New Britain herald., 1916-03-22
VOICE FROM GRAVE
 CAUSES HIS ARREST
Publicity Given Girls Dying Let-
 ter Has Sequel for Police

New York, March 22-Miss Annie Richardson committed suicide in a rooming house at 246 Cumberland d street, Brooklyn, after writing a note to J. Frank Baxter, a salesman, who 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 re1a- tives in Barre, Vt, and she accused Baxter of running her life and killing her. She expressed the hope that If there is just God, and I believe there is," Baxter would be punished for his "crime."
 The letter and other facts In the case as obtained by the police receiv- ed wide publicity in the newspapers. AS a result Baxter was arrested last night on the charge of having forged travellers checks for ,O00 issued by the American Express company in January, 1915, to A. c. Baxter, a wealthy real estate dealer of Phil adelphia.
 Checks For s9sO Cashed.
 The checks ranged in value from S20 to $50. The company stated that they had been stolen and that $9S0 worth had been cashed, signed with the name "A. c. Baxter" and indorsed F hs U. Frank Baxter" Agents of the company had obtained no tangible clue until the stories containing Miss Richardson's letter were published. Then the Sixth Branch Detective Bureau was notified and Captain John Coughlin sent Detective Blank to interview Baxter.
 Trhe detective 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 blotter. Bail was fixed at s1, 1,000, and Baxter obtained a bondsman and was released pending arraignment in the Adams street police court this morn ing. He denied that he was guilty either of the theft of the checks or of forgery.
 One Passed in Y. NJ. c. A.
 One of the checks recovered was 1 cashed by W. s. Wessen of the West :, Side '. M c. A. Mr. Wessen said i he was unable positively to identify ] the prisoner as the man who received |, the money It was stated that the 1
 
 card from the Paterson, Y. M. c. A. i made out in the name of I. Frank | Baxter.
 Another check was cashed by ] Richard RavenhaIl proprietor of the Ravenhall Baths at Coney Island, and others were cashed at the Hotel Marie Antoinette, Bustanoby's and the Bancroft House at Worcester, Mass,
 Recording to the police, the name "J. Frank Baxter" on all of the checks recovered was in the same 1 handwriting, but they were unable l last night to obtain specimen of 1 the prisoners handwriting in order | to make comparison with the sigma l ture. The police said that A. c. BaX- | ter of Philadelphia, to whom the 1 checks were issued originally did ! notsreceive them, and that his sigma l ture on the checks was a forgery. ! The circumstances under which the 1 checks were stolen could not be l obtained last night.
 Baxter is 40 years old. and is em l ployed by Baxter, Kelly & Faust, dry l goods merchants of 47 Mercer street. l When he was questioned about Miss ] Richardson's suicide he said she was l a corset filter in a Fulton street de- { paftment store in Brooklyn, a nd that they met about three years ago in a restaurant. Shortly after that they went to live in a Washington avenue house as brother and sister A year ago they moved to the house h, Cur,1ber1and street