Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-06
MILLS CHECK FOUND
Paper Calling for S41 900
Picked Up in Chicago.
AUTHENTICITY is DENIED
'Some Mistake OF It Is Fake Texas
Woman Declares.
MYSTERY rs HEIGHTENED
Husband Declares Wife Is in Highly
Nervous State, and He Will
Seek to Solve Affair.


CHICAGO. March Ga small black
purse containing check for $41 900 on
the State Bank of Elkhart, Ind, made
payable to H. l.. Stevens and signed
Mrs. Mabel Mills was found on the
sidewalk at North Clark street and Cen
ter avenue last night by William J..
Dibos, a saloonkeeper at oi0o North Hal
sted street
While the find appeared on the surface
to be genuine the police could not dis
regard the theory of hoax. This theory
was strengthened by the fact that Mrs.
Mills had no account at the Elkhart
bank; that she and Stevens apparently
have had no business relations, and by
the statement of E. w. Mills. Mrs. Mills
husband, at Kansas City, that it is ''abso-
lutte nonsense
Gives Check to Police.
Dibos turned the check over to the po-
lice. It is dated March J. 1918, on which
date Mrs. Mills, now at Kansas City,
claims to have lost or been in some man
ner! deprived of Sal 900 in thousand-dol-
lar bills.
Mrs. Mills had taken dinner with Mrs.
II.
name is the same as that appearing on
the check found by the saloon man. she
is supposed to have lost the money tnat
evening after leaving the Stevens home
which is in the suburb OF Evanston. sew
eral miles north Of the spot where the
check was found.
In the purse also were number OF
newspaper clippings recounting real es-
tate offers, some Of which, had been
checked off. Mrs Mills is in the real
OF
home.
Over the long distance telephone Frank
A. Sage, assistant cashier of the First
State Bank of Elkhart. Ind. stated that
Mrs. Mills has no account there
Husbands Opinion.
KANSAS CITY. Mo-. March 6.--That
is absolute nonsense said e. w. Mills,
husband of Mrs. Mabel Mills, when in
formed that a check for 81 600, signed
by his wife. had been found on street
in Chicago. Either the report is based
on false information, or the check is
the work of joker"
Mills said his wife had no connection
with an Elkhart bank. and that there was
a big mistake somewhere.
Mills arrived here today to meet Mrs.
Mills, who stopped here yesterday on
her way from Chicago to San An
tonic. He said Mrs Mills was In
highly nervous condition and that he
had come to take her home.
Mrs. Mills is in terribly nervous
state and can see no one. She has been
much annoyed by reporters since this
affair came up, and fed from Chicago
to escape them. After I get her home
1 shall go to Chicago and endeavor to
straighten this thing out
IT have told Mrs. Mills that a check
is reported found. There is some mis-
take, or the check is a fake; l know
nothing about any Elkhart banks and
have written no checks on any bank
there she said
Mrs. Mills of San Antonio, Tex, who
lost $41 900 in Evanston. ILL.,, Saturday,
has arrived here. registering at hotel
under an assumed name.
Mrs. Mills Immediately sought seclusion
in her room and refused to see any one.
A travelling bag and trunk addressed to
Mrs. Mabel Mills was the means of
Mrs Mills identity being known. Her
friends had failed to send the baggage
under the assumed name.
Mrs. Mills said she came to Kansas
City to get away from Chicago police
and newspaper men. She had told them
all she knew about the robbery, she said,
but they persisted in questioning her.