The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-03-14
RANDOM ISSUANCE
OF SPURIOUS CHECKS
GOT BOY IN TROUBLE
HOWARD 8. CHEEK GAVE NUMER-
Gus "sLlPS OF PAPER" AFTER
TRIP TO NASHVILLE.
NEAR VICTIMS ARE SATISFIED
Claimed He Was "Full" of Bay Rum
Whcn He Bought Quantity Of Jew
elry-Tried to Create Fiction of An
other Boy in Case.
Fridays Daily Herald }

Was detected before ne got out OF
town a mass of similar slips OF
paper" turned up to confound young
Howard B. Cheek of Marshall coun
ty and resulted in the boys father
coming to Columbia this morning and
squaring things with the Columbia
merchants who came near to being
victimized by the youth. The check
that broke up the plans of the boy was
one of 1915 given by him to the Black
Drug Co. ON the Columbia Bank K
Trst Co. When Mr.. Black deposited
the check Thursday afternoon after it
had been received that morning it was
turned down and the investigation
that followed resulted in the boy being
arrested at the Union Station Thurs
day afternoon just before he would
have boarded a train for Nashville.
Other checks turned up this morning
and left pretty heavy total for the
boys father to take care of.
Young Cheek claimed to be II years
old and said he had been attending
school at Ruskin Cave College, He
had no clear explanation of this con.
duct but when his father arrived he
admitted that woman he met in
Nashville last week put the ideas of
acquiring iilegitimate wealth into his
mind. After the settlement was made
by his father this morning, at the city
hall it was stated that the boy would
enlist in the navy, where it is hoped
his first false step will be forgotten
and he will become worthy man.
Cheek in one story tried to create
the fiction that boy named j. Hill
living at Cornersville was in some
way connected with spurious check
for $500 he had deposited at the Co
iumbia Bank & Trust Co,
The merchants who had so nearly
been yictimized by the boy were lem
lent in their attitude toward him and
did not insist upon prosecution when
they got their goods and money back.
Cheek stated this morning that he
left Chapel Hill on Thursday of last
week, came to Columbia where he re-
NAMED until Saturday, when he went
to Nashville. He returned to Column
hia Monday night and registered at
the Bethel House. He checked out
there at noon Thursday and was ar
rested at the Union Station when he
went there to take train for Nash
Vile. He said that he was going to
Nashville to join the navy.
The boy had no explanation of his
conduct and insisted that he thought
he had money in the banks on which
he issued checks. Later he admitted
that he knew he was doing wrong and
said he was sorry for It, He stated
'h"b NhoH HC save tiloSL VI lHc CllCChS
Wednesday night he was full of bay
rum. He said he never drank intoxi-
cants and that this was the first time
he mad ever drunk bay rum. He had
drink of bay rum in him when he was
arrested at the station, he claimed.
He admitted that he had never work
cd on his fathers farm and although
he posed as mule buyer and the
stubs of his check books had records
of checks issied for mules, he said
he had never bought any mules and
didn't want any. He said he had been
attending Ruskin Cave College until
this year.
Among the checks on the Columbia
Bank & Trust Co. given by him I'M
der the name of J. Hill were one for
1915 and one for $45 to J. Rosenthal
& Co., one for $S.75 to the Black Drug
Co.. one for So to. Jim VOORHEES,, Jr.,
and one for SIS to Atkisson & Pigg
Bros. Checks on the Peoples & Union
Bank of Lewisburg were given for
$3.50 to Bogatzky & Bauman, for
$3.50 to Adams-Latta, and the stub
showed check for $1,000 for a pair
of mules, believed to have been writ
ten as blind for his claim as a mule
buyer. On the Citizens Bank & Trust
Co of Chapel Hill he gave checks
for $50, $500, Si25 and $45 to the
Kneble Jewelry Co., two for $40 each
to Allen e Kranford, restaurant, ana
s23.50 to the Bethel House. The stub
of this check book also showed a $500
one issued for pair of mules.
He had $24 in his pocket when ar
rested and claimed that he had $40 in
money when he left home. He set
tied the Bethel House check when
taken to the city hall.