The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-30
Macauley, Mine Owner, Now
Brings Suit for S750,0OO
Against n. Y. Firms.
IDENTIFIED AS
A FAMOUS FORGER
Broken in Health by Persistent Prosecu-
ton When the Real Forger Began OPP
erations Again and Authorities Were
Forced to Admit Error.

NEW YORK, Jan 30.-Alexander ?.
Macauley, prominent Canadian mine
owner and operator, who was forced
to spend thousands of dollars to prove
he was not a crook of international rep
utation, yesterday has begun suits for
$500, 900 and $25o,000 damages in the
supreme court. The larger suit is
against Theodore B. Starr, inc, jewel
Iers, and the other against Brooks
Brothers, inc.
The story Of Maeauley is page from
real life stranger than fiction. Arrest
ed in st. Louis a year ago under the
belief he was Christmas Keough,
forger of daring and originality who
has made many of the greatest sleuths
of the United States look like country
constables, Macauley found himself the
victim of mistaken Identification that
almost landed him in a felon s cell.
1t was only after he had spent $50
600 and had been broken in health. he
charges, by his persistent prosecution,
and when the real "'Christmas'
Keough again began his operations. that
the authorities finally admitted their
mistake, dismissing the charges against
him.
In explaining why he sues Theodore
starr, inc, for twice as much as he
asks from Brooks Brothers, Macaulcy
says the iewelry firm event to great
er lengths and displayed more malice
IN its efforts 10 fastcn the forgery
charges upon him than did the tailoring
establishment.
Brooks Brothers contented them
selves, SAYS the complaint against that
| firm. with sending representatives be
/ fore the local grand jury and submit
/ ting evidence upon which an indict-
mcnt, and later a supers"ding iudict
lncnt, were found against him. The
| jcwelr. eomparE, however, asserts the
complaint against that concern. sent
/ agents ~ Jefferson City, Mo, to testify
to the alleged forgery before the GOV
crnor in the proceedings to have Ma
caulet eXtradited to New FORK.
Macaulev further charges in his com
plants that as a result Of the allegeC
malicious prosecution of him BIZ the L.
fendaEts he was damaged in charaetc,
and reputation, made i'll, and prevented
from attending to his large bushes
interests for months, besides being he'll,
up to scorn and ridicule and subjected
to much newspaper notoriety, as bein!
a crook Of international reputation
when as q matter of fact. as he tol,
the defendants, he was a reputable
business man travelling from Canada t.
st. Louis at the very time the forger
les he was charged with were commit
ted
Mr. Maeauley was forced to spen
a small fortune before he vas able t
convince the authorities and the pcopl
who caused his arrest that he was no
/ the notorious forger Christina.
/ keough, said Terence j. McManu
his counsel. - He was even compelle
to pay fer dispositions used both h
himself and the prosecution, and it wa
not until his plight had rendered hir
50 Ill he had to be taken from his apar
ment IN the Manhattan Hotel to a ho
pital, where he vas confined for som
weeks, that he was finally exouerate,
While Macaulev lay fat on h
back in the hospital the real Chris
mas Keough again began his oper;
lions IN his same old way It was whe
the fofgeries broke out afresh that II
' authorities realized they did not hay
. Christmas Keough, and on Oetob,
= = last the indictments against Maca