Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1914-02-11
FAST DETECTIVE WORK
LANDS HIS MAN
(Fram Thursday DailyD

I Deputy Sheriff Joe Young yestcr-
I day morning to land 4 bogus check
/ passer who had victinized local 81
loon keepers for sos. The man.
giving his name as J. " Donald,
is today lodged in the county jail
4 singular feature in connection
with the arrest is the fact that the
man was arrested before the checks
were proven false and incidentally
| before he had any chance to even
make i start for a getaway. That
is where Deputy Sheriff Young's
work comes in.
Young was in the Birch Brothers
establishment yesterday having
breakfast when he heard that
check for so had been changed for
stranger. lie paid no further at
tention to the matter until he en-
tered the establishment Of Charles
Wallace and found that the same
man had changed a check for $45
there.
Young asked to see the check
and then compared the document
with the one changed at Birch
| Brothers. He Immediately got
upon the trail of the passer and
found him in the tenderloin dis
trist where he had spent the night
| litter touching his victims.
The prisoner protested his inno-
cence and pleaded that the checks
were all right Wallace was con-
WINGED. but Young insisted that if
everything was proven o. K at
he bank when it opened for the
lay no one would be any the worse
cor the little error of placing
suspect in the county Jail for few
hours.
"Yes." said the suspect in re-
Spouse to this argument, that's the
h of it."
After the suspect was put behind
the bars, the checks were offered
for payment at the Bank of Ari-
iona and they were returned at
once 80 their victims marked IN.
G. No Account"
Dressed in clothes which easily
substantiated his assertion that he
was a miner, the stranger. declar-
ing that he had just come from
mine "out in the country" asked
hat a check be changed for him.
| Quite naturally. Robert Birch
wanted to know whats what"
The stranger at first asked to
have changed a check for SIS, say
ing he had an account in the Bank
Of Arizona. Ordinarily a crook is
after all he can land. so consequent
", when he continued: cor. let me
see: let it be So" Mr. Birch was
enamored with the surface display
of honesty. Mr. Birch still believes
that he might have changed the
check even if it was for SIS and. OF
course, claims he is really S. in. not
mentioning, of course. what he's
out.
The stranger signed the check
! 81. A. Connors" and made it pay
able to Birch Brothers. After buy
ing drink from the results of
his play. the stranger lett.
He was next heard from at the
Wallace establishment after he had
successfully convinced the propri-
etor that he was a miner by occu-
patton and had just received this
$40 check from the one whom it
was signed by. IN. c. Turner" the
owner of mine where he was
employed. The check was made ont
to the order of J. NJ Donald and
bore that Endorsement upon the
back in the very same handwriting
which inscribed the name Turner"
At this juncture, Deputy Sheriff
Young breaks in with his work.
Further investigation disclosed that
the man had check for $50 he
had been trying to pass as we'll As
several others. none of which were
found upon his person when ar
rested.
Prescott a dead town? Ask Mr..
Donald. ConnorS, Turner, ct al"
mot by a long shot" he'll reply
After getting the coin so easily he
got rid OF it just as fast and with
little effort. The beauty of it all
was that while the victims are out
just that much money, the coin
didn't leave Prescott Boost for
your home town and keep the mon
ey here. This check sharp was
unquestionably i'll sympathy with
this slogan.
When arrested he didn't have
single cent and sadly in need of
funds as well as a bed and an op-
portunity to clear his head.