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Show STE'W TOES, Son 2i: TtrM mam br f dTer aa;.cf . forgers .d cided in the midst' ef their trial yev trdy to- plead jruflty to target ia th second degrse. Tha pntoaeit were Thomas McCarthy, hij wife, Annie, and Thorcas 8. Ehadd, a foraer net-sender net-sender employed by the Bank of .Tew SYoxk. They will be sentenced oa Friday. Fri-day. . ., . ; r : . . Charles Mnntwyler, who wi the t . 1 . .... head of the Ring and -who enirlneered the systsm ef forgeries, -turned State's evidence. ASTien the original rrests were made last summer, 'Muatwyler fled to Chicago, but was recaptured there. While, .beiwr brought . back by a detective de-tective he esedirom-atraia"at "Buffalo.. "Buf-falo.. He was. caught again soon:aiter bis escape The forgery of the gang was-1 well conceived.- Shadd,vaS a bank mesaeu-ger, mesaeu-ger, often was intrusted with checks.. These 'he took to Muntwyier, -who-would trace the signature on blank checks. Several thousand dollars wera obtained by the gang in this wa. and in addition $4000 was secure.! by copying copy-ing the photographs inthe newspapers of signatures on checks given by those who subscribed the "funds for the Sin JTrancisco sufferers. The methods of this gang of. forgers were discovered by the nolice in the i nick of time, for they had made arrangements, ar-rangements, it has been stated, for additional ad-ditional forgeries amounting to nearly $200,000. .. ... |