Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1917 — Kentland Youth Gets In Bad For Forging Checks. [ARTICLE]

Kentland Youth Gets In Bad For Forging Checks.

Lafayette Journal. Considerable excitement was aroused at Purdue Tuesday when it became known that Russell Virgin, of Kentland, a well known student in the school of mechanical engineering, had been accused of forging checks. The scheme that he used was a eleven- one. It is alleged that in February he cashed a check at the store of Jaques & Southworth for sl2, bearing the name of Russell Roach, a student who had withdrawn from the university ; one at the Dewenter store in the city for $6.70 and one ait Nob is & Doddridge’s for sls. As no clue to the forger oould be secured, all students desiring to get checks cashed at the West Side stores were required to present their matriculation cards. Young Virgin is sail to have employed another scheme. It is asserted he deposited $5 in the Farmers’ and Traders’ bank and raised the deposit slip to SSO. On Thursday of 'last week he cashed a check for $25 at Jaques & Southworth’s, one at H. G. Reisner’s for $2, and another at the College Inn for $3 for a meal ticket. The numbers of the meal tickets are recorded when the tickets are purchased; the tickets were watched, and when Virgin presented his ticket it was taken up, and he was questioned at police head quarters, where he is said to have confessed the forgeries. Virgin claim's that he used Roach s name because he had a grudge against Roach and thought to get even. Relatives of Virgin made the checks good and took him to his home.