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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-05-13

S. W. Mattingly is here from
Fairmont.
w. w. Huffman, OF sutton. is
city visitor.
II. r. Grady. of Charleston, is :
visitor here.
Hiram Lynch. of Wolf Summit. Wis
ited the city Tuesday.
G.. E. Hiner, of Buckhannon, is il
thu city on brief visit.
j. a. Brown, of Parkersburg. i
transacting business here
Gordon u. Late was city visitor
from bridgeport Tuesday.
George w. Farr, of West Union
was a city visitor Tuesday.
Lee Boggess. of shinnston. trans
acted business here Tuesday.
William brisbane, OF Huntington
is here on a business mission.
James H. Moore was business Wis
itor here from Salem Tuesday.
G. c.. Arnold! of Buckhannon. was
business visitor here Tuesday.
ERNEST Randolph was a business
visitor here from Salem Tuesday.
Reuben Robinson. OF Wheeling, l.
here in connection with Robinson
Grand theater business.
MRS. Benjamin Bassell, of Buck
annon, who visited her sister, Mrs.
Martha N. Mccarty. has returned
home sttSS
Attorneys Kemble White and
Charles Powell were here Tuesday
from Fairmont ON legal business in
the circnit court.
H. A. Heinze went to Gilmer today
to look after some civil engineering
he has on hand there in connection
with railroad sidings.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-05-13
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

Sealed proposals will be received
by the Board of Directors OF the Far
nlers Bank, of Shinnston, w. Va u unit
one O'Clock Saturday, May 24th' 1913,
for the erection and completion OF
bank building to be built in the town
OF shinnston, according to plans ana
PA All bids must be accompanied by a
certified or cashiers check for Five
Hundred Dollars, as guarantee that
the contractor win give bond and en-
Entertained unless accompanied by
! All checks. made payable to the
Farmers Bank and all bids must De
deposited with the Farmers Bank on
or before the above date. A failure
ON the part of the bidder to comply
with the award made him by the
Board, shall forfeit to the Board MS
deposit as liquidated damages as
breach of contract.
Plans and specifications for To
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-05-13

experience, but 1t ives through her recon-
mendatIon that SO many young. expectnnt
mothers derived the comfort and blessing
of this famous remedy
Mothers Friend IS applied externally to
the abdomen, stomach and breasts, ailays
all pain, avoids all nausea, and prevents
caking OF the breasts.
1t is quickly and wonderfully penetrating,
permits the muscles to expand without the
strain on the IfgnmcIts, and prepares the sys-
tenn so thoroughly that the crisis Is passed
almost without the slightest distress Ians
No better nor more cheering . adTi 6 s can
sest the use of Mothers Friend She VIII
take courage from the beginn.ng The d., dsys
will be cheerful, the nights rcstful Ihus
the health is preserved, the mind - IN
rcpose and the period Is an unendtns one
Of quiet joyful anticipation.
You can obtain Mothers Friend OF any
druggist Mt $1.o0 bottle. Do not forget
nor neglect to be supplied with this greatest
remedy ever devised for motherhood. II Is
rnfafling Write at once to Bradfeld Re5r-
Iator Co. 1913 Lamar Bldg Atlanta ca,
for their very interesting and instructive
book OF advice for czpectant mothers.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-05-13
PRICE $500

A business property
consisting of a two story
frame, metal roof build
ing, store room, dwelling
above, and three small
cottages in rear, on
Monticello Avenue, all
situate on lot 50x180
feet.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-05-13
FIRE INSURANCE

is something that every
property owner should
have, let US insure your
belongings in one of our
Old Line Companies
The cost is no more and
YOU are entitled to the
best.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-05-13
F1DUc1aRY BUSINESS.

Locadie Lejeune has taken out
letters of administration on the es-
tate of Camille Lejeune with bond at
$500 and Raymond Cornil surety,
the appraisers named being Louis
Mottet, Louis Lambiotte and Hubert
Lambiotte and has qualified as
guardian OF five children of Camille
LeJeune with bond at $500 in every
instance. .is
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-05-13

above work may been seen at the Far
mers Bank A deposit of $1,000 will
be required of those desiring to carry
plans away which will be returned
upon return of plans. The Board re-
serves the right to reject any or all
bids.
BY order of the Board of Directors.
c. NJ. CUNNINGHAM, Secretary.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-05-13
SERMONS IN FRENCH.

