Friday, March 28, 2025

Horsburgh Being Brought Back to Face Forgery, Embezzlement Charges, March 29, 1925

Fayetteville to Bring Back Young Forger. . . Robert M. Horsburgh, Defaulting Chamber of Commerce Secretary, Is Caught in Memphis, Tenn.

International News Service

Fayetteville, March 28—Warrants were issued today by directors of the Prince Charles Hotel company here charging forgery and embezzlement against young Robert M.M. Horsburgh, former secretary of the Fayetteville chamber of commerce and of the hotel corporation, who has been missing since January and who, it was learned today, has been located in Memphis, Tenn.

Horsburgh was working for the Salvation Army in Memphis under an assumed name, according to information reaching here.

He is now on his way from Memphis to Asheville with his brother-in-law, and Sheriff N.H. McGeachy has communicated with authorities there to hold him for Cumberland county officers.

From the front page of the Durham Sun, Sunday morning, March 29, 1925

newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn84020732/1925-03-29/ed-1/seq-1/#words=MARCH+29%2C+1925

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