The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-03-05
NAMEOF LAWYER
FORGED TO CHECK
Slick Young White Man Gets $50
From Each of Three Lynch
burg Merchants.
MODERN FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Appropriation of $35,4o5 to Buy
Apparatus Will Be Recon-
mended to Council.
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Especial TO Tho Timcs-Dispatch.l
Lynchburg, March 4.-The Lynch
burg police arc wanting very much to
locate n young white man who gave
his name es Ainslie and who seems TO
be about as slick as check fiashers gem
orally are. He has flown. leaving three
local merchants to hold tho bag.
The stranger went to the law office
of Fred Harper yesterday and retained
that lawyer to represent him in suit
In Florida. He reached there just about
lunch time, and when Mr.. Harper start
ell TO go to lunch no invited Ainslie to
accompany him.
Instead OF accepting tho invitation
Ains]ie said he had some letters to
write, and asked for the use OF MIR.
Harper's typewriter. This was readily
agreed to. and MIR. Harper went to
lunch. leaving the office in charge of his
prospective client.
After that Alnslie had three checks
of $50 each cashed by Main Street mer-
chants, the checks being made payable
TO the young man. to which he forged
Mr.. Harpers name. after having fill
g them out on Mr.. Harper's typewriter.
Last night Ainslle was seen at the
Kemper Street railway station, but he
escaped in the darkness and has not
been heard of since He got six checks
outlof the back OF the attorneys check
book, and the police are wondering
when and where the other three will
bob up
Meanwhile Ainslie has dccamped,
having had three of the checks cashcd
Three Witnesses Testify.
The evidence of Three witnesses were
! taken for the city yesterday in the of
flee of N. c. Manson. Jr., attorney for
the city, in the suit of LynchburE
against the State of Virginia and the
County of Amherst. in which the city
Is resisting the payment of taxes asses
A Inv tIn
! property in Amherst County.
City Attorney Manson represented
the city in the taking of the deposit
lions, while Attorney General Samuel
w. Williams. of Richmond, and Otto
$. Evans. Commonwealth's attorney
| Tor Amherst County, appeared as coun-
sci Tor the county and State, respcc-
| lively.
This suit is pending in one OF the
courts of the city of Richmond, and
other depositions are to be taken be-
fore 1t will be ready for argument.
! Counsel Meets Thursday.
AT the meeting of the Common
Council Thursday night the Commit
tee on Light. Fire and Electricity will
introduce resolution with recon-
! incubation for its passage providing
! for the appropriation of S35.405 FOR
! the purchase of up-to-datc fire ap-
/ paratus for the use OF the Fire De-
| partment
That the resolution is going to meet
] with fight on the floors of both
| branches Of the City Council seems
| to be forcgonc conclusion, ana
| whether the committee can muster suf-
hcient strength to have the resolution
run the gauntlet of this opposition
is yet matter of conjecture.
| The trial OF Bette Redd. colored. for
| he murder of Lucian Brown, also
colored. here In January, will come
up in the Corporation Court THURSDAY
| The man was stabbed to death, and
| 1t Is charged the woman committed
the crime through jealousy
Fred Ruckcr. cashier of the South
ern Express Company here, who had
been missing for nearly two weeks
has returned to the city. No explana-
ton is offered as to Fuckers alb
sence.
In the Corporation Court Judge
| Christian has granted an absolute
divorce to Mrs. Adello ThornhilI from
Lloyd Thornhill on the ground OF de-
scrtion. The wife is given authority
to resume her maiden name, Adele
! Bowman.