Typed as spelled and written
- Lena Stone Criswell

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT
Thirty-First Year - Number 83
Marlin, Texas, Friday, August 7, 1931

A NICE LOOKING YOUNG MAN
GETS IN HIS WORK IN MARLIN

After Several Unsuccessful Attempts
He Gets Check Endorsed, Cashes
it and Skips.

       Press reports from Belton Thursday said officers there were looking for a "nice looking young man" who had successfully worked a check racket on a Belton business man and disappeared.
       This description fits a young man, well dressed, who operated in Marlin Thursday by getting cashed a check drawn on a Gonzales bank and signed F. E. Miller.
       He appeared at a number of boarding and rooming houses ostensibly for the purpose of securing a room, in each instance offering a check in payment
       After repeated efforts he secured an endorsement of a check with the proceeds of which he would return and pay for the room.  The room just suited him and he would go and get his baggage, etc. and would be right over.  He proposed to pay $20 down on the room, which "was just what he had been looking for," but in order to pay, he kindly asked the landlady to endorse the check.
       A local bank cashed the check "and the nice looking young man" disappeared.

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