Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1914 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports from Many Parts of the Country SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in Distant and Nearby Cities and towns —Matters of Minor Mention from Many Places. I > Worthless Charity Check. Fort Wayne.—Among the worthless checks issued here by a man giving his name as C. W. Murphy, and who said he lived in Buffalo, N. Y., was one of five dollars to the annual charity ball fund. The ball was given at a local hotel, where Murphy was registered as a guest and where he was entertaining many by playing the piano. Murphy professed to be deeply In sympathy with the charity ball idea, and he readily gave his check to the committee of women which solicited him. Earlier in the day he had passed one fraudulent check and attempted to unload two others on business firms. The checks were drawn on the First National bank of Lima, 0., and bore various signatures. Murphy, who uses a number of aliases, was bound over to the circuit court.