Show YUL YuLE FORGER V IS CAPTURED CAPTURE POLICE BELEVE BELIEVE Pennsylvania Town TO 1 Thinks Think s It Has lIas Man 1131 Who VIo Won rOI Thousands Altoona Pa Pa Jan 25 After ter After eluding all al the police and detective agencies s of tho coun country n for more i than twenty years car Christmas Forger mot met mot his hi Waterloo hero this week tho police oil allege lege The Tho Christmas Fors Forger r O owes S his name to the fact that ho be operates only during the hol holiday 13 season At this time of ear year his income is I said l to overage everage over ever age a week Most of or the lie prominent promInent prom prom- mont Jewelers haberdashers and department department de de- department de- de stores of or Chicago o have been his lois victims L Lawrence Farrell Farrel of Lancaster Is the tue man accused of being tho Ito holiday operator Ho He 10 was born on a farm eighteen miles from Lancaster of r re re- Irish parentage two fifty t C-t o years ears ago Farrel who I Is said 1 to be bc a m man n S of oC Innumerable aliases alases was once well wel known in sporting circles as s Billy Keough h sparring partner of o Jeffries and Corbett U l Ills His arrest arres ensued when he Is 11 ale alleged ef to have ha c passed a a worthless draft on a Pittsburgh Jewelry house Ills His arrest In lot Altoona followed a few hours later lter The charge on which he toe Is being hi ld Is a draft for on the First National bank of or Chicago I passed In itt Scranton Pa Pt In 1913 It w. WAS given in connection with th the of or a hotel the tho forger receiving 1100 1100 chan change eTho e. e Tho biggest arr arrest st of or the hoe year the tIte detectives characterized the thc capture Tho The apprehension of or Farrell Farrel not only solves fol cs a long long- and hereto heretofore tore baffling problem In Ito current curent criminology It I was wai 3 hinted that ft It might also servo ser o t to clinch the thc pending half hal million dollar dolar dama damage 8 suit sult of ot Alexander lexander uIt P P. Macauley f a d o agency Innocence Established Macauley who Is I a reputable citizen of or Toronto Canada Canada was as arrested In St. St St I Louis Mo ro December SO 0 O 1916 1316 on the tin supposition that bat he Ito was the thc long IonS sou sought ht Christmas Forger After Hor being extradited ex cx to New Nett York for tor trial Macauley succeeded in establishing lots his Innocence The damage suit followed The Christmas For Forger cr 1 Is said t towe to tG owe his success to tl his 1 suavity A frock coat high h silk sik hat light gr gray i trousers and spats spat constitute It is JH is said faM his usual attire atre Farrells Farrell's Farrel's career In crime Is is' said al 1 to have havo begun at to time of oC the worlds world's fair when hen he and a brother E Edward went to Chicago In 18 1895 5 Farrell larrel was sentenced to lo two tWI years cars In tho the Can Canyon on City penitentiary Securing a new trial he was tas released on coo OJ bonds which he Jumped From that time Farrell Farrel seems to have hac devoted his attention ely cly to the business of ot Christmas ch check ck passing passinS living the te re rest reit t of th the year en in aristocratic Isolation of his unearned I increment acre I |