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FORGERY CASEDEVELOPS HEREIllegal Paper is Passed on TwoDelphi Merchants.PAROLED CRIMINAL CONNECTEDName of Prominent Fanner Appearson Check.' ■(■A second forgery case within -only a few weeks, has developed in this city in which Charles Brock, of Flora, was arrested Tuesday morning by Delphi authorities on a charge of having pass-, ed a forged check on the clothing firmof Charles Benjamin Co.It appears that Brock came to thiscity on Saturday of last week, and, at the Benjamin clothing store purchased an overcoat which he paid for with a check calling for $28, receiving .in change, $18. The paper was later presented at the Citizens’ National bank where the signature of John Davis which appeared on the check, was pronounced a forgery. Brock returned to Delphi again on Tuesday and’ in a similar way purchased of the Boothroyd Monument Company a tumb-stone at a cost of $40, which was paid for with a check bearing the signature of W. E. Smith, also pronounced to be a forgery. He was later located at the Higginbotham jewelry store wherehe was placed under arrest. .It will be remembered that oft May31, 1904, Charles Brock was sentencedby the Carroll circuit court to the reformatory at Jeffersonville on a similar charge. He was later paroled after having served four years of his time at that institution. Superintendent Whittaker, of the prison south was informed Tuesday of the trouble which Brock♦had gotten into, and ordered his return to that institution at once. He was returned to Jeffersonville yesterday morning.
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Delphi Journal
Delphi, Indiana, US
Thu, Feb 25, 1909
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