The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-08-18
PRETTY SPOUSE
PROVES UNDOING
OF kid MURPHY
Much Wanted Man, Accused
AS Forger, Caught by
Police in Milford.
PURCHASED BIG CAR
WITH PHONEY CHECK
Supply Of Bad Paper and
Gasoline Run Out
simultaneously.

GOEQOn MURPHY d new IOIk JlIL
the Penman." whose operations are
always accompanied by a touch OF
humor, admits today that member
Of his precarious profession should
never possess a pretty wife, If he de.
sires to evade the hand of Justice
which ever stalks in the wake OF
wrong doers ready to clutch them.
Murphy admits that he has writ
ten more checks than John D. Rock
efeller. the only difference between
him and the oil king being in the diff
ference Of the sums inscribed ON the
paper, the authenticity of the sigma
ture and the value Of the checks wher
they are presented for payment.
The visit of this suave forger te
Bridgeport with his pretty wife in ar
expensive touring car was cramme &c
full of adventure. entirely unsought by
Murphy and ending in his arrest on g
forgery charge.
In New York city this week the de-
fendant decided that he and his wife
should have a touring car. Armed
with a checkbook he approached q
New York auto agent known to the
police OF Stratford only as Jones'
and decided to buy a car from the
latter. Jones was about to close hi:
bushes for the day and go home N
one of the machines owned by the
company for which he is agent. He
had packed crate Of melons in the
rear Of the machine.
No other car would suit Murphy
but the one the agent was using. He
must buy it or none at all. Jones
sold him the car and received a fat
check. Murphy then observed the
melons and inasmuch as Jones could
not take them home without an auto
he decided he should buy them from
4he agent So he wrote another
check for 81 for the melons Not
possessing any more checks he re-
Trained from buying the .. agency
ITSELF
Then Murphy started for waInu,
Beach with his pretty wife. He was
passing yellow Mil bridge enroute
to the resort when two young nrer
of Latin blood were so impressed by
the good looks of the young woman
that they Jumped on the running
board of the car.
The irate husbe nd ordered them of
the machine but both refused to obey
They passed q number of policemen
and Murphy failed to appeal to then
for help. a fact which resulted in the
nninvited guests becoming suspicious
of him and intimating that the ma.
chine was stolen.
Somewhere in Stratford the gaso.
line supply gave out. Murphy was
broke.
Let's take four bits I get some
gas" he requested Of the two Bridge.
when I get over to the beach,"
The youths lent. him a half dollar
the gasoline was obtained and Muir
phy tried to start quickly and leav,
his two unknown guests behind. Blu
the lure of Mrs. Murphys' wiles caus
ed them, to be on their guard ant
they were not to be denied.
When the machine had reached
Walnut Beach, Murphy became yer,
indignant. If the uths did not ge
off the car he would throw them off
They were convinced the car wa
stolen and did not think Murph,
would make a fuss hence they paid n,
attention to the threats.
Murphy stopped the car and pro
ceeded to bang his annoyers around
The latter yelled for the cops an,
Chief William c. Nichols and Police
man Barnum came to their assist
ance. The youths protested the ca
was stolen and Murphy with his wifi
was taken into custody. The New
York police were communicated witt
and they told the chief to hold botl
the man and the machine.
Nichols thought they said only tn
machine <.id he let Murphy and hi
wife go. This was Thursday after
| noon. Yesterday, Mrs. Murphy wen
| to Nichols and demanded her hus
bands car. She did not know tina
Agent Jones and Detective Josepl
Toner were just in from New York t.
get the car.
| They told her to clear and and a
| she boarded a trolley car the officer
climbed into a machine and follow
ed her. She led them to a cottag
| where, her husband was stopping
| Handing her husband 81, she toll
| him to clear out.
Murphy jumped aboard a trolle
| car. The car was stopped and tn
| defendant taken off and brought bacl
| to New York yesterday afternoon
| Murphy is wanted by numerous south
ern hotels where he spent his honey
| moon during the winter-having bee
| married Christmas-for forgery, an,
| the Philadelphia police have beel
seeking him for sometime.
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