Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 September 1902 — Page 15

CLEIEB FOW DUG III MICHlGH Cm FDISOI

he EXPECTED TO CLEAN UP *250,. 000 AND TO ESCAPE.

THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1902.

HE SWINDLED J. P. MORGAN

Finally Sentenced for Forgeries Committed at Ft. Wayno — Arrested Through a Clerk’s Cleverness.

to the Indianapolis Neva.]

MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., September S.— riiarles F Moore, expert bank forger, ,1,. , K rnHer, confidence man and gontiemrt n thief, Is dying In tho Indiana State prison. The efforts of a faithful wife, M i, i Mill lives In Cleveland, to have him paroled, have failed, even after she por.•utded Senator Hanna to Intercede with

i;. i-ernor Durbin.

'I'lie Oovernor has refused to Interfere. Mipl the parole board turn«l down Moore'a „ppll< ntlon because,the Pinkerton agency ' .,,i the American Bankers' Association | r .tested that Moore Is too dangerous to

j.. at large.

The assertion was made to the parole I,. Mni that Moore Is more of an expert than Becker, the forger soon to be released

pi ,,, the California prison. He Has Sixty Days to Live.

Moore reallres that ho has not more than sixty days to live at the most, and h,, is pleading that he may be allowed to die In hi* wife's arms at home. No story of "Jim the Penman" was ,\er played on the mimic stage so realistic as the life of Moore. No romance of , rime has ever been written so thrilling ns his life has been. Snatches of his carer have appeared from time to time In spapors, but he haa been a man

rry with closed Ups until he S.aled them a few days ago.

Moore la less than forty years old; but In- pen haa wrecked financial Institutions, driven men to aulclde and broken the ),. in* of a trusting wife and a fond rrother. It haa brought to him thousands

,.f dollar*.

Fell In with Evil Companions. Moore was born In a village close N'rw York. Ills early life was uneventful, r, pt that he was a hard student In the village school. He was remarkable for hts ability with a pen. He was the best writer In the school and specimens of his penmanship were always shown to visitors. He n:is noted for hla fastidious politeness his low, soft voice. He went to Ne

reel the

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ung man and

went to Near fell In with

and I York

evil COB

Hut h

to him t There h

Aft< r serving a snort sentence, he 1 ranched out as a Jewelry thief and a fitldence man. He pulled off several

me West,

times at

mpanlons.

did nothing to attract the police

nt to live In Brooklyn,

was arrested for petty pilfering,

ervlng a short sentem

t escaped arrest and his home at differ

St'

r iking hts home at dll • i vrland and Cincinnati.

'- tv<p. Moore and George Cochran went t' Barn Seville, O., to commit a burglary, in their arrival they decided they needed timepiece and stole a valuable watch a Jewell,'. For this they were arrest-

Jeweli.' For this they were arrest-

»■•! before they could commit the burglary. >1 >re. under the name of Charles Merritt, »iH sentenced to three yesrs and six months In the Ohio penitentiary, and t hran escaped with a three months' »• tencs. Moore served eighteen months

u? hla sentence. He was pardoned. Learned the Forger's Trade. M'hlle In the Columbus penitentiary.

M i >re formed the acquaintance of a convtrt forger, whose name he haa never rev .ilcd, and from him learned the art of

forgery and the use of forger's tools. Nearly the entire time of hla Imprisonment and under the very eyes of the prison otfleers. Moors was the pupil of

this forgery expert.

After hln release he went to| Cincinnati and practiced on safety paper for two months. Then he went to Cleveland and continued his practice until he was an expert In raising checks and forging the names of bank officers to bogus drafts Told Her He was a Traveling Man. Moore to his wife declared himself n traveling man and thus accounted for his frequent absence from home. About 11(92 a number of banka and building and loan associations In New York. Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana were victimised by a well dressed, well mannered man, who had a remarkable voice. He

rZl'STfJXT X I^r hanks amounted to $fkKi a di He even passed s bogus chec

trawaap&M

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from

lounted to ffkKi ,, ,) ay

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P. Morgan & C

lion starYed oul^^ ^X^r^ best detecUves In the country were cmde^crK him 1 WaS HOOde,, wUh olr, ul “ rB

Clerk Caught Him.