FAIRMoNT, May 1s.-Father Men
Use, of Belgium, is conducting mis-
sion at St. Peters Catholic church,
for the Belgium members of the con-
gregation. He is giving series of
sermons in French.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-06-22

have them too apparent. All our benches are along
the roadways and not far away from light. All our
averse to kissing in the open as the masher. but he
soon gets this state Of mind when he
everybody's doing it, too!
No man will be allowed to spoon with different
girl every night will he be allowed to enter the
park with one girl and leave with another.
How do our men tell whether true lovers or
Washers are doing the hugging and kissing? Why.
in this way: Take Schenley Park, for instance.
There are three entrances to it. At each entrance
Those fellows tell almost at a glance whether
young man is bringing his regular girl to the park
or whether he is the sort that brings in different
one each evening The masher is turned away from
the entrance and is not permitted to enter. If he
does get through, the policemen watching the
benches will get him. If that sort Is caught mis-
behaving. they are bundled out of the park in
OF the police automobiles and fined in the
ing. Repetition Jail sentences and work.
house terms
No, haven't issued any instructions to the park
Bile. That is left to their discretion. Lovers all
say things that sound silly to the eavesdropper, but
we allow for that Stiffness Is not sin.
Roughly speaking my rules three in number,
as follows
Rule mo man will be permitted to bring diff.
ferent girl to the park each night
Rule 2-Pocemen must wink to themselves and
look the other way when they hear the sound of
kiss between true lovers.
Rule 3-The girl who does not want to be kissed
must DO more than say family, "Please don't"
What about the girl who fuses and says that she
doesn't want to be kissed? Well that is delicate
problem but our told to go slow and be sure
that the girl means it before they interfere. You
know girls have that habit and yet when the man
refrains from the kiss they get mad.
firmly believe that liberal attitude toward
spooners will dc much to improve the morals of the
young people of the CITY, l have great sympathy
with lovers, and this year determined that all bars
should be let down and that they should go as far
as they like within reasonable bounds Of decency
Spooning is the brthright of the young. / am with
the spooneEs heart and SOUL
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-06-22

usually man Of education, refinement and
superior attachments. Many of them are
college graduates. Certainly the same
amount of effort and ingenuity employed
by them in their criminal operations
would, II legitimately used, have made
them wealthy and respected citizens in
their old age
My views on this matter are In COM
plete accord with those of criminal au-
thorities who are in a better position to
Judge. William A. Pinkerton, of the Pink
erton National Detective Agency who
represented the American Bankers Asso-
citation for years and in that capacity had
occasion to run down thousands of profess
sonal forgers recently declared that for
gerry, like all other criminal occupations,
does not pay"
I'VE have in the past twenty-five years
had to do with the conviction of probably
FIVE hundred forgers," he said, and to-day
| do not know of a single one of them out
of prison who has any money, and, like
great many other professional criminals,
had they directed their talents in other
directions, the majority might have been
successful business men,"
Bank burglars have been regarded as
the aristocrats OF the underworld. For
gers are the underworld's brains For
this reason they have been inclined to
hold rather aloof from their FELLOWSHIP
crime. Nevertheless, they come frequent
ly In contact with each other and the
ways OF the forger are not very different
in some respects from those of other
criminals.
Perhaps the principal respect in which
the forger resembles his brother crimi.
nails is the fact that. despite the great
amount of talent and skill he possesses,
he frequently slips up on minor details and
thus comes to grief.
How big criminals fail through little
things was never better illustrated than
in the case Of the gang Of forgers headed
by the Bidwell brothers, George and Aus.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-06-22

