Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1900 — A Br[?]sk Financier. [ARTICLE]

A Br[?]sk Financier.

George Tolson, The Great Corn Hhsker Caskes a Gorged Cheek Twice, the , Same Evening; ■> . • • Albert Tolson is a young mun who now works for Joseph Nagel, a ruile or two southwest of town. He is the, same party who defied j all of Indiana and the rest of the earth for a corn-husking match, but always flunked when any one! and wanted' him to put up his j cash. . . - ’ Tuesday evening, some lime after banking hours, he called at Ellis & Murray’s store and bought a $1.50 pair of gloves and tendered them a check for s2o,ostensibly signed by Mr. Nagel, ins employer. John Chilcole, the salesman looked at the check and saw that it was nut dated, nor the revenue stamp properly cancelled, and knowing Tolson was a doubtful quantity a'tiyhuw, he refused to accept the check, as it then was. Tolson went oat, saying he would go back to Mr. Nagel’s and have him correct the deficiencies in the cheok. Instead of that he went across the street to the OhicagoBargain Store, and making some small purchase, he passed the check on them, and got the balance in cash. Very soon however, Mr. Forsythe noticed a great similarity in the handwriting of Mr., Nagel’s name as signed to the check, and that of Tolson’s in his endorsement on the back, and concluded the cheek was a forgery. He therefore looked up Bert Hopkins, cashier of McCoy’s bank, and he at once pronounced the check a forgery. A search was then instituted for Tolson, and he was found in Hildebrand's saloon. He paid back the money he had been given, without prdtest, and was given back the check. He at once went back to Ellis & Murray’s, passing Mr. Ellis in the west part of the store, asked him if he would cash a check on Josepti Nagel. Mr. Ellis told him to ask Joe Jeffries, their book-keeper and cashier. Tomon went to Joe’s desk and laid down the check, and remarked. “Mr. Ellis says for you to cash this check.” Mr. Jeffries hud Tolson date the check properly and then handed him the S2O. Tolson took it and started out, stepping however, on Mr. Chilcote’s suggestion, to buy a pair of gloves, but bought much cheaper ones than he had previously looked at,

Nothing further was thought of the matter, until the store was closed and Mr. Jeffries started home, and accidental met Frank Mur lan, of the Bargain Store, and living near neighbors they walked along together and Frank told Joe about the cashing of Tolson’s bad check, that evening, and compelling him to pay back the money. Joe at once knew that it was the same check he had cashed, later in the evening- He hustled back to the store, and in company with Vernon Nowels they took the rounds of the saloons and found Tolson playing pool in Hildebrand’s pool-room. He still had the money he had received and paid it back, very cheerfully, remarking that he would call around and get the check today. Ellis & Murray are holding the check and .will hand it to Mr. j Nagel and let him take what action he thinks best. Tolson could be sent over the road, Jout being rather foolish as well as rascally, he may not be prosecuted. Binder Twine 11£ cents pound to 12J cents pound “for the* Deer-i ing at the Chicago Bargain Store, j i Just received a car, 580 bushel Minnesota table and seed potatoes at the Chicago Department Store.