Evening times-Republican., 1913-11-06
BOGUS CHECKS cAshED ~ DEAL,
ERs ISSUED eY BARNES, pEs
MONIES POLICE SAY.
FOURTH WARD STORE
KEEPERS VICTIMS
.Feinteeh a Rovner, Owners Of East
Main Street Shop, cash Ono for $3.50
George A. Esbsrt Takes Another
for $7.4o-DsIay in Reporting For-
gsriss Hampers Police.

Because retailers of this city. who
were victimized by clever forger, cid
not report promptly to the police that
bogus checks had been passed on them
last week, 1t was not known here until
this morning that H. E. Barnes. ar
rested in Des Moines for forgery, and
(; turned over to the sheriff of Chicka-
saw county for the same crime, was
one and the same as Charles Anderson
and Jim" Peterson, who forged and
passed checks here.
Today Chief Of Police Lage received
a letter from the Des Moines police
! department that the hand writing Of
! the Charles Anderson check passed
here was the same as those passed by
+, Barnes In Des Moines The Peterson
check is in the same handwriting. The
Charles Anderson check was sent to
the Des Moines department.; the Peter
son check came into the possession Of
the police today.
Both For Small Sums.
When 1t was known in Des Moines
| that Barnes had been here, 1t was too
late to prosecute him in this city. The
assistant chief, who wrote Chief Lage.
said that Des Moines dealers who had
been victimized by Barnes did not want
to prosecute. Barnes was wanted in
New Hampton and the Des Moines
police turned him over to the officers
| there
| Both checks passed here were for
small amounts. One for $3.50, on the
Iowa Savings Bank. made payable to
Charles Anderson and signed by W. B.
Cummings, was cashed by A. Feintech
and A. Rovner, owners Of small store
near Eighth avenue and Main streets.
| Oct. %.
The next day George A. Egbert.
grocer at 511 East Linn street, cashed
a First National check for $7.40. pay
able to Jim Peterson, and signed by j.
N. Baughman. Both checks were
forgeries. and both were endorsed in
the name Of the person to whom they
were made payable
Old Plan 10 Used.
A plan by no means new in such
| forgery cases was used successfully In
both cases. The man presenting the
| check came into both stores after dark.
| At the Feintech- -Rovner shop he bQught
| a sack of -four and a few other articles
Of food. Taking the sack Of -four with
him he ordered the rest OF his pur-
chase delivered to 710 Bromley street.
An effort was made to deliver the
merchandise the following forenoon.
but the occupants Of the house at the
| address given would not accept the
! goods. as they said it did not belong
there. When the store owners knew Of
this odd detail they suspected fraud
but the case was not reported to the
police until Monday.
Same Plan Ussd Again.
The following evening a stranger
ordered about 50 worth of edibles at
the Egbert store. He took part OF his
purchase with him. and ordered the
rest delivered to an address on East
State street, between Sixth and
Seventh avenues. He proffered a
check for $40. which was cashed. and
he was given his change.
An attempt to deliver the packages
in this instance was unsuccessful, and
the owner OF the store became suspi-
cious that he had been buncoed, but
did not report the fraud at all until
Chief Of Police Lage made inquiry re-
garding 1t, the officer says.
Chief Of Police Lage regrets that the
forgeries were not reported promptly,
for II they had 1t would probably have
been possible to have prosecuted
Barnes here