Ward Bank for deposit
Csrlesi waited outside. From his cellar sa-
loon on the following day Carlesi ordered
him to the bank to close the account.
That was as far as Weiss got with his
testimony lie will be cross-cxamined to-
day by Abraham Levy, Carlesi's counsel.
Carlesi vas convicted by the federal
courts in 1895 of passing counterfeit silver
dollars, and served a full term OF three
and one-half years in the Monroe County
pententiary. He was pardOned in 1902 by
President Roosevelt