Show A VA camors 1101 S SWINDLE N nl IN 1 tj E of THE NEVADA BANK IS RECALLED ch Cl carl tries rl he linker ker hing of tale I 1 one no of tile til 41 bertlon It lout out lar 1 until I 1 in th til Ill story et f great Por gerles ull arrest at newark N J the other il da of charles h a rice becker and james C r e gin 1 Is borne thing thit bankers all over oer the united st stites ites ali hive e been hoping tor for ever since the nevada birly bank bant siAl dwindle tidle in which they played leading wading parts rhe other two members of the gang were arrested last febia ary in st paul and are now awaiting trial in sin francisco decker becker has long been known know n as 13 the king of forgers A new york b inker binker said sald that the arrest of this m mm min in alone was worth 1000 in hard cash to the bankers of the world N orld A hy by said tie tle banker there la Is no country in the lorld that this mm min Is i I 1 stranger to and no bink bank wa was wai i safe while he was at large in my opinion he la Is the cleverest forger that the horld haa has ever known the th nevada bank swindle waa was one of 0 the largest operations of the kind tart wu was ever cirrisi cir through in this country for boldness and cle cleverness vernes in execution it ie Is said to have hae no parallel la 12 the criminal history of america on dec dee 2 1895 a business like looking man of refined and gentlemanly ap bearance pe arance perhaps 35 cars old and five me feet eight inches tall with nith abundant dark hair dirk eyes nd ind smooth face rented an office in the chronicle building san Ir incisco afaf after r taking possession of the office he had let ilet et acre acrel I 1 on the door A 11 dean merchandise broker A few days after opening his office he told the superintendent of the building that he wished to opan an account with a reputable bank the superintendent told him that he would be glad to introduce dean at the nevada neada bank and did so the bink officials were captivated by deans manners he lie nag as so a nan man of marked business ability that they considered themselves fortunate in obtaining such i t customer deans first deposit was 2600 2500 in bash on dec 7 dean drew against the deposit tor for A few daya days later he drew out more on dec dee 13 he dil posited in cash and a draft on the th anglo california bank for 95 thia this 93 95 draft was the next step in the it wa wai here that the middle man cregan got in his fine work it was ho he wro purchased the draft from the anglo bank on dec dee 9 cregan bought mother draft on the bank of woodland Wood lind woodland cal tor for 12 drawn dran on the tile crocker wool worth national bink wink of san sam francisco and payable to the order of A 11 dean this drift was drawn on safety paper filled out b the cashier in a helvy hand h ud and perforated on each end with a check punch were the figures band 1 and 2 with the dollor sign before them the dank of Wood lind keeps two accounts subject to check in san fran claca and on the day the draft was drawn they eie drawing on their correspondent other than the crocker woolworth bink inasmuch aa as the draft of 12 w aia is to i I 1 stranger ct ranger they decided to issue the drift draft on the crocker Wool woolworth bank because the drifts on oti that bank wore cre printed on safet 17 CHARLES BECKER paper the perforation on each end waa was out of the regul ir course and was done u an additional safeguard eight days das later on dec dee 17 this dhatt with the date changed from dec dee 9 to dec dee 13 and the amount raised from 12 to 22 N waa as deposited by dean to his credit in the nevada dank bank at the same time dean deposited the draft he drew out 2200 in currency this was 5 more than hie balance prior to the credit of the saleed draft and left his account bal bat anc ance in the bank 21 so that from that ume time it the fraud should drom abortive the formers hid none of their own mone mono it stale on the day that doan deposed the draft he took a young man into his amplo employment as u a clerk in his office the next avi dean drew i check to his hi own I 1 order for 20 then accompanied iby I 1 by hh hn clerk he nent i eitt to a 11 aher er ysable hired hore horge and bugg for hours ours droe to the bank and present ed 1 the check ivilue requesting biting thit it be b in currency vic pacing teller I 1 asked dean it 11 he be u oil id mind recel receiving vang tile money in sold gold and ho ilet said ho woul T th thuy li ajon U four sacks each g in lit gold handed to him the gold was put in satchel and arid vv ith the help of the new nen clerk aas as lift til LI into mo the baig that thit N is waiting in front of the bink and nd then the tile ti ewa drove to a hous house in Vil valencia eneli street where dean got out telling the boy that thit he lived there the bashel was aas carried into the house and ind dain told ohp clerk that he lie have haie no more use for the tile bug bill but that it if the tha clerk cared to tale i drle drine about the city he might do to u but that he must return the horse horge to the st stable ible at the end of the time for which it ft as engaged that ft 14 i the list vist seen of dean in san sari franceo o the malsed drift dr ift on the tile crocker bank bink ft N as duly duty through the gin in Fr incisco clearl clearing na house and arid it nis is not until jan 6 ot of this year when the NN oo dand bank received a statement of 0 its account from the clearing cl earin house th that thit it the forgery was something ol 01 the dexterity of the forger may be ampre dated by the fact that the draft pass ed through the hands of over a i dozen experienced clerks mahout detect loo and that even the drawers Ir miers of the draft were not certain that it bad bee X X 1 P i A 11 DEAN raised until they had exa examined mInea it under a powerful glass dean whose real name is frank L seaver and james mccluskey another of ot the nevada bank swindlers lers were arrested in st paul last february and returned 4 to a S for re to years charles becker haafeen ha abeen with the most noted professional forgers la in both hemispheres and the story of hia his crimea crimes would nil fill columns he lie Is an expert penman and an adept at erasing and rewriting the amounts on checks he lie is bold wild to be the Invent oi of a preparation of pulp with he fills up the punched figures in checks and drafts and after ironing them punches new figures oregon cregin seaver and mccluskey ar art all comparatively new men at th forgery bu business biness and none of them was ever in any big forgery scheme until they fell in with becker |