Show I FORGE CHECK ON WALKER BROS BANK I THREE NEW YORK MEN CONFESS CRIME For forging a check for 2900 on Walker alker Brothers bank of ot this city James J J Graham assistant cashier of ot the bank at 49 Wall Wallstreet Wallstreet Wallstreet street New York City James W Daly paying teller at the same bank and Alfred Burrows a mining operator have been arrested In New York Gra Graham Graham Graham ham has confessed to the forgery and has implicated the other two In the crime The arrest of ot the three men followed the discovery of a cleverly arranged plot for the purpose of making good a deficit In the funds of or Burrows that were w re in the bank The story originally told by the assistant cashier was that on October 22 he was In the paying tel tellers tellers tellers lers cage cage when two men wearing som sombreros sombreros sombreros and bearing every Indication of ot being westerners approached the win window window dow tiow They asked to see the th president of the bank Graham said he told them that A E K Goodridge the president was not in that that time Thereupon the westerners produced a aletter aletter aletter letter of Introduction signed by David F Walker formerly of Salt Lake who was at one time president of the Inter borough bank This letter asked that the officials of the bank banI show the strangers every consideration They also presented a check for 2900 drawn on Walker Valker Brothers bank of Salt Lake and bearing the signature of David T Walker Graham said he carefully ex examined examIned examined the check and after requiring the indorsement of each of ot the west westerners westerners westerners erners gave them the cash When the check reached Salt Lake it was declared to be a forgery toy by b the officials of or Walker Brothers bank and was returned to New York The police were notified and after atter a careful exam examination examInation of the handwriting of each of the suspicion fell on Graham He was accused of forging the check and he broke down and confessed He said that the forgery was made to cov coy cover cover coyer er a deficit In the account of Alfred Burrows who had overdrawn about 1 Daly is said to have discovered I Ithe the overdraft but followed the monition of Graham to keep still and in that way entered into irto the conspiracy n |