tin. These criminals succeeded in hood.
winking the Bank OF England out Of $780,
600 and then came to grief through two
trifling mistakes.
For three months the Bidwels sue.
ceeded in getting credit at the bank on
forged bills of exchange, and then just
when they had decided to make one final
haul of $4,000, they forgot to put the
date of acceptance one Of the bills
This necessitated communication with the
supposed acceptor and disclosed the fraud.
Even then the Bidwells, who had care
fully kept themselves in the background,
might have made successful flight. but
for another oversight. In destroying all
evidence which might have led to their
Identification at the rooms where they had
been lodging, they left a small piece Of
blotting paper. How that piece of bid
ting paper brought about their arrest will
appear in connection with this accountl n
their operations.
George Bidwell and his brother, Austin,
will go down into history, l suppose, as
the cleverest forgers who ever victimized
a bank, and yet their operations covered
but comparatively short period of time.
George was the victim of circumstances.
At twenty-five he was wrongly accused of
having stolen ten dollars from his employ
ers. He was discharged in court, but the
incident proved his undoing. He found it
impossible to secure honest employment.
He started in business on his own account
several times but failed time after time.
Sometimes he was victimized by people he
regarded as his friends. Sometimes
ordinary business reverses ruined him.
However hard he tried he seemed to be
able to make no Roadway and then he de-
cided to do dishonesty what he had found
himself unable to do legitimately.
Bidwell had the misfortune of making
bad acquaintance and he was easily led
by them. He embarked in one swindling
operation after another and at last he fell
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-06-22

cleverly the bank kept its discovery to ~
self, and when Noyes, one of the members
of the gang who had been used to do the
actual presenting of the drafts, appeared
at the Continental Bank to draw some of
the gangs money he was arrested.
Word reached Bidwell at his aristocratic
quarters, in the West End of London, that
the game was up and he and Mcdonald.
who boarded with him, at once set to work
to destroy all discriminating evidence Not
an iota OF evidence apparently was left to
identify them or to characterize the work
in which they had been engaged. Every
label was carefully cut out of their clothes
and other belongings. all papers were
burned and of course, the engraving
blocks were thoroughly destroyed
While the work of destruction was going
on, Mcdonald wrote letter to Austin Bid
we'll in New York, whence he had ned, and
he asked George to save a piece of blot
ting-paper SO that he might blot the letter
when he got through.
Some days later when the detectives
from Scotland Yard had so far followed
the forgers' trail that they came to the
abandoned quarters of Bidwell and Nc.
Donald, they ran across that piece of blot
ting-paper. Holding it up to a mirror
they were able to decipher Austin Bid
wells New York address. This piece of
blotting-paper also contained Impressions
OF some of the forged signatures them.
selves and proved one of the principal
links in the chain Of evidence which the
government was able to present against
the forgers.
All four were convicted and sent to
prison George served some fourteen
years and worked for five years in an ef-
fort to secure his brother Austins re-
lease which he then succeeded in doing.
The two brothers went West. Austin died
poverty-stricken few years later. George
delivered lecture in an effort to raise
enough money to bury his brother! A few
weeks later George himself died.
George Bidwell had cleaned up over
million dollars in the course of his COM
paratively short criminal career but after
years of suffering and privation he died
pauper. In all the history of crime there
never was a better example of the futility
OF a life of crime than this
But there are many others. There was
Steve" Broadwell, referred to so often as
the man with the cough" He was
member Of the notorious Wilkes gang of
forgers. George Wilkes, regarded as the
most expert freehand forger Of his time,
was the penman Of the gang, and Broad
we'll was one of the "presenters." Every
. gang of forgers consists of a capitalist or
hacker, an actual forger, known as the
"penman" or "scratcher," middleman,
who acts as the forsers representative.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-06-22
Astonishing Careers Of the Bid
wells, Who Cheated the Bank
of England Out of 100000,
and Other Famous ForSers

into the meshes of the law. He served
his first prison term when he wcs thirty.
Escaping from a Southern jail, George
Bidwell visited New York. There he met
George Engle. professional forger, and
Bidwen at once commenced his real Grim
inal career.
For several years these two worked to-
gether in this country cleaning up several
thousand dollars year on forged paper,
and then, with his brother Austin and
George Mcdonald. Harvard graduate of
criminal tendencies, went to Europe.
Bidwell had we'll mapped out plan of
campaign. He bought letter of credit
from big London bank and obtained
some of the banks stationery. He then
forged some letters of introduction sup.
posed to have been signed by the manager
Of the bank and mailed them to various
banks throughout Europe. He. also sent
letters written on the London banks sta.
tionery to himself in care Of these banks.
He then proceeded to the various
European capitals. asked for his mail at
the banks to which he had addressed 1t,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-06-22

