Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1912 — STATE HAPPENINGS RECORDED IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

STATE HAPPENINGS RECORDED IN BRIEF

NEWS ITEMS FROM ALL OVER INDIANA. SWINDLES BANK FOR SSOO Man Cashes Fraudulent Check, Leaving $243 “On Deposit,” and Leaves Hartford City on Car — Fools Cashier.

Hartford City, Aug. 3. —A smooth bank swipdler left here on the southbound traction car with SSOO that cost him little effort. The First National bank of this city is the loser. Shortly before noon a neat-appearing young man appeared at the window of Cashier H. H. Holbrook' with a check for $743 bearing the signature of Henry C. Templeton, a rich retired farmer who resides in the city. The check was drawn in favor of C. J. Townsend, a farmer who resides south of Hartford City. The stranger represented himself as a son of C. J. Townsend. He told the cashier he would leave $243 on deposit and take SSOO with him to pay off a note and the cashier gave him the money without hesitancy. H§ explained that his father had just sold a piece of city property to Templeton and the check was payment for the same. At the time Templeton was in the country at his farm. He banks at the Citizens state bank and his son there is employed as a bookkeeper. It was at the Citizens bank that the forgery was discovered by the son.