Bisbee daily review., 1918-06-15
WOMAN PASSES. BOGUS CHECKS ON. LOCAL MERCHANTS.
Gave Name as Mrs. C. E. Kes- ter; Officers Discover Her Name to Be Mrs. J. H. Whitely of Douglas

A woman who at first gave her name as Mrs. C. k. Hester, but later to the officers as Mrs. J. H. Whiteley, was arrested on Main street last evenin 3 about o'clock and locked up on a charge of passing bogus checks. She had passed seven of them and was in the act of passing another when she was arersted by Deputy Sheriff Howe. She passed two on l.. l.. Gilman, the jeweler, for about $40 and had se- cured a number of ivory articles and about $50 in change. She had passed one on Waffle Swartz who became sus- picious and managed to get hold of one of the employees of the Miners & Mer- chants bank who examined the ac- counts and found that she did not have an account She told Waffle Swartz that her husband was a mine inspector but she could not tell where he worked and told a number of other stories which excited suspicious. She had made the check out for S30 and had purchased a number of articles for her husband, so she claimed She bought size fifteen shirt but bought a forty eight sB. V. D. union suit and other oA NASANo- lAOAll NlAClC NO l9ftAl o drug store and had just passed one there when she was arrested. She did not get the goods from SwarIZ Bros, as they told her that they would deliver the goods to her room in the Letson hotel when they found out that the check was good. The checks on Gilman were drawn on the Bank Of Bisbee and others were drawn on the Miners & Merchants bank The ar ticles purchased at Gillman's were found in her room at the Letson hotel and taken in charge by the officers.
 After being taken over b the city jail she broke town and stated to Offi- cer Hill Ruff that her narie was Mrs. J. H. Whiteley, and that she resided in Douglas and that her hdsbaDd was in the employ of the E. P. X s. w. as a fireman. She stated that she was a victim of the morphine habit and that she had run a doctor bill in Douglas and that one of the doctors there had threatened to garnishe her husbands wages if she did not pay the bill and that she came up here with the idea of passing the checks 70 pay the bill so her husband would not find it out.
 She hired a car from Douglas to come up in and the driver Of the car, A. H. Cummings, when he arrived nere with her and parked his car in front of the postoffice, informed Traffic officer Reese that he did not like the way the woman acted and thought that she was going to pull off some stunt and for him to watch her While she was be- ing taken to the station she stopped and talked to Cummings and asked him to get her things out of the room and take them to-Douglas, but he did not do so as he was warned by the officers.
 She is a woman about 2S years old. and was dresed in a well fitting gown of white
 She will be taken before Judge High this morning and given a preliminary examination. But one charge will be placed against her of passing bogus checks. There are other checks said to be out that the officers could not get hold of last night, one on the Phelps-Dodge store and the other on a Copper Queen doctor. Any one else that cashed any of the checks are re- quested to report the matter to the sheriff'e office this morning.