Man Arrested At New Orleans

MAN ARRESTED AT NEW ORLEANS

For working same kind of game as "check" Davis,

WHO DID UP ANN ARBOR. 

A photography and description is now on its ways for identification.

President Booth, of the State Savings Bank, has received a copy of the Mankato Daily Review of last Tuesday, giving an account of the workings of Davis, the check fraud, who worked two of our merchants for about $100, in Mankato, Minn. After leaving here and before going to Mankato, Minn, he worked the same game in Oshkosh, Wis., and he has been drawing checks on the State Savings Bank from a number of other places.

In Mankato he is described as "Harry D. Baker, plain of dress and smooth of speech, with an eye out for victims. He was an ordinary appearing mortal, and would not attract much attention in a crowd. But the manner in which he transacted business created the impression that he is something of a whirlwind. Baker made arrangements to purchase several farms, rented a house, bought goods and did business at banks, all in the space of a few hours. The way he threw out checks calling for large sums dazzled the bank tellers, and he was looked upon as a man who had just cut a slice off of Vanderbilt's millions." His graft was paying for goods with checks and getting cash in change.

A long two-column article in the Mankato paper describes his operations there, which were exactly similar to those here. He went to the First National Bank and deposited three checks for collection, one of which was for $1,198.24 on the State Savings Bank of Ann Arbor. The other two were for $5,000 and $676.60. He bought a farm of the bank president at $200 an acre. He said he had always wanted to settle in Mankato, that he had not been there for 14 years and was simply delighted with the changes which had taken place. He was about to settle down and take life easy. He bought goods and offered checks. One firm called up a bank and was advised to telegraph the State Savings Bank at Ann Arbor. The bank immediately telegraphed that Davis, or Baker, was a fraud, and asked his arrest. But the wily check passer seemed to be on to the telegraphing, and vanished. He paid his bill at the hotel in money, and seemed to have plenty of cash.

Saturday Cashier Booth learned that a man had been arrested in New Orleans, where the same kind of a game had been worked. He telegraphed, and the officials there answered that they would forward him a photograph and description.