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SELF-OOSFESSED BOGUS CHECKT' OPEBATOB sentenced;' ; BY JUDGE OGDON.Siia.10 PRISONElattingly Enters TCca of Guilty, H ^ He Wanted the Money toi'J- Fay Off Mortige.riiti:For forging the name of Franki • ' iEmmick to a worthless check for. y41-50 which he attempted to cosh Sijt the Peoples National bank, Dan-;ilei Pi Mattingly, a farmer living near aCiimbock, must serve a sentence offrom two to fourteen years in the state prison ati Michigafa City.judge Ogdon pronounced sentence ^on Mattingly when he was arraigned! in the circuit court at 3:15 o’clock; Wednesday afternoon. The charge^ was forgery and W. H. Kiefer, clerK £ of the court, read the affidavit to { Mattingiy. “I done it, judge,” Mat- t tingly replied when asked for hi.. ^ plea. “I needed the money to pa ( of£. the mortgage on my farm and :, ? thdught I could pay it hack before!( any one found-it out.’” Mattingly.^ said he was thirty-three years old { December 7. He has a wife and onu^ daughter, aged nine years. Judge^ Ogdon gave him some timely ud-jt vice concerning his conduct in prison, reminding the man that a good prison record usually wins liberty for a prisoner at the expiration of his minimum sentence.Bankers Detect Forgery.Officers at the bank suspected that a forgery had been committed when j l Mattingly presented the check to J ^ them. They got into elephone com-f, munication with Emmick, whose*;' name was signed to the paper anli: he immediately denied having issued i any check of the kind. The police department .was notified and Mattingly was arrested by Patrick tMc-Crisaken, chief of police. At the hank Mattingly represented that Emmick had. drawn the check In payment for cattle which Emmick had bought from him. ‘Emmick came to town during the afternoon and filed the affidavit against Mattingly.Sheriff Is Criticised.• Sheriff Harman . has been subjected to unfavorable criticism for his failure to-hold Mattingly until he could see his family. Over the protest of several persons who offered to pay for the services of a guard to watch the prisoner over night, Mr. Harman hurried'Matting-j ly to the B. 0. Southwesten sta- « tion as soon as the committal papers had been (prepared and they left for khe state prison at Michigan City at A o'clock, less than an hour after judge Ogdon har pronounced sentence. Mattingly pleaded to be per-jknitted to bid-his family farewell be-ifdre huN departure. The fact that the county jil is Quarantined -precluded the possibility of keeping the prisoner there until morning and /overruling -the petitions of numerous jpersons Mr. Harmon left with Mattingly on the first outgoing train.
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Washington Gazette
Washington, Indiana, US
Fri, Nov 21, 1913
Page 7
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