The evening world. Newspaper, June 28, 1905, Page 10

g Story of ile 1 the Pen- man’’ of Fiction Paral- .leled by History of a Young Lawyer’s Absorp- tion of Aged Recluse’s Property by Forged Deeds, Witnessed and Attested by Himself,| with Name of His Fa- ther Imitated in No- tary’s Signature. “Jim the Penmann" fever more accurately por: than in the case of 1 8) Alderdice, who to-day postponement until Mriday of his sen- fence to Sing Sing Prison for forging he name of Mrs, Mary J. Oliver :o jeeds of property and hereby fig from the old recluse $800,000, The cage, In a rem similar to that of Albert who ts now awaiting death in SI for the murder of William M. Whore signature he forged to checks for several hundred thousand dollars dmmediately after he had hurried the Old man into his grave with the ald of chloroform, In Too Much of a Hurry. In both cases, death and clever pen- manship on the same day played a prominent part in the crime, In eac Case haste to forge the signature after tthe death of the principal caused the fetection of the crime and the con viction of the criminal. The death of Mrs, Oliver and that of Alderdice’s father almost at the sam fn flotion was ‘ayed Jn real wyer James close to hour and under such suspicious cir cumstances at first led the District-At- torney to seriously consider trying Alderdice for murder. 1t was only the Question of the cost of the trial to the} county that kept such a course from | belug pursued, The forgery case was | @o clear that the prosecution was sure of @ conviction, It took Alderdice only a year to ace | fi quire all of old Mrs, Oliver's estate, | He was not satisfied witn a fair snare of the property, He wanted it all, In this ambition he was successful, He secured a | obtains | Rice, FLARE OLIVER. he be out bank ol by which li The lawyer wis Penman" that. while cleverest handwr Positively testity that forged de of James Ald they euuld not did dt, though ce stef no one Mary d the alleged rot @idn't leave enough to pay the old Dadenaiver w ‘Woman's funeral exvenses, | fe ames Alderdi A Woman Dummy, To further his schemes A‘erdice transferred the property elther to his| sister, Mary Blizubeth Alderdice, or to Mra, Lydia B, Koch, a client who is in the insurance busineas in Pine street, Mra. Koch acted as a dummy for the lawyer without knowing tnat he was | forging his father’s name to all of the eds of transfer of Mrs, Oliver's estate, t one transaction alone Alderdice Pained $4,951 on a forged decd, To this, @s in all tho other cases, Alderdice forged not only Mrs, Oliver's name, but) also that of his father. When the check was paid to Mrs. Koch she In- @orsed it over to Alderdice. The check formed part of the Jnteresting exhibits @t the trial. ‘Where this modern Jim the Penman overstepped himself was in the use of eradicating acids on the deeds when the first trial of a signature did not | auit him. He failed to remember that | while these acids take from the paper all traces of the ink, the eradication ts merely temporary, Within twelve or | fourteen months at the most the Ink | will appear agaatn, Acid Betrayed Him. The name of the fathor an James, ih the fh gf perfect) was a dif y prove that the lawyer hod written his. ta = nam on all the ds. At the tral he ad nd that he had signed the name of Alderdice as Commissioner of to opher pay Hs cross-ox- amt dy Distitot: Attorney and pation bye on thls subject made him pity n shown a bond ‘ile Guarantes and HIS LOVE POETRY BASIS OF A SUIT FOR $25,000. : Miss Beate Bases Claim Tetters Jaden with An enlarged reproduction of one of the forgeries of the signature of elder Alderdice shows plainly that a was used to eradicate the frst tri the signature to the deed, ‘Thi ‘one of the strongest points of the ecution, The discovery of the e c was made by Lawyer Hiram M, Kirk, of No. 19 Fulton street, who is now | uing Alderdice's sister to recover th estate of old Mrs, Oliver for helrs, Her personal proper: lone $8 Worth 50,000, Alderdice's sister claims that too, She declares that it was given to her fhther before his death Mrs Oliver, In all there are five sulis pend t and in each one Alderdico’s sister 4g represented by her brother as the counsel, While the above tells briefly in a gor eral way how Alderdice short ecarcer of crime, ‘work read Ike fiction, Alderdice is about el and a cripple. He wears a piel @hoe on the right foor, who know him can tell you the color of his eyes, THe was never known to look any one equarely in the fee, His eyes are always shifting. Habits Were Good. No one could tind fault with the bat- ite of Alderdice, Ife doesn't drink, or does he smoke. W! he did with all Ot cld Mrs, Oliver's money no one Knows, His sister still has a bie pa Of It. While Alderdice was carrying Bis forgeries he lived a simple lifts. evidently had some plain in mind } ‘which he hoped to enjoy the money for ite. James Alderdice forger, was an c land. “He was © operated the de thirty-fve years the faty ueelist, born {1 d by the Me dist Church to peddle bibles, For Work ho received $00 a mouth. Mr - @etdice was also an evangelist. Twen- tyiyears ago, when the family came here, they began their church work with Btephen Merritt. ur rer the premises at No, 229 second aiue from Mrs. Oliy: was the Deginning of the intimacy of the two familles und the inital point log Alderdice'’s criminal career Wamacy between the two f the gon exceptional opportys ing all about the affairs vo: weoluse, Mrs, Oliver, Ho laid go well that the trusting old tu. ie q@uspected he wax wcheming to acquire gil her property. Used His Father, THis firat step was to have hie ¢ inted a Commissioner of Dox he elder Alderdice took hiv outh AMfoe in the City Clerk's office on Ap 1908. py eeteatt showed that t ther the o1 person of th, who had over taken the ‘oatirse A Commissioner of Decds, the son began to an property of Mrs, Olive next-door neixlibor and that Tew persons | the} the Aldor | fan to practise could no longer puy ty attentions to » and endearn gamut of th most ver's emotlo fervent the newly-a less confess! free,” form the ome am not $25,000 breach-of-pt Milas Rerenieo Fried) der And highly educated governess, througn the i David 'W. Rockmore, a Harmon Fromenson, edit in-c the Bnglish section of the Jew New ‘rliedlander came to twen! years old, was porn in! ome ay Ber Bitsehen, Germany, and and It paRseet uah well Vand pogsesve of hea plexlon, big bhick eyes admit: uidled yore until 1960, Saye She Accepted Him. | lates, she met A non From vot edi s oman thi n 8 vith a tal ented pen, a prominent moulder ag | thought gk OhIS: peop ak ealto' of the Jewish Daily Ne itor e Tolewder in the Ist Convention In | it was natural for hier tracted to the hiphly-edue | woman, In May, iv he jedlander, and was fixed, ac ft was agreed that would tuke place In the ye At that time Milas was governeas for the Dr. M, MacDonald, Su of the Manhattan State In n Ward's tsland In July, 10, Misa Trt back to Germany, to. the who was se ne It was agre © the wedding take returned. e cime) 1 A girl of tiwventy coordlng time nie enson told 1 oun > marry Again) year, when, Mis sho dlacovere wedding was Friedh that he Oliver to be m atic Signature ds Was not nowledwed be- » Commissioner of ul-gon I son could. simul mo ust ¢ by Lydia Bi. Koch, w James Alder tice as w mer 1c mini the |namo of domes n'8 | that hot vata snot 1 that nan {lt ing jt ihrie Ww and the mo qu hat name ever Friedlander on Effusive Rhapsodies that Breathe Fer- vid Affection of Lorn Editor, ratations nt, running the Whole ns from A ote marrlase was neo) to her ato t whieh of under natd tontions to another woman, and [ brotded him for it. ‘Do this he swered in remorse and declared SISTER AND “WO Piper Orrvaxsh GINUING, | _ALENATURE, ment may Mrs. 0) 1. A with ) Om Aulons 1 ny could ot the t Aye, up- [to make ti soon. ans | advantage, tt he thererore fi to come where Letter No, ¥ love jerVing * "far aye. cone Go ly aaa for can gee you. my Do. and 1y comeiline her, anit) {tt pray then ge we teri Letter Net 2 told iD thy fans ue Other letters until Miss Me Nv HE ROB ASTARY LLLZA DET ALLRIICE, BED, AND THE ORGED O/GNATORE. reed it with the dames 8. Alderdt Union was a De Alderdice in VeCHy.” The fi tote eheck in yal Bank in Jersey © Hinds in purchasing Summit. ave Jersey n ‘su e the de» Ine Mrs. Koch tite these morugiges Rp eayelon 18 have never heen found. hat it Or Aldeniion toe raise | Rates Were Che anged, cin’ Mrs, Koch's. nd Tid ||_ AN) die torawd: Wecda: th Hie st Company ite to me, your dea, nd fay IARMON. No, 3, with 1,000 Kisses, 1 love? How can 1 tell my you Mi iss Would sutforate now gu n a? TR 4 under my OUS, Vou have won t completely. Tak ft is vou don't break it, It would not Without vour love Au re volt till § nd timex lay, T kiss ve HARM( Letter No. 4 TAs of Tortured Brain.) of |) | Letter No, 5—He Reproaches Him: self, Shall T reproacn for a luter? oach myself In are a part of with me? * ee heart Ming making mew the effort to te again! | 7 wonder how 1 managed to exis (ar T inet P fotos, thou have through ronie tunnel © hast led me tie Micht and 6, Tat roof aome modern a this strain conth Fledla Ne Longer Free, me, and I Once waen ea T wrote you cy. mie wee Thave « neross ors Ve show. olay with vour ute. Toshould ha Rule to whieh my lack af it haw subjected vou. T should yen tow T shrink: from telling whieh I should. indifference to you, % 9 4] wal Jestial harp, | th ow p NIN, Ho ¢ to’ that | has fooling: a how beautiful ts tie nica! It intoxicated of my mo yestyrday, nH Sweetheart, don't you let me ply fi . it adugh Langer,," Please, tonger 8 ‘our deter’ veny qi do) met wonder If I shall not hay alanneal in the next world ,| Dus forwlyy mi Cuntl fai free to sneak the t have heen on my ine sines 1 you—and that freedom man’ talen from me in thie wor yo rg Ane’ ashes. for mo—for vou, onnnots 1 know ie os + 1 know ihat T ea: tree) 1 cannot. pied to the Title That to Apply for Why sh Plenge have been Alderdice, logloal cone! ito unopened h torrents oe Da' vou vomember Pua tur received this let. fter all that has | 7 would be a matter or) examination, t was seven years ago that I be-| and I, ain using {t still, and shall continue|| \vo. 4 nd jn it a guarantee Name given by Pos- vords ignt 0 | of good health, en in the f an ¢ od Arment Hives Inserted to suit find tie general Penman! Thy ¢ ot py Mrs. at it would ts t of the acknowl! rainy hy to the mpany shown by. photogr ‘ature offered in ¢ ca signature. being his father's sige how The Oliver until 16, when he submitted: them ‘ownsend Wandell, a lawyer, for aminatia informed, Sir. Wa hat he was going to place ¢ ot lord tte t held the deeds for ad Hin Jonger, placed Oi | eeTinewer to questions by Recorder hee ath Nevontyexplanation that he coul ive | xiv f Ding these deeds wae that Ive Mis’ father. had just died and ya fresneet to him that he NS ried thetn ring the natu | Werentoo: Tas the ani begun? | noe forgery. In the Have you swung the bi hat com mands the nympha > nether world to doin In aterritly dlaphaxon that shall ' K rack my soul and torture my Drath wnttl J met shrick with agony? Was ail that | 4 WIDOW'S LUCK. 4s gone by merely the prelude to alQuit the Thing That Wan Slowly iy that tt was fated to ¢ . j Wee eee opp aistuetonr det tne KIMtng Her. peal to you again, Oh, If 1 could only LIE i0,¥p now! Tf Lcould only pour) 4 woman tells how coffee kept her much T need sont iovet “Lam sure that {from insuring her lite: your love forme will rlae as a Protest “f suffered for many years, chiefly hing volte renolve, #8 °° Oh from trouble with my heart, with H ActUMBIT. 