Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1912 — Remington Merchant Cashes Bogus Check For Stranger. [ARTICLE]

Remington Merchant Cashes Bogus Check For Stranger.

Remington Press." A stranger stepped into W. L„ Gumm’s hardware store yesterday and. bought a box of shotgun shells and. a hammer. He presented a check on. Chas. Baker for $10.65, which he endorsed as Charles Reynolds. Mr. Qumm questioned the fellow and on. being informed that Baker was a farmer and he, Reynolds, was the hired man, cashed the check, giving $9 in change. The fellow said he had. some groceries ati C. W. Merritt’s and. would return in a few minutes for the shells and hammer. Shortly after he left Mr. Gumm became suspicious ahd went to Merritt’s store and found, that nobody by the name of Reynolds had bought groceries there. Hethen went to the bank and found noone by the name of Baker had an account there. Mr. Gumm holds thecheck for-$.10.65 and is out the amount of change given. The fellow wasdressed in working clothes which tended to bear out his statement of being a hired man. Mr.: Gumm has. been in business about twenty years, and this is his first experience of this kind.