On the morning of April 9. 1K97. a welldressed stranger walked Into the office of the Chautauqua Building, I-oan and Savings Association, of Jamestown, N. Y. Ha Introduced himself as H. J. Sanford, of Brooklyn, N. Y. He desired to purchase JlXX) worth of the paid-up stock of the association. He offered In payment a draft ,J he Fln,t National Bank of Wellsvtlle, O., on tho Third National

Bank of New York, and a certificate of deposit on the Keystone National Bank of Krie, Pa., for BOO. He asked to have the dllferen: «• —1340—paid him In cash. While the stranger was talking a cl« In the office noticed that the midi finger of the right hand of the strani was off at the second Joint; the pol were notified and the man arrested. Detectives from all parts of the country where batiks had been swindled flocked to Jamestown. Chief of Police Gorsllns. of Ft. Wayne, Ind., made the best claim and he was handed over to the Indian*

authorities.

A Complete Forger’s Outfit.

In an old valise was found a complete forgery outfit, a check perforator, a check protector, two self-Inklng pads, a package of erasing liquids, a rubber stamp dating machine, a set of colored crayons, a magnifying glass, two bottles of black Ink. a bottle of red ink, two glass pencils for applying acids, three vials of acids, penholders, pens, pencils, erasers, etc. in his baggage at tho hotel wore found documents proving him to be Charles Moore, of Cleveland, O. He was taken to Ft. Wayne and tried for swindling the Hamilton National Bank on a raised draft for *800. In addition to this he secured $175 In cash on a raised draft piesented to the Allen County Building and I.oan Association ofUFt. Wayne. He swindled Nuttman & f'oWjof the sain

pile need to twi rfhte's prison to he was tak-

sufferlng fr

D. A. Orman. Terre Haute, Ind., 1*40. Charles E. Forgy. Marlon, Ind., *800

People's Bull

Charles E. Forgy, Ma People's Building ar ion, Bloomington, III., South Side Building i tlon. I-imu, O., *900.

Fostorla Building and

Fostoria. O., *31)2.11.

Plppincolt * Haln, Marlon, O.. *3M.80. Capital City Building and Loan Associa-

tion, Columbus. O.^ *280. _

Dime Savings

*80.

n, inn., aow.

nd Loan Aesocla-

i. ill., *900.

[ding and Ix>an Assocla-

Loan Association,

j., *280. Bunk,

Pittsburg, Pa.,

This last robbery at Pittsburg was perpetrated April 1, 1897, and Moore went direct from that city to Jamestown, N. Y„

1 --rested April 9.

ed an

eet from

where he was an......

That Moore had planned an extensive campaign against the hanks of the country. was evidenced by a big bundle of

»fts found In his valise, every one

raised

Is valise, every o

f them raised and ready for paaalng. With all of this forged paper Mo peeled to clean up not less than

and to go to Europe.

Nuttma

i a draft

•le wa

to fourteen years

here. About six months « en to the prison hospital,

tuberculosis.

Many Indictment* Pending. Indictments are pending against Moore for the following crimes: Valentine School of Telegraphy. Janesville. WIs.. *400. First National Bank, McKeesport. Pa.,

*800.

National Bank of Lawrence county, Newcastle. Pa., *1,200. Second National Bank, Altoona, Pa., *1,200.

FLOWERS STOLEN FROM GRAVES BY TWO WOMEN

KOKOMO MAN THREATENS TO GIVE THEIR NAMES.

A Newsboy, a Circus Clown, and Finally a Capitalist |lfJ[R J(|[ g|)0|]||[|

iftORLINGTON

The Career of W. C. Smith, of Marion, Ind., Is One of Intense Interest—His

Fortune Will Soon be Written in Seven Figures.

iSii

CHARLES MOORE.

[Special to The Indianapolis News.] KOKOMO. Ind.. September 6.—A furor was created here yesterday by . the statement of a well-known man that he had caught two women, who are prominent In social circles, stealing flowers from graves In Crown Point cemetery. He refused to give their names, but over town their Identity Is generally known. Since August 1, this man asserts, *40 worth of flowers have been taken from the grave of his son. Thursday night he stationed himself near the grave, and about dusk he saw two women wajk through the cemetery- He said that one of them would keep watch while the other stepped quickly to a grave and plucked the largest flowers. She then dropped them In her umbrella. The man went to the home of one of the women and found that she had some of the handsomest flower beds In Kokomo. He asserts that unless they Immediately return tho flowers he will give their

names to the public.

BOIES TO OPPOSE HENDERSON

Former Governor of Iowa will be Nominated for Congreu. DE3 MOINES. la., September *.—A special from Waterloo states that members of the congressional committee and local leaders of the party announced that former Governor Horace Boles will be nominated for Congress against Speaker Henderson at the Third district Democratic convention In Dubuque next Thurs-

day.

