Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 133, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 October 1921 — Page 19

REVOLUTION SONS PLAN STATE EVENT Annual Dinner to Be Adby Moran and Aley. Prof. Thomas Moran of the department of economies of Purdue University, and Dr. Robert Judson Aley, the new president of Butler College, will be the speakers at the annual dinner of the Sons of the Revolution in Indiana, at the Claypool hotel next Wednesday evening. John H. Holliday of Indianapolis is president of the society. The annual business meeting for the election of officers will be held before the banquet. The committee on arrangements consists of William Allen Wood, chairman; the Rev. Lewis Brown and John R. Carr. The special membership committee, of which Elward W. Warner is chairman, cooperating with Allen Wood, chairman of the committee on admissions, reports an accession of over forty members during the year. The society is among those actively assisting the Indiana historical commission in its efforts to mark the prominent historical places of the State. CoL Robert Moorehead. in the Indiana Senate, introduced and promoted the bill providing funds for the commission. Gen. Harry B. Smith reported to the society that the John Grenville Mott silver trophy was used in the State Militia rifle contests this year, after several years’ delay, on account of the war. BOYS NOW ‘ANGEL children; says TRIAL OFFICER Ancient Axiom That Girls Are Better Now Only Tradition, Oct. 14—Boys are now the 'little angel children” of Chicago mothers. Boys are better morally than girls. In Chicago, at least, Joseph L. Moss, chief probation officer, said In an interview today. “Girls are not only worse than boys, but hte girls are showing no Improvement while the boys are gradually raising their moral standard,” Moss stated. “Last year there were fewer boys brought into juvenile court than the previous year, while the number of girl delinquents Increased.” The old axiom that an average girl was better than the average boy is now only a tradition, Moss stated. Prohibition is given credit by Moss for the general rise in the standards of morality among boys. “Many boys who formerly came into court here were In trouble because of acts committed while under the influence of liquor. This is not true of girls. Practically none of the girls are drinkers. While 65 per cent of the 684 girls in Juvenile Court last year were charged with sex delinquency, not one of the boys arraigned were held on that charge. The boys generally were charged with petty thefts and robberies. Only 10 per cent of the girls were held on robbery charges. Thirty-three per cent of the girls were declared incorrigible and their parents were unable to “handle them,” while only 17 per cent of the boys were in court because of refusal to obey their parents. BEYOND REACH OF TAXES. PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 14.—John De Vos was cited for non-payment of taxes. wife appeared in his stead and announced that De Vos had been dead for fifteen mouths. REBELS CRUCIFY OFFICIAL. ALLAHABAD, India, Oct. 14—Moplah Insurgents captured Police Inspector Daniel Reedman near Pattambi and crucified him. They whipped his orderly for two hours. He probably will die.

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Cleveland Superintendent Tells of Reputed Check Workers* Visit Here .

With the visit of S. L. Stiles of Cleveland, general superintendent of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, to this city today it became known that plans of “a man and woman under arrest at Cleveland to swindle banks tn Indianapolis last July had failed. The failure was due to the watchfulness of F. E. Miller, superintendent of the agency in this city, assisted by operatives who located the couple in a North Capitol avenue rooming house. The man and woman who are reputed check workers disappeared from the city without committing a crime here and before the detectives could make an arrest. They went to Chicago. The pair. Charles Samuel Boese, and his wife, Anna, are held under warrants filed by four banks in Cleveland. Beese in this country was known as Lieut. Charles Sidney Breese, English war hero and wearer of the Victoria cross and other war decorations, but detectives alleged he has admitted he did not fight in the World War, that the uniform was purchased at a military supply house in Toronto, Canada, that he manufactured his decorations, that the .discharge papers from the English array were borrowed and that the name of Lieutenant Ureese was adopted. Mrs. Breese. dressed as a Red Cross nurse, and the couple | gave “war lectures” for churches, lodges

