The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-24
VOICE FROM CRAVE
CAUSES ARREST OF
ALLEGED FORCER
Publicity Given Dead Girls
Letter Brings Action By
Police.
Especial to The Farmer

New York, March 24-Miss Annie
Richardson committed suicide in a
rooning house at 246 Cumberland
street, Brooklyn, after writing a note
to J. Frank Baxter "a salesman, VINO
occupied an adjoining room, in which
she said she had come to realize that
he loved another woman and. was
about to desert her. She could not
she wrote, return to face her relatives
in Barre VT, and she accused Baxter
of running her life and killing her.
She expressed the hope, that, IF there
is a just God and believe there is,
Baxter would be punished for his
crime
The letter and other facts in, the
case as obtained by the police recelV-
ed wide publicity in the newspapers.
AS a result Baxter was arrested on
the charge of having forged travellers
checks for $1,000 issued by the Amer
lean Express Co., in January, 1915, to
A. c. Baxter, wealthy real estate
dealer of philadelphia.
The checks ranged in value frbra
$40 to $50. &The company stated that
they had been stolen and that $3.50
worth had been cashed, signed with
the name GA c. Baxter and Endorsed
by 81. Frank Baxter" Agents of
the com pa.ny had obtained no tangible
clue until the stories containing Miss
Richardson's letter were published.
Then the Sixth Branch Detective Bur
eau was notified and Captain John
Coughlin sent Detective Blank to in
terview Baxter
The detectives took the salesman to
Brooklyn police headquarters, where
he was questioned for an hour. He
was then placed under arrest and
the charge of forgery was put down
alongside his name on the police blot
ter Bail was fixed at $1,000, and
Baxter obtained a bondSman and was
released pending arraignment in the
Adams street police court He de-
MED that he was guilty either of the
theft Of the checks or of forgery.
One of the checks recovered was
cashed by w. S. Wessen Of the West
Side Y M G. x Mr.. Wessen said he
prisoner as the man who received
the money It was stated that the
man VIII o cashed the check had a, card
from the Paterson Y. NC. A. made
out in the name of I. Frank Baxz3
ter.
Another check was casned by Rich
ard Ravenha11, proprietor of the Ra-
venhau Baths at Coney Island and
others were -cashed at the Hotel Ma
RE Antoinette, Bustanoby's and the
Bancroft House at Worcester, Mass.
According to the police. the name
81 Frank Baxter on all of the
checks recovered was in the sam e
handwriting, but they were unable
to obtain a specimen of the prisoner
handwriting in order to make COM
parison with the signature. The po-l
lice said that A. C. Baxter of Phila-
delphia, to whom the checks were is
sued originally, did not receive them,
and that his signature the checks
was a forgery. The circumstances
under which the checks were stolen
could not be obtained last night
Baxter is 40 years old, and is en-
,p1oyed by Baxter, Kelly & Faust, dry
goods merchants of At Mercer street.
When he was questioned about Miss
Richardson's suicide he said she was
a corset filter in a Fulton street de-
partnent store in Brooklyn, and that
they met about three years ago in a
restaurant. Shortly after that they
went to live in a Washington avenue
h ouse as brother and sister. A year
ago they moved to the house in Cum
berland street.