Show e = CLEVER CHECK FORGERS Reaped a Golden Marvest Bat Are Now In Jal New York March 4Tree young men who constitute a par of a gang of clever check forgers have been arrested ar-rested at Newark N J and the leader of the gang Michael Lehr has made a confession The other two arrested are Joseph Miller and Michael Franks They all claim New York as their residence resi-dence Lehr is a marvel in his lIne of forging forg-ing signatures He has ben at work for the past four years He claims to have done all the check writIng and the gang has worked scores of cite throughout the country They began in New York and Sot numerous small sums of money from merchants from the National Park bank the Fifth National Na-tional and thc Astor Place bank without with-out being discovered Then they went to Camden and Toronto then to Baltimore Bal-timore and from there to BostoI and other New England cities After a tour through New York state taking in a number of smaller cities they went out west being particularly successful in Cleveland Two of the members according to Lehr are now in prison one Charles Miller serving a term of four and a half years in Sing Sing and the other Samuel Miller serving two year in Allentown Al-lentown Pa penitentiary they having been caught passing forged checks The three members of the gang who were arrested today have been followed for a long time by detectives |