The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-04-05
One for $12 Cashed by Markham
Hotel and One for IS Was Taken
By Harry Mayer.
IN TROUBLE IN SUPERIOR ALSO
Obtained About $500 From Moving
Picture House Managers About
Feb. l-Unequaled Nerve.

H. M. Mac Lean, wanted in Be-
midi for the forgery of two checks
March "a, was arrested in Duluth
yesterday afternoon. He will not be
brought here for trial, however, as
the Duluth officers have telegraphed
they have good local case and will
hold him. It is said that his Duluth
trial will be on white slave charges.
Mac Lean, who travelled for the
Laemmle Film company of Minneap-
olic until" last January, came to Be-
midi about two weeks ago and rep
resented that he was still in the en-
ploy of that firm. He stopped at the
Markham Hotel as usual and on
March "a presented a check for $12
drawn on Fred Brinkman. The check
was cashed and went through the
clearing house. The same day he also
cashed check for five dollars on
Brinkman at Harry Mayors restaur-
ant. =. r. -. : - -, =.
On March he suddenly
LETT. Bemidji without : paying his
hotel bill.;.: Ralph Lycan went
to see Fred Brinkman : and
asked where Mac. Lean had gone
Brinkman claimed that he had not
seen Mac Lean for two months and
when told of the check said that he
had not signed one. The two then
went to the bank where the two for
geries were discovered. " 5s--
Deputy Sheriff Denly was sent to
Duluth to trace the man and while
there received word that he had been
apprehended in Minneapolis. Denly
went to, Minneapolis but found the
man held was H. M. "Mc"Jean who
is also in e film business J. re-
turned to Duluth but in the mean
time the right man had jumped to
the range. On his trail were the
Duluth and range police, the Bank
Protective associations detectives
and men from the Hotelkeepers' as
ISOLATION. He was caught when he
returned to Duluth Friday.
That Mac Lean displayed UNEQUAL
ed nerve when he cashed the checks
in Bemidji is agreed by those who
are familiar with his history. On
February he was in police court in
Superior on alleged charges. growing
out of his obtaining money under
false pretenses. He had been visiting
the moving picture men in Duluth
and Superior and borrowing or CASH
ing checks with each of them for
small sums. A representative of the
house with which he had been con-
nected went to Superior at the time of
the trial and in order that no stigma
would be attached to the house, he
paid the claims. They amounted to
almost 5000.
In Superior Mac Lean was arrested
in down town hotel in which it Is
said he was found with a woman who
was not his wife. It is said that the
charge on which he is being held
grew out of this feature of the Super
Tor case. Upon being released in SUI
perior he at once went on the road
with his old tactics. Had the hotel
men, the bankers or the restaurant
people remembered the press notices
of the Superior case, he would have
been taken here. That he assumed
such a risk is without parallel. An
other unique feature of the case was
the arrest of another man with al
most the same name who was also in
the same line of business.
Mac Lean is well known to both
the Duluth and Superior police and
his measurements are in the Bertil-
Ion records Of both cities II he is !.
released from the present charge or
receives a short sentence, he will
probably be brought to Bemidji to
stand trial for forgery.
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