Show SWINDLING BY BOGUS DRAFTS K the police think they have uncovered systematic swindling r philadelphia sept 6 5 after the fir ar rost of robert eltson of this city today the pollee police think they have nila unc una robed EL a gigantic system ot of swindling by bogus drafts printed in the name of eleven cloven different national banks in louisville boston milwaukee indian apolla chicago and on five banks in N w york city last week littion R ason c e billed at the printing house of 0 william ion boccher beecher and representing him it as the agent ot of EL canceling punch fill 01 the banking houses negotiated this the F p inting of several thousand Nal national lonal b checks which he sad lie he meant to tf use une in advertising his patent he it et ct an order for or the printing and furnished the firm with a stereotyped fac alelle of 0 a cashiers draft in which the name of the th bank was mort iced and auld not be changed in addition to the printing print lne of 0 the checks in black from the cut furnished he ordered that the name of the banks that were corre of the bank on which the checks purported to be should be printed d IQ in red ink I 1 the checks as then produced would he be an imitation of the origin originals a Is used by the banks the list of which lie he pro po p o aided the printers Rit sons subsequent actions his nervousness to have tha have work finished aroused suspicions 0 so find and they notified captain miller of the case tho the scented an attempt at wholesale passage pos of fraudulent checks and nd at once detailed detectives tate and whitcomb who went to the printers and awaited the arrival of eltson tor for the checks they did not have long to watt wait before their man arrived and be was taken into custody he insisted that he represented a punch luring firm and had tho the checks printed to uso use in his business questioning jell him to admit that he had not been selling punches for over a year 4 he stated also that he had sol d ili a punch to the third national mr dr last cas cashier of that bank nias as in captain millers room at the tao time the statement was waa made jt it was war promptly branded as a falsehood P P the police are of the opinion that lit he and others entered on st mchenr elof 1 of wholesale forgery tha ills mili mail arity larity with the banking business lp its this city Is apparent from the fact that he be selected proper foreign correspondents of the banks in this city whose names were on oil the face of at the checks ritson was held in ball to answer the charge of conspiracy with unknown persons by means of borus bogus chocks checks vui |