needle Street" in the name Of Warren"
Another account was opened in the Con-
tipental Bank. False bills of exchange
for amounts averaging about $4,000 were
discounted almost daily at the Bank of
England and put to the Warren account
Checks were drawn against that account
and the proceeds invested In American
bonds.
The success of the forgers was SO great
that within a few months they had
amassed fortune Of 100000 in bonds be-
side several thousand dollars in cash
They decided that to continue the game
Indefinitely would be running unnecessary
risk and final coup calculated to net
them some $4,000 was planned.
1t was this coup which proved their un.
doing. Through pure carelessness the
clever Bidwell forgot to insert the date OF
the acceptance OF the draft. or course,
the bank regarded 1t as a mere oversight,
but they had to communicate with the sup
posed acceptor In order to have tho omis-
sion supplied, and thus the forged char.
acter of the bill was discovered. Very
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-06-22
oqpyrsa.. 1918. by tn. Star Company.

Copyright. 1915. by the Star Company.
IF there Is one crime on the calendar
which might be expected ito pay" for
4 gerry. on first thought, would seem to
be it.
Other criminals work for returns which
are more or less problematical. When the
pickpocket slips his hand into your hip.
pocket he risks his liberty for wallet
which may contain little or nothing. The
bag-snatcher may secure only worthless
handbag containing loose change and a
few trinkets. The house-burglar takes
hig chances for loot which may not be
worth carrying away.
This is not the case with the forger.
Unlike other criminals, the forger fixes
the amount of his booty himself In this
respect he is restrained only by such limi-
tations as the circumstances may suggest.
In the majority Of cases, however in max
ing out the forged instrument, he may fill
in any amount he happens to need.
Under these circumstances. forgery
ought 10 pay. 1t doesn't. | have known
scores of professional forgers in the
course of my own criminal career and
there is not single one alive to-day who
has anything 20 show for the years of
labor he has put into his criminal career.
Many Of these criminals are dead. None
OF those left any estates. Others whom l
knew in the old days are spending their
declining years behind prison walls. All
the others are in straitened circumstances.
Some OF them have resorted to less dig
nifed forms of crime and are living the
wretched existence of the underworld.
There isn't single forger whom knew
in the old days or who has since come
directly or indirectly TO my attention who
is worth s5,000.to-day. And these are the
fellows who. have cleaned up anywhere
from $500 to $4,000 in single transac.
ton.
These facts are the more significant
when ii is remembered that the forger is
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-06-22
BY Thomas S. McQuaide,
Plttsburahs superIntendent Of Police.

Police.
XVyHY should not the of true love run
W. smooth? Why should spooning be inter-
fered with? If all the world loves lovers
why should they be forced to do their spoonng their
ove-making under cover? 1t is the business of any
city to that lovers are given place to spoon in
AND because | was once lover ! am determined
that for once the young people OF Pittsburgh shall
be given every opportunity to spoon to their hearts
content.
AND where else should they spoon, where else
shoud they kiss but in the public parks? Our parks
VIII De transformed every evening into spoonholders
where the true lovers talk their sweet nothings
can embrace each other. and do all the airy trifng
lovishnesses that comprise courtshp But OF
course 1t IS necessary that true lovers be distn.
gulshed from the masher. The former shall not
only be welcomed, but encouraged to spoon The
latter VIII be given free ride in police wagon
us love that makes the world go round, and it ia
spooning, that is, lovemaking, that Is the greater
part OF love And young people should be made to
feel that they doing nothing to be ashamed of
when they frankly spoon
The more open lovemaking there is under tho
vice there is apt to be.
What harm is there in young couple going into
the PARK OF an afternoon evening, seating them
selves bench and spooning? What ~ the vonne
fellow does put his arm around the girls waist or
even II he embraces and kisses her? There is no
wrong III that Then why should they be driven
out OF the park, or perhaps arrested for doing some
thing that the magistrate and the chief of police and
everybody else did when they were young and do
still, too? ~ Nv
AS i understand it, the parks are the Fairgrounds
OF the people = mostly the common people who
haven't the means to provide for themselves the
expensive amusements of the wealthy The narks
should be made attractive as possible esneci.IIu
70 the young people. For If you provide decent,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-06-22