1 foo) am It Lewis facing | Severe nervous headaches and neural (ual death, Would you Kill me? {gla; but although incapacitated at My if ves my love, think What | times for my housework, I did not ME OUP UT, HARMON. | realize the gravity of my condition because, said, my not pass me, |much, as Tw child dependent upon me, thee Nay, n the Ih it, | Insure my Hfe, t pe. | “Fortunately for mo, T happened to i i)read an advertisement containing a tark | testimonial from a man who had been collection this city them. to brought them toonim the week wing the death of Mrs. Oliver and futhor then helt them untit genuine signatures the forged sig there could be till I was rejected for life insurance, the examining physician heart was so bad he could This distressed me very 3 a widow and had a It was to » great that words | protect her future that I wanted to Legat | Jon was scareled in nbs. a} | picket was found a proposed aftidavit|t s signed by Lydia Bo Koen, | Mes. | k knew Mrs. Oliver, James | Nlderdice, the ta Aldord of Mary 1d | PR OGRESSI VE STAGES ie ve a ‘the ‘veegence < Tk SIGNATURE OF SOMES ALDEROICE BAACIO | BY ACR Moy Be san tH IN THE ASovE WTR I At the time of as fallow to Mr, Sabetth; Waa orre with forgery w Tambs in default « have been vour friend : t pall fi Faire ul 7 1% 1 in my ik’ ny. Simultaneous D eaths On Nov, 9 15, Chere was a tragedy in that ttle commrntty i which “dim the Penman’ lived, 1 rechise died under peculiar elreum- Anoos and the Alder 8 went In hole “In the. e that t TH blue, lilac, white Uy Dotted Swiss, plain and fancy borders, into | affected in the same way that I was} mos. | |with heart trouble, and who Postum Food Coffee, change at once, “My health began to improve {im ‘medfately, The headaches and nou how shall} Tray you mys once. soon all passed away, mane ont of my mouth! : ipplication for Ife Insurance, must | at | Ban to Use Postum Food Coffee, 8 law 14, 1 | to do so, as I tum Compny, Battle Creek, Mich, aoa know nnot, no \ |ralgin disappeared, I gained {n flesh, jand my appetite came back to me at | treatest of all, my heart was! trengthened from the beginning, and the distressing symptoms No more waking up In the night with my heart trying to fly Then I again made and (had no trouble in passing the medical was | nued | cured by leaving off coffee and using | I grasped at the hope this held out, and made the, 10 per cent, Discount Allowed on All Open ‘These room are tion In 0 PAMLOM, ur oF Paris able «brass feet); handsome Lam cove} bale of a | fara Pictures; Meni Ne Grlental Rug, 70s | { Rorme, |} patre Curtain, yyaire Bet; hand, Cover; 15) fale Mat ttyue OF Cres, Sle Lec e adjolning a Nearly two generations of satisfied tsers-testityy- Simple, pleasant, rellable, sold on merit more than 60 years At Druggists soc.and $1,or by mail from TARRAN dd. Constable ge THURSDAY, JUNE 29TH Women’s Summer, Wear "= UNUSUAL VALUES LINEN SUITS, Long Coat effects, semi-fitting, MOHAIR SKIRTS, Kilted Model, white, also black. WAISTS, Hand Embroidered Linens sss se seeees eves 2,95 iH] Black Mull.+.+esess cece cscs ceeeceee SHORT KIMONOS, Flowered and White Lawn, Value $1.90 .......004 LONG KIMONOS, White Lawn, Polka Dot borders. Val. $2.50 1,85 Rroadveay L918 Strect. Puri Range or rae Attn i OUR, — Saran OGUB OF OUR t YARLO tant Di arned Wits In Her property con FORGERY. ee TRUE SIGNATURE was strongest reer. 10 1 his nad Nas i County deeds t was fersan Hving: to the daughter nan ine eda of the efore ha exons the deliy ‘ rec hy hte father's not so at Motlight, send Alderdice Kirk and Paul Krotel Oliver estate posession her lawyer, 1 of real estate on . between One Hundred h street and One Hun- th street, and in th Ine the hous ind. the house oo- the father, nal property valued ») of her estate is enn nen that Mr, Attorne iy Distress after meals, Heartburn, Fermentation, Water-brash. tots great medicinal value, It has been CO., 44 Hudson StreetaNoMy 15,00 ~ 9,50 1,95 1.10 90 AGENTS FOR GRAND RAPIDS FURNITURE. ‘chases During ‘Thin Month, fa Golden Oak Dressing Case and Washstand; segant brass trim med atecl enamelled é ; woven wire Bed Spring; soft top Mate trossos; palr Feather . Kitehen ratory Ietten decorated |) pleces of eons, Lous CUTIES,