“Booths Foreman Was Bold Thief,” Cobalt Daily Nugget. August 4, 1910. Page 7. ---- John Heroux was Sentenced to Three Years --- North Bay, Aug. 4— John Heroux, who has a wife and four children in the township of Field, north of Sturgeon Falls, was sentenced to three years in Kingston penitentiary by Magistrate Bradford at Sturgeon Falls on charges of forgery, perjury and theft. Crown Attoney Browning prosecuted. Heroux was a jobber for J. H. Booth and organised a cunning system of “fraudulent time checks” forged by his clerk, Herman Lavoie, under his orders. About two hundred dollars was secured in this way and so bold did Heroux become at the game that one of dummy workmen instituted lien proceedings against the Booth firm and Heroux swore that the account was due. The company did not dispute that the work had been done but that the logs had been cut in the wrong places. This action was heard in the division court and the clerk went into the box and acknowledges that the work had not been done at all. This led to Investigation and the criminal charge followed Lavoie was also charged with forgery but in his case sentence was suspended.
