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Man Charged With $10,000 Forgery by Ridgeville Automobiles
Otis L. Watkins, about 30, manager and director of Co-Operative Sales and Service Corp., Ridgeville, was arrested Monday afternoon by Deputy Sheriff Chas. Crum on charges of forging nine local residents names to notes totaling $10,000. Forged names include Ernest Strine and Spurrier Norwood among others. Watkins allegedly signed contracts and promissory notes to the Co-Operative Sales Corporation and endorsed them to the Commercial Credit Company of Baltimore. Also accused of signing names to a guaranty contract and to a Mt. Airy bank cashier, with an automobile delivery tied to the alleged fraud. The firm, a Ridgeville garage in business about a year, faces no preliminary hearing date yet. Joe Weinberg represents the automible corp.
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Otis L. Watkins
Co- Operative Sales and Service Corporation
Ridgeville
Sherif Chas
W.W. Crum
Ernest Strine
John Sewell
Iman Beck
Spurrier Norwood
Thrace D. Spurrier
Raymond Spurriey
Co-Operative Sales Corporation
Commercial Credit Company of
Baltimore
Charles E. Woole
Charles A. Ogle
Mt. Airy
Commercial State Bank
Corporation
Morris Watkins
Browningsville
Watkins
Joe Weinberg
The
Automobile Corporation