It had been expected his son, Louis Boles, would be named, but the latter declined because of professional engagements and the leaders turned to the former Governor, who Thursday demonstrated his vigor and ability as a leader the State convention, where he led

'.a reaffirmation of the

arm.

the fight against the Kansas City platfon

Evansville Get* Engineer*. BOSTON, September 6.—The National Association of Stationary Engineers elected these officers: President, R. G. Ingleson, Cleveland; vice-president, P. P. Hargan, Boston; secretary. F. W. Raven, Chicago; treasurer, C. F. Wilson, Milwaukee; conductor, A. S. Van Amsdale, St. Louis; doorkeeper, F. 8. Templeton, Denver; trustees, William Geher, Buffalo, and C. H. Censor, Taunton. Evansville, Ind., was selected as the place for the next convention.

W. O. SMITH AND HIS RESIDENCE AT MARION. IND.

[Fnm a Staff Correspondent.] MARION, Ind., September 8.—W. C. Smith—better known as “Heavy” Smith— of this city, Is not yet a millionaire, but he la rapidly closing In on the men whose wealth Is represented by seven figures, and It will not be long until he will be there. No man In Indiana who has accumulated a fortune has had such a career as Smith. He became wealthy through Industry and economy. As a boy he sold peaches at the railway station and In the streets of Ft. Wayne. Now he Is— Part owner of the Indiana, the finest opera house In Indiana. Owner of the postofflee block at Marlon. One-half owner of one of the largest soap factories In the country. Owner of the largest shoe store In Ma-

rlon.

Owner of the largest shoe store In War-

saw.

Owner of seventeen dwellings In Marion. A heavy stockholder In (he Indiana

Brewing Company.

Director of the Grant County Trust

and Savings Company.

Owner of eighty-seven acres of gas land

‘l Grant county.

ner of a large business block at

on.

ner of residence property at Dun-

sold Ft. Wayne Gazettes and peddled and with no prospects. He got two or peaches about the railway stations and In three pounds of sugar and started In the the streets of Ft. Wayne. candy business again. He could not get w. M. Miles was a baker. Young on his feet, and for the first time he was

Smith hired to him to learn the bakers' discouraged.

trade at *2 a week, and agreed to stay Just then he got work as a cgndy a year. At the end of the year he came butcher and peanut hustler with the to^Marion, and applied to Simon Koontz Batchelor & Doris circus. Things began He was so email that Koontz laughed *° Ioolt hr, * ht once more. But he had to t him, but the boy s persistence won do a turn ln the ring as well as sell began at *3 a. week. candy and peanuts, and this was not

persistence

im work. He began at *3 a week. candy and peanuts, and this was

^^ an .. y to come as a clerk. That was

money too slowly. At Anderso the show played there. Smith wore a clown's suit and made the people laugh. He did the same thing at Wabash, but

at county fairs, and made money,

he saved.

The Coffee Urn Blew Up.

shoe

son

was making

when

He did the same thing at Wabash, but when the show reached Marlon hla father Insisted that he talk bualness with him.

He Quit the Show.

It was finally agreed between them that "Heavy" should go into the shoe store and learn the business. His salary was to be *20 a month while he was learning. Before the first year ended, Smith’s

Owni

Blufifto

Owr kirk.

Owner of 160 acres of fine farming land near Vienna, 111. This Is all that Is In sight, but he has more In the way of Government bonds

and the like.

He was Born at Wabaah. Smith's parents lived at Huntington, but he was born at Wabash whlls his mother was there on a visit, April 23, 1SS8. His father had a small clothing store In Huntington. The first work the boy did was about that store. When he was ten years old young Smith

In the fall of 187B he went to Indianapolis and worked for J. A. Miles for a year. Ho returned to Marlon and bought a half Interest in Koontz's bakery. Later

he told out hla Interest.

By this time he had saved *800. He

went to Anderson. Smith and John Fitzgerald opened a restaurant. They put

in a steam coffee urn. It exploded the father <J,ed "'> dd *nly. and Smith took In first night It was used, and the res- a P artner - The firm name was Smith & taurant was burned out. There was no ' oun gman. In two years Smith bought Insurance. Smith was dead broke. rL^in^r^^a^ear^and^TL^ He started another restaurant on cred- Warsaw does about *30.000 a year.

