Salt Lake Telegram | 1925-10-29 | Page 3 | Forbes Case Witness Held

F ASE 1 WITNESS HElD i I I I f Mortimer Faces aces a ad Check ec Charge ar e NEW YORK Yon Oct ct 29 9 AD AP AP-Ac- Ac Accused Ac of ca cashing a bad check for tor ion ton a bank In the Bahamas Bahama Elias Ellas P P. Mortimer chief government govern govern- ment witness against Charles Re nIt K- K Forbes In the veterans veterans' j e It bureau scandal has haR been arrested and andi r released leased on ball I who was Vas one of oC three l I witnesses against Representative John W W. Langley of oC Kentucky when the the latter Jatter was convicted con l of ot withdrawing withdrawing with with- I drawing liquor Illegally said ts by Charles les E E. Disbrow manager of oC hotel to 10 have indorsed I and cashed on January 5 5 1924 a n I check which was signed by bl Michael Morrison The man who tc Mild old a a. government commute committees that hIs work drew him whets where the sp largest and who had boasted that he bore a charmed harmed life Ute struck a 0 asnag snag in the indorsing of that check for lor months later ater It camo came back from the Nassau Nassau Nas Nu- sau saul branch of oC the Royal bank of oC Canada marked Insufficient funds The Tb American consul at Nassau reported re reported re- re ported that Morrison who was or or- or named l accordIng according accordIng accord- accord Ing to the police pollee had only three I shillings In the tho bank at tho the time the they check was was' drawn Morrison police sa say hi has bas li been convicted of oC bootlegging booties told tho the police pollee that when ho cashed the chec check Mortimer represented represented represented rep rep- resented himself as the husband of ofa ofa a a. niece of oC President Harding When en Mortimer was as arrested In his office yesterday he protested that us as president of oC the Ocean Steamship Steamship Steamship Steam Steam- ship company he be would bo be dis- dis graced During Durin the investigation of ot the veterans veterans' bureau by the tho senate Mortimer testified as to alleged schemes to loot toot a appropriation appropriation ap ap- ap- ap for Cor wounded soldiers of activities among the socially and politically prom prominent In Washington Washing claimed c ton and of oC a bribe he claimed to to Forbes the drummer drummer drummet drum drum- mer met boy of ot the marine corps who bec became me a colonel and then head hend of oC the veterans' veterans bureau r. r