FORGERY PLOT IN
FEDERAL PRISON
Gigantic Swindle Operated From
Within Walls of Fort
Leavenworth.
SCORE UNDER ARREST
Gubtreasury Checks and Checks on
Private Concerns Printed in Prison j
Printing Office — Confession
Reveals Amazing Plot
Chicago.—An amazing story of for
gery and counterfeiting, carried on by
a band of 25 men in the federal prison
in Fort Leavenworth, was revealed >
In this city through the arrest of sev- '
*ral of the participants.
The arrests, which were made after
six weeks’ work by Peter Drautzberg
and W. G. Harper, assistants to Capt.
Thomas I. Porter, chief of the Chicafcc
district of the United States secret
service, turned up the entire conspir
acy.
The forgery, from which perhaps
$100,000 has been realized through the
use of many names of prominence, in
volved the printing of 1,000 subtreasury
checks, calling for $100 each, as well
as checks on private concerns, such
as the United Fruit company of New
Orleans. The printing of these was
done in the prison printing office at
Fort Leavenworth.
Also Forged Letterheads.
In order to get paper on which to
print the private checks the prisoners
had to obtain supplies of t^e best bank
paper. So they wrote for samples to
the leading supply houses of the coun
try.
On a large number of the phony
checks the name “C. Skelton Williams”
was written. These checks passed
more readily than any, it being hastily
assumed by the recipient that it was
drawn at the instance of John Skelton
Williams, high treasury official.
The denouement came through the
arrest of an innocent man, a former
soldier who had been a prisoner, but
who, it developed, had taken no part
In the swindle. This youth was seized
on the complaint of a St. Louis busi
Printed in Prison Printshcp.
ness man who met him the train.
He was chummy and told all about
himself to his chance acquaintance,
and it was no trouble to find him in
Chicago after the St. Louisan learned
the check he had cashed wras bogus.
On being questioned by Drautzberg
he convinced the operative he was in
nocent of actual complicity. While
walking along the street with the
youth after he had been freed Drautz
berg opened a letter he had just re
ceived from Kansas City. A photo
graph dropped out.
“Why, that’s Bob Jones,’’ the youth
said.
Grab the Star Trusty.
Drautzberg read the letter and it
called for the arrest of Robert Jones
as one of the ringleaders. The youth
0 knew where Jones was and steered
Drautzberg to him.
Jones had been a star trusty—he
wore a star that passed him through
all departments of Uie prison. After
his arrest at 1G8 Hill street he con
fessed and implicated 15 to 20 men.
Among these were Arthur Matheson,
1937 North Marshfield avenue; Alfon
so Jones, a colored man, and Joe Wil
son. They were all held in $10,000
bonds each.
The checks have been passed pro
miscuously in all parts of the country.
A dispatch from New York told of
the arrest there of Ralph Yaserberg, a
lieutenant, who, it was said, escaped
in a major’s uniform from Leaven
worth and cashed forged checks in
many cities.
Stole a Headstone.
Eugene, Ore.—For many years E. C.
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thought no one would steal tombstones.
Recently he reported to the police that
a headstone had been stolen. It was a
stone without marking, and Lake said
he believed the person who took it was
preparing for a future decoration of
his own grave.
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