IVhen gas was found at Marti

It, but the

t the bus the patr

slness did r

f the

pay

not flourish be-

When gas was four

cause the patrons of the place thought the boom struck the city. Smith was on they did not have to pay for what they hand. He laid out what was known as ate. "Heavy Smith's first addition to the city

of Marlon." and with an Investment of a few dollars cleared up *2,300 In three days. This was the first real estate deal of the boom. Smith traded In real estate extensively, but he always knew when to let go. When the first boom burst, he was without real estate. He was among the business men who took hold of Marion and proposed to build It up. He has had as much to do with the city’s success as any man In It. He Is married and lives In

a handsome home. W. H. BLODGETT.

ion,

i wat

A Race When the Bell Rang.

As soon as George Kline, an Anderson grocer, stopped selling Smith hams on credit, the restaurant closed. It 1s related that whenever the bell on the money drawer would ring there was a race between Smith and the cook to see which

could get the money first.

Smith was without a cent and In debt

MANY PEOPLE HAVE VltITEO MYSTERIOUS HOLE.

DETECTIVES AMONG THEM

Damaging Facta W*r* Obtained, and Now Georg* Black la In Jail—A Hot Saloon Fight.

tSpeclai to The Indianapolis News.] Bl'RLINOTON, Ind.. September C— George Black, who was the proprietor of the defunct Blue Gooee, Burlington'* notorious saloon, which was blown np with dynamite, opened a new place last week, called the Ground Hog. He' did business for eight days, when he was arrested on the charge of selling to minors. In a trial at Flora yesterday he was fined *5 and costs, which amounted altogether to 132. He said he would never pay a cent and went to Jail. There are said, to be thirty similar charges against Black. If this be true and Black follows his present policy of "laying out" each fine, ho will be In Jail 980 days. The temperance people of the town say that this method of closing Black’s place will be far more effective than dynamite. Two Detective* in the Saloon.. Last Saturday, upon the occasion of the annual meeting of old settlers of Howard. Clinton, Csss and Carroll counties, there were 10,000 people In Burlington, and Black did a rushing business. There were present In his saloon, all day long, two detectives, who were employed by the temperance people. These two men filed the affidavits. While Black Is In Jail “The Ground Hog" la closed. The place Is aptly named. The entrance is from the sidewalk through a tunnel, which leads to the cellar of the house. Steps cut out of the ground lead to the mouth of the tunnel. As the house Is situated about thirty feet from the street, the thirsty caller takes chances In passing through the hole, which haa neither lights nor supports. Barrels Said to Hold Dynamite. A wide board between two era eke rbaml* answers for a bar, and In lieu of an ice box the beer keg. surrounded with Ice, rests In a tub. The crackerbarrels are the same which were In the “Blue Goose," and It Is said they ore still filled with dynamite, which Black threatens to make use of If his place 1*

attacked.

Scheme to Expand Commerce. SEATTLE, Wash., September 6.—A. large ocean-going steamer, the Oregon, is now being fitted up here for the purpose of taking a party of American manufacturers with exhibits on a six months* cruise, commencing November 15, to Russia, China, Japan, the Philippines, the Straits Settlements, India, Mauritius, South Africa, Australia and the Hawaiian Islands.

This, It is

of

me

■, It Is said, will be the foi

greater expansion to America's col erce, being a unique and practical c portunlty for buyers and sellers to become personally acquainted and discuss the exhibits and methods of packing and preparing goods for the various markets, establishing agencies, effecting sales and ascertaining the financial responsibility

of Interested parties.

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Our Regular Line of new Upright Pianos ■■ ■ --■■• are the Chickering, Vose, Jewett, Ivers &Pond, Fischer, Hallett and Davis, Cameron, Wulschner, Braumuller, Stewart, Stodart and others. Sold for Cash or on Payments.

1 Nunns & Co. Sqnare Piano, walnut case, octagon legs. This piano has been thoroughly gone over in our shop, and for the money asked it is an excellent bargain, $45.00. 1 Harvard Upright Piano, ebonized case, $165.00. 1 Steinway & Sons’ Square Piano, rosewood case, seven and one-third octaves, carved legs, over-strung bass, in excellent condition. $110.00. 1 G. W. Whitney Square Piano, rosewood case, carved legs, over-strung bass, in good condition, $70.00. 1 Vose & Sons’ Square Piano, rosewood case, full seven and one-third octaves, beautifully carved legs. We might say that this is one of the finest square pianos we have had ou our floors for some time, $125.00. These prices include a fine stool, cover and instruction book.

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