park men, who have been there for years. They
know the difference between true lover and
Inasher every time. These men young once
themselves and they have not forgotten the DAYS OF
their own spooning They have been told that they
are 10 let the decent lovers alone, that when they
near the sound that may reasonably lead them TO
suppose that someone has been kissed, they are to
look out OF the corner of their eye to whether
inc man IN the case is the right sort he u.s. then
the police chaperon is to pass on and the lovers
may go on with the good work
or course we take precautions, but We try not to
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-06-22

presented his forged letters of introduction
and easily succeeded in getting the banks
to cash the forged checks and drafts he
presented to them.
In this way he cleaned up hundreds OF
thousands of dollars. The gang had not
been operating long in Europe before they
discovered that the Bank Of England might
prove an easy victim. An account was
opened with 1.-THE Old Lady of Thread.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-06-22
The New Plan to Encourage Love-Makin6

clean amusement for your boys and girls they are
not nearly SO likely to go wrong.
Our park policemen have been instructed to use
their discretion in determining between true lovers
and Washers. We have twenty-five old, experienced
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-07-17
OUCH!

Two women who had not seen each
other for many years met unexpect-
edly in the street.
''How do you dO?" exclaimed one,
effusively.
'eNow, this is deEghtful!'' said the
other, who was the elder. you
haven't seen me for eleven years, and
yet you know me at once! 1 cannot
have changed so dreadfully in all that
time. It fiatteTs mep'
ooh, 1 recognized your bennett"
said the first.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-07-17

Mcclure was appearing in the An
nenberg shooting case.
The Day Book continued the quest
for the answer to the inspiring ques-
ton: How does one go about COB
tanning witnesses favorable to the de-
tense?
Yesterday The Day Book sent a
reported to ask the question Of Tom
Mcclure, the gentleman most likely
to be able to give a full and efficient
answer to the question.
Mr.. Mcclure, who knew this par
ticuIar reporter, apparently was
afraid o fhim, and hid in his Office
for hours while the reporter tWiddled
his thumbs outside.
Thus The Day Book was left with
out an answer to the question yes
terday.
So today The Day Book adopted
more cunning. It sent to MIR. Nc
Cures office a reporter whom Mr.
Mcclure had not then had the pleas
ure of meeting, with. instructions
that he should ask Mr.. Mcclure for
the necessary information.
Not knowing the reporter was
from The Day Book, Mr.. Mcclure
came out to see him, shook hands
with him and remarked that it was
warm day.
''How do you go about obtaining
witnesses for the Defense Mr.. Nc
GUire?" asked the reporter.
McGuire's face redeemed. It is to
least, he was rude enough to try and
shut the door in the reporters face.
Possibly the reporter had antici-
pated this, because his foot happened
to be in the doorway and the door
did not slam.
Ct just want to talk to you for a
minute, Mr.. Mcclure, " said the re-
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-07-17
DEFECTIVE MCGUIRE Is MOO BUSY" no TELE

> "IOO BUSY 10 lkLL
porter, softly, Gust minute"
You're from The Day Book"
spluttered Mr.. Mcclure, thus display
ing his detective ability.
yes" said the reporter, chow do
you obtain witnesses favorable to
the defense?'"
'I won't have anything to do with
The Day Book" Mcclure shouted.
''Are you the man who wrote that
story about me yesterday"
Nope" said the reporter, 81 just
came down here because the city
editir wanted me to ask you how you
obtain witnesses favor
81 won't talk to you; I won't talk
to you!" shouted MCGUIRE.
McGuire's employees in the outer
Office seemed to be enjoying the con-
versation.
'Pm busy said Mcclure, more
calmly, but glaring at the reporter.
"OnIy take you a minute to an
swer the question" said the reporter.
''How do you go about obtaining
witnesses favor"
But Mcclure had fled and there
was the sound of a key turning in the
door.
Still The Day Book is not without
hope. Mr.. Mcclure might be success
full in obtaining witnesses for the
defense" in the Annenberg case, and
in such circumstances it might be
possible for jealous Investigators to
find out just how Mr., Mcclure turned
the trick.
1890