ADecember 11 1928
The Kentucky Post and Times-Star, Covington, Kentucky, Tuesday, December 11, 1928
ALLEGED FORGER HELD IN TICKET SWINDLES
Suspect Admits Signing Physicians' Names, Police Says
Said to have admitted passing forged checks to which names of physicians were signed, a prisoner registered as Paul Buttenweiser, 30, of 252 Loraine-av, was under arrest Tuesday.
It is expected that several affidavits will be filed against him.
He is said to have tendered checks for railroad tickets, sometimes receiving a cash balance. On other occasions, it is charged, he returned the tickets for cash.
On Nov. 19, police were told, 10 packages of blank bank checks and a check writer were stolen from the Raisbeck Co., 625 College-st.
Soon checks bobbed up on various merchants and railroad companies, amounts ranging from $40 to $80.
Buttenweiser, whose father and sister are said to be college instructors, has made certain admissions, according to Robert Ecker and John McGurn city detectives. Railroad operatives also have been investigating the checkpassing epidemic.
Buttenweiser was caught Monday night.