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and clubs in many cities, but she never was an Army nurse. It is said. BANKS HOLD WORTHLESS CHECKS FOR $.->O,OOO. The detectives say banks of various cities hold more than $50,000 worth of worthless cuecks passed by the couple. They are said to have passed worthless ! checks on banks In Fort Wayne, South • Bend, Toledo, Pittsburgh, Rochester, Buffalo, Erie, Eimyria, Loraine, Lima, Cincinnati, Chicago, Milwaukee, Kalama zoo, Jac.'tson, Detroit, Dayton and other cities. | Mrs. Bre.se, is 24. She went to On- | tarlo In 1917 from her home In Ester, ; England. In 1918 she went to Toledo, and l there for the first time met Breese They were married in July, 1020, and abou' that time the career of crime started, according to the detectives. The money was spent for diamonds, expensive furniaaed apartments, and at high priced hotels. Mrs. Anna Breese never knew until after her arrest In the fashionable apartment In Cleveland that her husband had another wife living in England, from whom detective* say he is not divorced. The method of operation was original. The cowple never passed any checks on other than banks. i “Mrs Breese. would deposit ahont $5 .or $10.” Detective Stiles explained, “and i then later appear and deposit a check I amounting to more than SSOO. These

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checks were always on blanks of a plumbers’ supply company and were obtained by Mrs. Breese talking to the proprietor of a plumber’s supply house while her husband stole the check book. She wonld vamp them.” OBTAINED SIGNATURES OF MERCHANTS. “The couple then wonld make a purchase at some store and ask for a signed receipt for the money paid. In that way they obtained the signature of a merchant in each city. Then they would ask the merchant for some good bank at which they could deposit money. The merchant invariably would tell them to go to his bank. At this bauk they wonld open their account with the small money deposit and the large check deposit.” “Then Mrs. Breese would appear and cash a large check. If there was any question she would ask, ‘do you know Mr. Brown the merchant?’ and they would say ‘yes.’ Then she would ask if he indorsed the check they would cash it and the bankers would say ‘certainly.’ Then she would leave the bank and return with the check indorsed, but the Indorsement was always a perfect forgery of the merchant's nime. “They cashed four checks on four banks In one day at Springfield, and at Kalamazoo, and at other cities obtained money from two or three in one day. I tell yon she vamped them with those big blue eyes. INDIANAPOLIS VISITED IN JULY. V “They were in Indianapolis Joly 14, coming here from Cincinpati. The couple rented a room at 901 North Capitol avenue. When they left they gave the proprietor of the rooming house a SIOO- - to change.” “When we arrested the couple in Cleveland I asked Mrs. Breese why she did not stop passing the worthless checks, and she said It was ‘just so easy I couldn’t quit.’ She admitted she had passed checks on more than one hundred banks and that she had burned up more than one husdred check books, and still we found more than a market basket full of check books and other equipment for check work In the apartment where we made the arrest.” * The detective pointed out a circular which he stated had been sent to every bank in the country, with a printed sample of one of the checks and a picture of Anna Breese. “One day," he said, “she walked Into a bank to eash a check and the cashier said: ‘Look here, that picture looks like you,* and handed her the circular. ‘So it docs,’ she said, smilingly. Then the cashier cashed the worthless check.” CLIPPINGS RELATE WAR STORY. When arrested the couple had many clippings from newspapers describing the lectures of Lieutenant Breese of the English army. The story was that he saved the life of an English officer in Franc® and was wounded. Then he was awarded the Victoria cross, and while In the hospital met the Red Cross nurse. Then they again met in Toledo and were . married. “I lectured to a group of bankers in an Ohio city," continued the detective “telling them of methods of these cheek workers and showing them this circular. On the next day the woman passed a $.150 check on one of these same bankers. There is a good lesson In this ease and that Is ‘don’t fall for strangers.’” Cotton Trade Gains LONDON, Oct. 14.—After the biggest slump 1n the history of the cotton trade there are now unmistakable signs of a revival of Lancashire's great Induatry. The spinners in the American sections are now running four days a week instead of two, and the Egyptian spinning mills, first time in nine months, have started on a full working week. POLE.* FIGHT 4A-nOrR LAB’. WARSAW, Oct. 14.—Polish manufacturers are seeking repeal of the labor law establishing the forty six-hour week In all factories. The.y claim Poland cannot reach its full stride with workers in the saddle.

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