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Woman Strange in Cash From Business Houses. checks were cashed Forged Friday by three Mattoon last stores for strange, dark complexioned, plainly dressed woman who had made purchases before presenting her worthless All the checks were repaper. turned by the Central Illinois Trust and Savings Bank, after in turn had received them they back from the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. One the checks cashed was Gross one by Mrs. Herron for $24.50, and one by Yaden for $27.50. An attempt was made by the woman pass check Reynolds, grocer, South Seventeenth street, but failed. On Urbana Firm. Evidently the checks are being put by an organization of check passAll were written on crudely printblanks with rubber type bers stamped in the upper left hand corner, and bear the words: "Urbana, Dec. 1927. Sowers Corkey, Contractors and Builders." They are drawn on First State Bank of Urbana," bank which was closed last July. said the woman passed all the checks late on Friday afternoon, when the banks were closed. At the Herron place purchase of was made, and the woman was given $15.05 change. At the Gross store the purchase was $4, and $24.50 change and the Yaden store the chase was $3 and $24.50 change given the woman the forged On purchasing small bill ceries the Reynolds grocery presented the check, which Reynolds suspected, and asked man to secure good endorser or else the cashed elsewhere. The woman then asked him to hold the goods and she would get the check cashed and return for the groceries.
Woman Gets $64.05 in Cash. All the victims have forged checks the same kind. The Federal ReBank had slips stating that the bank in question had been closed. Sowers Corkey of Urbana replied telephone inquiries that they had nevissued such checks, which purported bear the signature of W. Sowand were endorsed by Clark," which the name the woman gave. The woman secured and three the discovery of the forgeries not made known until today. there said to be little likelihood apprehending the she stranger.
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