Show FORGERY BY BYe I e BROKERS CLERK I It k t I IJohn John Van is Wanted by bythe bythe bythe the Police I CHANGED CHANGE NAME NA E ON N CHECK j jI jiAS I WAS EMPLOYED BY E C COFFIN SON SONt t John Van apher pher and aad aid 1 messenger In the office omo of ut E B C Coffin co ln A Afern t 1 fica fern is la missing and the police are ar look it g for him Prior to hi his hiB departure V n cashed hed a check Ck for tor M b which he h altered In hk h fax favor tor or He leaves numerous debts un d Last Saturday night V Vat Val a vent ent to Mullens store on Second cond youth th street t and after arter purchasing an aa over overcoat coSt coat nat and aud other oth r articles which aggregated age aggregated 1 gated r 23 presented pre a check for o 0 in I payment ament The I he check heck was made out to toS S h him and signed by H Coffin for forK I K L 1 C Coma Sin Sn It was cashed 1 without question and und Van was I given his hi chars chan f amounting to JiO 0 Hn e ien uen he his has not been seen When the check went Into the ele el clear ing house hous at noon yesterday payment t tor 4 on or It was refused by the representative of Co on whom it was 01 drawn Then Titan it developed that Van had hud been guilty gity of ot a clever cleer jl piece ce of ot crooked crooke work On Saturday the stenographer was wasl pest l lC out with wih some checks check and stock certificates to be delivered a aI as part of ot the tho lays days trading tading Among the number was vas as a check for lor W L payable to te t B EN N Heard Beard Van had bad Instructions to deliver delver the tte check chek to Mr Hoard for 10 sla h res re of ot AJax ax stock stock He He was wa then to deliver delver the stock to R It R L and anti get a cheek for tor I Changed the Name Instead of ot performing the errand he lie lieb I tot tIt b ic some chemical Ink ei el eiser sl a jl obliterated Mr Heards Herds name Then rhen he wrote rote his hi own in its It place tore up the I purchase and n sale slips B he carried and ad I aed returned to the h n nT This T was wa about b noon non The wallet or pouch in which Van had carried carrie the papers was hurriedly looked looke over by Hamilton t Coffin but nothing unusual was dis dh discovered covered It I seemed Beemd a little unusual to members member of o I the firm that Van was in inI j i I I such a ft hurry hurr to get away Saturday aC at atI I on ion n but no idea Ide of ot a R criminal act was van W ne Early Sunday morn mornIng morning morning 1 Ing E B I C Coffin went out to one of or the mining camps He says sau he began think thinking thinkIng thinking ing Ing over the actions acton of o Van and I nt at last concluded something must mm t be beng wrong ng On returning turning to the city he h spoke fIoke of ot the matter to his son but both decided to walt wait wal until Monday morning before doing anything any thins On Monday Monay Van failed to show up at the te usual time Then it i le 18 eloped that he brought any hk h k front Colburn for tor the AJax stork Block Mr Heard was looked up and anti asked If It the young man had delivered delver n a I check Check to him him The reply was a I negative neg flog one ne It I was wag now flOSS apparent that something criminal had been done and Co were notified to it hold any suspicious looking checks Clever Cever Piece Pi ce of Work In the clearing house the 95 che ehe chek k caine estee tare to light It I had been deposited depol by b George Gerge Mullett In Jn the Commercial National bank bank The era erasure erasure erasure sure of o Mr Heards name had been d ii done ne so 10 cleverly that it I would take an expert to discover the fraud A fact tact calculated to t excite suspicion I was that thero theio thel were ere three different I of oC handwriting on the cheek check cheh I In lit the Stat first frt place the blank check was Wl I flu il Iid d t out by b Coffin Colfin Sons Sens bookkeeper it w was s signed sige by Hamilton Hamiton Cot Cof corIn nfl In Finally Van V name in his 1 own hand was w written on 11 the line lne I where wh re Heards name had originally up peered f red Van has been living with wih his mother and anti aunt aunt at 26 M East Bast Est First South I t et He Is a youth uth of oC 19 years yer and I I has bal attempted it t travel a a lively pace I Last May he was In trouble with wit Cot Cof Coffin I U fin fn Son as 8 a result resul of oC selling 30 harp of May Day stork which be he belonged longed to the firm For the sake of ot his relatives who are honest honet German peo people pe jle Ie of or but a few fe years er residence here her I he be was allowed to go unpunished His latest escapade however has t bee reported to the police plc but the they theung y ung man has secured ure such a start 5 that It will be difficult cUI to capture him |