#bogus cheque

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"BOGUS CHEQUE ARTIST GOES TO PENITENTIARY," Weekly British Whig. December 19, 1921. Page 7. --- John A. Clark Sentenced to Two Years by Police Magistrate Farrell. ---- John A. Clark, who pleaded guilty a week ago to passing a bogus cheque on Arthur Horwitz, of the Lion clothing store, came up again in the police court on Friday morning and pleaded guilty to two other charges of a similar nature. Magistrate Farrell imposed a sentence of two years in the Portsmouth penitentiary on one charge, two years on another, and one year on a third, sentence to run concurrently.

Clark admitted passing a worthless cheque for $15 on James Hounslow, a Barrie street butcher. He also put over a bogus cheque on T. J. O'Connor.

Magistrate Farrell said he had found that this was not the first of- fence of this kind Clark had committed. He had apparently been in the game before, and it now looked as if he was going into it on a whole- sale basis, as there were a series of charges against him.

Ivan Burns, on remand for two weeks, and who is alleged to be the "Jack the Hugger," who has been annoying women and young girls in various parts of the city, was further remanded for a day.

[Clark was 24, married, from the area, a factory worker, and had been in the local jail before. He was convict #H-986 and worked in the machine shop. He was paroled in December 1924.]

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“Gave Delivery Boy Bogus $10 Cheque,” Toronto Star. April 13, 1932. Page 5. ----- Two Men Rook Druggist’s Messenger of $8.75 --- Two flim-flamers victimized 14-year-old Michael Szoldra, messenger for Halpern’s drug store, 472 College St., last night by confusing the lad when he made a delivery to them. The boy gave them $3.75 and the goods ordered in exchange for a bogus cheque.

The order for a one-dollar bottle of cod liver oil and a package of cigarettes came to the store by telephone and was accompanied by the instructions to give the boy change for a $10 bill. Szoldra told police that when he arrived at the side door to 505 College St., one of two men stepped out of the doorway and tendered the cheque, asking him for the change and the goods.

The boy became ruffled and complied with the command. Another man was waiting inside the door, he said. Police said the cheque seemed to have been written by an untutored man and was made out to ‘Mr. Niebel’ and signed ‘George Goddard.’ Detective-Sergeants Frank Crowe and William McAllister investigated.