Show x 1 J. J r 1 T True rue a h Detec Detective ve Stories tones t x J BOLAND ALIAS f GARD GARDNER NER f fY f Y x H x HH K K KH Copyright by Th The Wheeler Syndicate Inc W WHEN lIEN HEN Hyman an and l Hess dealers dealer In n cloaks fund and suits on State street Alban Albany N N. N Y Y sent a check for to Eels and mum Blum garment manufacturers In New York city the they didn't have ha the slightest Idea Iden that they were starting a chain chah of evidence tt which would woul l land one o othe of the cleverest erest crooks crook In America behind the thc bars A few tew days das later before the New NewYork NewYork NewYork York firm had had time to report th the of ot the weck and thus permit permit per per- mit mil Hyman an and l Hess to look Into th the matter a n yo young ng man came Into th the National Commercial bank In Albany and presented a n check for tor made mad out to Dearer Bearer The date on th the check filled In with a rubber stamp corresponded to the day on which 1 it was as presented and the man who handed hand ed It to the paying teller mentioned casually that the check was to cover cove over an option an and l that he had to hurry back to New York In order to complete the transaction The paying teller feeling certain that the signature was genuine cashed the check and th the theman theman man who had hod presented It walked l ou out of the bank with SO In his pocket When Hyman and Hess had their ac nc- account count balanced the they found that the they were exactly short for for the tle origInal Inal check had never reached its Now No York destination but had been lifted out Iut of the mail mall box by one of a gang gan cf of clever criminals the body of th the check erased with an Ink eradicator eradicate and the date late and amount filled In on top of the original signature Only one man In the country could have e done that and gotten awa away with It growled George A. A Fuller assistant superintendent of the PInkerton Detec- Detec the agency when the bank called calle l th the details of the case to his attention Its Roland's Rolands work I 1 i Yes Roland Doland replied Fuller Or 0 Gardner as he sometimes calls him self lies He's got a regular organization f. f for r this sort of ot thing Trains boys bos t to loot cot the mall mail boxes washes the checkwith checks check with an nn acid preparation of his ow own invention writes In n a a. higher amount makes them payable to Bearer nn and then another of his tools cashes cashe them If It you ou know so much about th the theman theman man asked the amazed banker wh why hasn't he lie been arrested long before this 1 Its easy cas enough to arrest a man was Fullers Fuller's reply but It Is sometimes sometime very Cr difficult to convict him So far a athe as the actual raising check-raising goes Boland plays plus a n lone hand l. l What's more h he pays his men well an and l takes care o of them theta If It they happen to get caught S So Sotar Sotar tar far none of em has turned states state's evidence evl evl- evi- evi dence and until they the do door or or until w we catch Roland Doland han red handed red handed led theres there's theres nothIng nothing noth- noth Ing to do but but- be careful Weve We've go got our eyes ees on him He cant can't move more without without with with- out our knowing It Warned Warne l by Hyman Hman and Hess check that the Roland n l outfit wan WUl once more conducting operations In New York state the PInkerton man kept close watch on ou all persons suspected of belonging belonging be be- longing to the organizations with th the result that three m men n were arrested and sentenced sentence l to terms ferms in prison Ruall Ru Dut all aU of them steadfastly refused to m plicate the man higher up Finally Roland Doland and three of his as as- were arrested In Boston Doston aft er Fuller had shadowed a boy whom he suspected of or ro robbing a mall mail box Dano the boy and Devine another of the organization drew short terms for lor petty pett larceny but Roland Boland escaped escapee on account of a technicality anc an and J moved to New l York where he tried trie J to continue his operations But Rut the New York police and particularly Com Commissioner missioner George S. S Dougherty made things so difficult that he was soon reduced reduced reduced re re- re- re to the expedient of securing checks ks wherever te he e could could n a sty which le led l to the fatal slip which Fuller had predicted Out of the mall mail box of an town up-town apartment house one of Roland's Rolands ap op- a n check for 50 r- r 0 made out to a n real estate company In payment pay pa ment meat of the rental for tor one of the apart apart- ments ment It was childs child's ilIa play for Boland Roland to wash off oft the original name and amount and anel to write In the words Hundred and Dearer Bearer and Two Eleven Dollars Once that was done jone he had a perfectly good che check Sap Sap- apparently ap parenti and he hc sent nt one of his wen men doe rn dO n tine tiu bank on which the check checkas c-as c as drawn with with- minute Instructions as lS to the cashing of It Rut nut the cashier icing Being suspicious of a n check of that size being made out to par Dearer par particularly as he knew that the woman loose signature appeared upon It was wag very ery In leer fter cr financial dealings declined to cash it and Roland's Rolands man returned l with a story of having been watched an and l therefore very fearful fearful fear fear- ful to approach the paying window Roland Doland in a spirit of bravado again altered l the check this time making It out In the name of William Hath anti and set forth to cash the check himself himself him him- self something which he ha had l never nc b before fore attempted One glance at the O odd amount amount and the recollection c ton tion that a n check of similar size had been presented l that morning payable to Hearer Bearer was enough to convince the paying teller that something was wrong The Pinkertons were notified l and Roland Dolan l was caught red red-hande l. l Fifteen minutes after his case came c cam mt up tip In the County court In Brooklyn rooklyn Coif Boland oll n nd l was on his way to Sing Ing Bias |