Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1901 — BANK WRECKER CAUGHT. [ARTICLE]

BANK WRECKER CAUGHT.

Niles, Mich., Cashier Located and Captured in Colnmbus. Charles A. Johnson, who wrecked the First National Bank of Niles, Mich., of which he was cashier, and who is said to have made away with more than. SIOO,000 by wholesale forgeries, was arrested Sunday at Columbus, Ohio, by United States Secret Service Agent Porter of Chicago. It is believed, says a dispatch from Washington, that Johnson's peculations may greatly exceed SIOO,OOO, although the attachment, filed by the directors of the suspended bank against the cashier carried with it a claim for just that amount of notes forged against leading citizens of Berrien County, Mich. For miles around Niles the country is stricken, as a result of Johnson's operations, many persons who formerly had good bank accounts now being without a dollar. It was supposed that Johnson was hiding in Chicago, but when Secret Agent Porter went to Niles to investigate he at once obtained a clew which took him post-haste to Columbus. Johnson, it is understood, has for years been a plunger on the Windsor race track. Two years ago he lost more than $4,000. lie kept fast horses aud has been known to plunge frequently.