From the Lincoln Times, as
reprinted in The Eagle, Cherryville, N.C., August 7, 1919
Four local business houses showed absolute confidence in
their fellow man Saturday and as a result their bank deposits Monday morning
were a trifle lighter.
Representing himself as a local citizen and using the names
of several well-known Lincoln County citizens, the light-fingered artist who
passed the bogus checks had no trouble in convincing local merchants that those
he had to cash were perfectly all right, and but for the fact that the ball
game had interfered with his plans, they would have been cashed at the local
banks during the afternoon.
The story which seemed perfectly plausible took well and as
a result the stranger carried away about $50 in cash of our now wiser
merchants.
The incident has been reported to the local authorities and
from descriptions given it is expected that the guilty man will be apprehended.
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