Police Chase Nabs Forger
On Friday night, October 24, 1902, an informer passed information to Assistant Chief of Detectives James Smith. S. J. Schultze & Co., a St. Louis printing firm, received an order from a stranger in town to print checks for the Elgin City Banking Company of Elgin, Illinois. The informant doubted the checks were actually destined for a real bank. Assistant
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