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IS RUN TO EARTH■oJ ■ , .U. S. Agents Take Man and js, Woman as Gang Members,\' _EI8HT OTHERS ARE HUNTEDMoney Order Blanks Stolen from 8ub*tationa—Passed by Feminine Members of Band—Gang Got f . Cver $50,000.Chicago, Oct. 22.— Postal authorities arrested a man and a woman alleged members of a gang of post a 1 money order thieves and forgery who are said to have passed hundreds of forged orders amounting to more than $50,000 in various parts of the I’nited States. Mrs Edna Phillips 1005 La 8alle avenue, was taken into custody by Inspectors Germer and Otto and Thomas J Sharum, alias ' I lltlo Jeff Davis, was arrested by authorities at Crown Point, Ind , as ringleaders of a band of ten who are said to have operated in bogus money ordt rs for over a yearWoman Said to Have Confessed The woman is declared by postal Inspectors to have confessed the forgery plot She told the posial in spectors, it Is said t ft at no order was forged for less than $50 Several him dred of them $vere j assrd in 1111no*s towns, Bbe Baicf. but few were In c r-culation in ( hicago.The entire postofhee department has been searching for the alleged forgor« for months Eight other members of the alleged band are being sought Two of them are said to We women Substations Are Robbed The frauds are Bald to huve been the most extensive the postofhee department has ever experienced Hun di*ed8 of forged money orders, rang Ing In denomination from $50 to $100 are In possession or the government They were stolen through a scheme conceived of robbing outhing drug stores where substations are located Many padB of money order blanks have been secured In a number of cities and subsequently forged postal orders have been turned into the i ost offices of the countryThrough various clever ruses the money orders have been circulated around the country At Niagara Palls, it Is declared, the band secured $5,000 on the forged orders Others were pfffcsed in Indianapolis Gan. South Bend and Fort Wayne Ind EvanBton, Rock Island and Joliet, III , San Francisco, Gal , Milwaukee, Wis.; St. I.ouis. Mo, and other places.Women Cash the OrdersThe men are declared to have stolen pads of blank orders, prepared them and turned them over to the Womeh members to be cashedGeneral James E. Stuart chief post office Inspector, who has been con ducting the investigation of the op eratlons of the band, declared that the catch is the most important made by the authorities In years
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Sterling Daily Standard
Sterling, Illinois, US
Tue, Oct 22, 1912
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