Clyde Blanchard, proprietor of the Belvedere Hotel here, by his persistent efforts, was the cause of bringing to the bar of justice J.W. McFarland, aged 40 years, of Durham, who was charged with obtaining money under false pretense. McFarland has been bound over to Superior court under a bond of $500 following his arrest in Durham at the instigation of Mr. Blanchard, one of the victims of the fllim-flam trick said to have been worked by the man last July.
Since the stunt was pulled on him last July, Mr. Blanchard has kept a weather eye out for the man and it was last week that a person in Lynchburg, Va., advised the hotel man that McFarland was located in Durham. Mr. Blanchard went to Durham, succeeding in locating his man and his subsequent return of him for trial.
The story told last July was:
That after reserving seven rooms for himself and six other men whom he said would arrive to work tfor the Birmingham Construction Company, McFarland is said to have attempted to cash a draft at the hotel and to have succeeded in securing from a clerk of the hotel $10 upon representation tat the manager had okayed the advance. He is then said to have picked up a suit case in the lobby and to have carried it to his room and rifled it and to have visited a local clothing store and but for the fact that a suit which he selected needed alterations would have gotten away with that.
From the front page of the Reidsville Review, Wednesday, Dec. 12, 1923
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