Show SHERIFF HERE HOLDS WOMAN ON COMPLAINT OF HOTEL MAN MANCheck Check Given to Hermitage Declared of Xo No K 0 Value TO c T RECORD Came Caine Here as a ta i ye of Sc Se 1 I in Arrested on a charge of passing a fictitious check of on the Her ten Hermitage Hermitage hotel Miss E. E Taylor of Mont- Mont Montclair clam clair N. N J J. J was placed in custody this morning by Sheriff who ho has started investigation of a na national ns- ns national tangle of banking operations o which it is believed the woman car car- carried carried ried ned on en under various other names Fictitious checks amounting to more than 2000 are being investigated Im these th e having been passed in cities from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast Miss MIs Taylor who ho came to Oden ostensibly as es a solicitor for the Beth Beth- Bethlehem B Bethlehem th- th lehem Preparatory school at Bethle Bethle- Bethlehem Bethlehem hem Pa became acquainted with a a. number ot oX Jewish people and enter enter- entertained entertaIned a n group at the Hermitage hotel soon scon after her arrival On Monday afternoon after aider she had given a check to W. W W W. Wilson manager ot of the Hermitage In pay pay- payment ment mend of her bill it is understood that she made reservations to continue her Journey to Yellowstone National paik Wilson took the precaution of tele tele- telegraphing telegraphing graphing to the Peoples People's National bank at Montclair N. N J J. J on which the check cheek was drawn to ascertain whether er Cr the check was good Upon reedy reedy- receiving receivIng ing a reply that the woman had no account there he informed the sher sher- sherlie iff lie Miss Silas Taylor was taken into cus cus- custody tody but without charges being filed on Monday Investigation I followed e 1 The charges were filed this morning by Wilson who signed a complaint on which an arrest warrant was based CHECKBOOKS FOUND In taking possession of Miss SIlas Tay lors lor's property a number of check check- checkbooks checkbooks checkbooks books were found In her handbag These were Issued in various arlous names and by banks of various cities Tele Tele- Telegrams Telegrams Telegrams grams were immediately forwarded to the various cities and this morning Sheriff received replies Miss Taylor has claimed that the check check- checkbooks checkbooks books were the property of friends with whom she had been traveling and who had placed them In her care That these friends friends- had left for the east was seas her her- assertion The same names that were Iere used for check book issue were signed to fictitious checks received In eastern cities according to the telegrams t received by the sheriff After Investigation of ot the records In Taylors Taylor's handbag and the telegrams Sheriff Sherif Pin cock said he would continue Investigation to ascertain If It Mss Taylor is not also E. E Cowan who started a bank ac account ac- ac account account count at Montclair New Jersey on oa April 16 by Issuing a fictitious check for on the Peoples People's State Stale bank of o Detroit and later laler issued checks in Newark New Jersey under the same name and also whether she is not the same person who Issued checks for and under the tho name of E H. Knapp on the Mississippi Valley Trust company at St. St Louis Lows Mo and drawn on the First National bank at St. St Louis as well as checks check for 50 on the Hotel San Carlos at nt Monterey Calif and on th Bank of Italy at Los Angeles OTHER OIliER REPORTS The sheriff is also investigating re reports ye- ye reports ports that fictitious checks were passed in other cities and that the oman woman traveling under the name of E. E Hard and E. E Knapp had been at Portland Ore Hood Riser RI Ore and many oth oth- other other er en cities Search of Miss Taylors Taylor's pa papers pa- pa papers pers pens showed calling cards address slips flips and receipted bills from various parts of the United through which Sheriff PIDcock worked out a route he ho says may have ha been tra traveled by the woman in coming to Ogden O den starting at Montclair N. N J J. then New New- Newark Newark ark St. St Louis Lauis New Orleans Los An An- Angeles geles gebes Monterey Oakland Portland Hood iced River and Ogden One of the telegrams received by Sheriff stated that the Beth Beth- Bethlehem Bethlehem lehem Ie hem school had been closed for two to years ears having been operated under the supervision of J. J M. M One of the documents in Miss Tay Tay- Taylor's Taylors Taylors Taylor's lors lor's handbag was a contract for a real estate deal In St. St LoWs Louis Mo an option payment of ot being shown We will make a thorough In Investigation tion of this entire case said Sheriff Sherin this morning Miss Taylor claims that she did not issue any tic fic fictitious check chek although she acknowledges acknowledges edges that she did not have hn money monel in inthe Inthe inthe the Montclair bank to cover cr the check Issued to the Hermitage hotel How JIow- However ever there are plenty of tangles In ir f rean en this care c and there seems e s to be lots more Deere as we receive recel telegrams We will provide information as far fu as possible to the other cities where checks have been passed under the names of E E. Hard lard E E. Knapp and E. E Cowan and will of course prosecute the case In Ogden under this one charge and per per- perhaps p perhaps r- r haps under a second for we under under- understand understand understand stand another check cheek for a amount was issued by Miss Taylor Ta lor |