| Show TiE OLD SAD STORY Young Minis Fast Pace Lends to Check Forging and Ruin SAN FRANCISCO Oct 20 George OBrien of Chicago Is in the city prison awaiting examination on a charge of forging a 10 check The prosecuting prosecutng witness is willing to let the matter drop but the Anglo California bank upon whom the check was successfully imposed im-posed proposes to make an example of OBrien and has employed special counsel coun-sel to prosecute him OBrien says he Is 33 and a son of Martin OBrien a wealthy Chicagoan who made his fortune a proprietor of a fine art store on Wabash Wa-bash avenue The prisoner says he was formerly attached to the staff of the Chicago Herald and later during the S < < r 5 r worlds fair he engaged in business on his own account occupying offices in the Chicago Herald building He was extravagant and dissipated and it is said his father more than once intervened inter-vened to save the criminal prosecul Finally it was decided to send the young man west and his father purchased for him an Interest In the Seattle Morning edi Telegraph of which George became Gorge tor I my story is published the prisoner pris-oner said in jail today I shall not be alive at the trial alve expect to be convicted he said gloomily but J will never go to the penitentiary My father is an aged man penitentar and my mother Is an invalid Two ofjny brothers are at college and my sister is to make her entrance into society this year They do not know where I am or of this criminal charge The knowledge of my crime will kill them I have been a high roller and have gone a fast pace fore but I never wa charged with crime be |
