New Ulm review., 1913-09-03
County Fair Visitor in Trou-
bic AS a Result Of
Strong Drink.
Tries To Get Rich Quick BY
Raising His Pay
Check 900T.

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Night Policeman William Emmerich
ferreted out crude check forger Fri
day evening and landed their man be.
hind the bars in the county jail, where
be was given an opportunity to reflect
over his misdeeds and yesterday
morning he was arraigned before City
Justice N. Henningsen on the charge
of drunkenness. The stranger plead
guilty and was sentenced to serve
sixty days in the county Jail. This
sentence was suspended, however, on
condition that he leave town imme.
diately and not return, which he
promised faithfully to do.
r. NJ. Post, the name claimed by
the man, is apparently addicted to
drink in it's strongest form for he ab-
sorbs clear alcohol in considerable
quantities and it is believed that he
committed the felony of which he was
guilty while under the baneful in
.fuence of intoxicating liquors. This
circumstance prompted the justice to
exercise clemency instead of binding
the man over to the grand jury Of the
December term of district court. 1t
will probably serve him as timely
warning to mend bis ways and refrain
from attempting to obtain money in
the dishonest mspner in which he did.
It appears that Post had found en-
ployment as member of Gollnick &
Company's threshing crew of West
Newton and that be quit work the
latter part of last week, receiving re-
mu uneration in the sum of $500 for the
work he did. This amount wass paid
him by means of check which was
written with an indelibie pencil.
The stranger came to New Ulm Fri
day and apparently imbi ibed rather
freely in his favorite strong drink.
which fact seems to be substantiated
by the crude manner in which he went
a bout the dishonest task of raising
the amount of the check from IS 90 to
10000 This he accomplished by
simply placing a cipher after the fgul g
six and the letters "ty" after the word
"six" on the check, but instead OF
using an indelible pencil and making
the additions appear the same as the
other writing, he employed common
black lead pencil so that it did not
require the keen detective instinct of
a Sherlock Holmes to notice the d lis.
,repancy.
After raising the check, Post went
out to the fair grounds and appro ached
parties, offering them the
check for $50, or just one-half the
amount of its apparent value. This
TACT alone caused the parties ap.
preached to suspicion the man and
Chief K)ause was promptly notified
and given good description of the
stranger. In company with Night
Policeman Emmerich, Mr.. Klause
applied his talents to good advantage
and Post was soon landed in the
police dragnet and placed in the coupty
bastie. The officers found him at the
air grounds. When arrested, he was
under the influence of
lrnk and it was with great difficulty
hat the police finally succeeded in as
that he bad disposed of the
heck at Bastian, Marti & Brandl's
tore, where he had cashed it after
raising the cipher and the letters
'ty." The telltaIe piece of paper was
ecured by Chief Klause and when he
landed it to Post, the latter identified
be check as being the one which he
ad raised and attempted to dispose
+ originally for $50. He still had
int bottle of alcohol on his person
hen he was apprehended.
omeone Guilty Of a Mean Trick: