A bad check was passed at the Hotel Koppenhaver in Millersburg, on January 23, 1912. The First National Bank cashed the check, which was for $45. Later it was learned that the check was drawn on a roofing company that didn’t exist. After detectives arrived in Millersburg to investigate, it was learned that the same thing had happened in other towns along the Susquehanna River.
The story is from the Lykens Standard, March 22, 1912, which repeated it from a recent edition of the Millersburg Sentinel:
Stranger Had Bad Check
On January 23rd [1912] a man signing his name as C. H. Culner registered at the Hotel Koppenhaver in this city [Millersburg].
The next day he asked J. Roy Feeser the hotel clerk, to have a check for $45 cashed for him. The check was drawn on the Excelsior Roofing Company, of Charlotte, North Carolina, and in no wise indicated that it was spurious.
Upon Mr. Feeser’s indorsement the First National Bank cashed the check. It is now learned that no such roofing company exists. The matter has been given over to the Pinkerton National Detective Agency of Philadelphia, and on Tuesday, Mr. Alfred A. Eften, assistant superintendent of agency was in Millersburg, and reported that the stranger worked his game in many towns along the Susquehanna River.
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