New Ulm review., 1913-09-03
County Fair Visitor in Trou-
BILE AS a Result Of
Strong Drink.
Tries To Get Rich Quick BY
Raising His Pay
Check 5000.

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Night Policeman William Emmerich
ferreted out crude check forger Fri
day evening and landed their man be.
bind the bars in the county jail, where
he was given an opportunity to reflect
over bis misdeeds and yesterday
morning be was arraigned before City
Justice N. HenninRsen 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-
dtstely and not return, which he
promised faithfully to do.
r. N. Post, the name claimed by
the man, is apparently addicted to
drink in ito strongest form for he ab-
s0rbs clear alcohol In considersble
quantities and it 10 believed that he
committed the felony of which he was
guilty while under the baneful In
duence OF intoxicating liquors. This
circumstances prompted the justice to
exercise clemency instead of binding
the man over to the grand jury of the
December term of district court. It
will probably serve him as q 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 % member of Gollnick &
ICQmpsny's threshing crew of West
Newton and that he quit work the
lettsr part Of last week, receiving re.
munerstion in The sum Of S6 co for the
work he did. This amount waA paid
him BY means of check which was
written with an indelible pencil.
The stranger came to New Ulm Fri
day and apparently imbibed rather
freely in bis favorite strong drink.
which fact seems to be substantiated
by the crude manner in which he went
about the dishonest task of raising
the amount of the check from e6. 90 to
$4,000. This he accomplished by
simply placing cipher after the 6gu, Q
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 a common
black lead pencil 50 that it did not
require the keen detective instinct of
q Sherlock Holmes to notice the dis.
After raising the check, Post went
out to the fair grounds and approa oached
several 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
md Post was soon landed in the
police dragnet and placed in the coupty
oastile. The officers found him at the
air grounds. When arrested, he was
considerably under the influence of
lrink and 1t 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
rasing the cipher and the letters I
ty." The telltaIe piece of paper was t
scured by Chief Klause and when he i
snded 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 q r
int bottle of alcohol on his person a
hen he was spprehended. E
omeone Guilty Of a Mean Trick :