Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-02-09
.SALYARDS IS CHARGED
WITH CHECK FLASHING
Arrested in Petersburg After Chase
by PinEerton and Burns
Men.
TRAILED BY LEWIS KAUFMAN
Warrants From Several States Are
Entered Against Him Under Diff
ferent Observation-Disclosures Wired
All Over Country by Officers.

known under ms many rs ten aliases.
Emory Salyards, the man arrested In
petersburg and brought back to Rich
mona by Detectives Sergeant Bailey
yesterday on charge OF obtaining
sS5 from Kaufman & Co, Fourth and
Broad Streets, under false prctcnses.
is believed by the police To be one of
the most notorious checkfashers In the
country. The man is an cX-cOnvict,
having served time In the Washington
state penitentiary. according to J. W..
Erb. of the Pinkerton National Dctcc-
tive Agency, and is said to be wanted
In number OF places throughout the
| country for bogus check operations.
Warrants charging him with being a
fugitive from justice In Minnesota. New
ork and Atlanta were entered against
/ him at the First Precinct Station last
night by Detective Bailey The man
| Will be arraigned I'm the Police Court
! THIS morning by which time the Pink
crton detectives believe they will have
received Information from number
OF cities to the effect that he Is wanted
elsewhere
TRAII.ED TO PETERSBURG
by LEWIS KAUFMAN
The story OF the mans arrest brings
Lewis Kaufman. OF Kaufman & Co,
into the limclight as Il detective Last
Thursday the man appeared at the
j. b. Mosby & Co. store and attemptcd
to purchase :! dress, Offering check
In payment. This was learned by H. T.
! Gubalke, of the Burns Agency, who
was called to Mosby's store on Friday
when the man reappcared to secure
| the dress. he having been told to call
again when he first made the request
| to purchase the dress on j check
! Gubalke did not arrive At the store
until after Salyards had departed. \
short time after the detective was in
formed that the check had been passed
on Kaufman & Co.
Tho man was traced to Murphy's
, Hotel. where it was learned that he
had paid his account and left. \ con-
sultation OF time tables led tho detcc-
tive to believe that hc had gone to
Petersburg. 1t later developed that he
had done so and had made the trip
| learned OF the clue too late to catch
the car. but was able to make a train
which put him into Petersburg twenty
minutes before the car arrived. He
met Chief OF Police Ragland and point
ed the man out to him At the station.
on Kaufman's charge
PHOTOGRAPHS AND
MEASUREMENT on FILL,
In the meantime the Pinkcrton detec-
tivcs had becn able to secure Il descrip-
tion OF the man and had sent inquiries
2
about the country. Replies informed
Superintendent Erb that Salyards was
. known under number Of aliases and
was wanted on many charges. The
records In the Office Of the local Pink
erton bureau also carried n descrip-
ton of the man with photograph and
Bertillon measurements These were
wired to several other cities last night
and 1t is expected that by the time
court convencs this morning requests
thar SalyarGs he held will have been re-
ceivcd
Detective Bailey brought the man
back to Richmond yesterday afternoon,
and the charges were entered against
him. Last night he and Detective Erh
searched the mans suit case and found
implements of the check -nasher's pro-
fession. y check perforator, ink eradi-
Gators. rubber stamps. blank checks.
correspondence paper from the Elks
Club. addresses of a number of local
firms. beside each OF which was writ
ten the business of the firm. and many
other articles were found In the hand
bag. The names Of firms located in
cities as far separted as Tampa. New
York, Atlanta Norfolk, MINNEAPOLIS
and Richmond were discovered in va
rious articles Of clothing, and each Of
these firms iS believed to have Suf-
fered at the mans hands.
Salyards is alleged to have passed n
check for n total value of $3.50 in Allan
IA. AS was the case with tho check
! passed on Kaufman &. Co. each of these
! checks was signed with the name Of ~
! V. Ostrom. cashier OF the Northwestern
| Bank of Minneapolis. The signatures
| are forgeries. according to the detec-
lives. He represented himself as be-
| Ing Shriner. and his papers and cards
| were impressive. He was convicted In
| the state of Washington several years
| ago. 1t Is said. and was only released
/ a few months ago. Since that time the
/ man is held responsible to the police
! for at least nine large instances of
! check flashing in various sections.
I Salyards Is known under the names
I OF j.. g. Smith, T.. Southern, f. g..
! English, W. J. Block. Elmer Stokes, Ed
| Davis. Ed Stockdale. Ed Webster, T..
! Salyards, and T.. dc Salyards The no
| lice last night vcntured the assertion
! that attempts would be made to bail
the man to-day. but intimatcd that
! every effort would he made 10 prevent
! This.