Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 29
Marlin, Texas, Saturday, August 31, 1907
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STEEN ROLLED HIGH
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GAY LOTHARIO MARRIES A MIS-
SOURI WOMAN AND IS
SHOWN.
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Gave Wife Bogus Check for $10,000
as Bridal Present.
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The St. Louis Globe Democrat has an article in it that will prove of interest to
a few of the Marlin people. It is centered on no other person than H. V.
Steen, who was in Marlin a few weeks ago, and is alleged to have passed a couple
of checks drawn on a San Antonio bank, professing to his endorsers that he had
the funds; the two checks, one for $50 and the other for $25, were returned,
just a line on the back, "No funds."
The article in the St. Louis paper covers
the space of a column and a half, reciting the the (sic) escapade of this same
Harry Steen, who after leaving here, went to St. Louis and met a young lady by
the name of Miss Maud Justin of Springfield, Mo., daughter of a retired
capitalist; after wooing her for a week, proposed marriage, "love at sight."
Mis Justin yielded and they were married on last Wednesday. From that date
the stories of the two differ, Steen claiming when arrested that he and his wife
had in (St.) Charles, Mo., and that upon the day they were married, Mr. Steen
gave her check for $10,000, and that they had gone to the Missouri-Lincoln Trust
Co. about 9 o'clock and Mr. Steen stood in line at the paying teller's window
and she on the outside; in a few minutes he came out and stated that
Vice-President Lewis was busy; that he would have wait to see him to get him to
endorse the check before it could be cashed. He asked to be excused from
his wife for a half an hour, and he never showed up until next day and Mrs.
Steen found him at the police station, heaving (sic) been put out of the
Jefferson hotel and was carried to the station by Chief of Dectective Smith, for
holding over, where he is now. A charge will be made against him for
trying to obtain money under false pretenses.
To a reporter of the St Louis paper he
stated that he and his wife were on their way to Texas, where they expected to
make their and that his mother was worth a million and that his check for
$200,000 would be honored, being president of a large shoe concern in New York
and Boston, intimate friend of Gov. Folk and on Gov. Beckham's (of Kentucky)
staff. He will be held for investigation. His wife has not decided
what action she will take.
The Marlin people, who are interested, will
watch with interest and hope to see him get what is coming to him. They
are B. J. Miller who endorsed for $25 and Albert Levy who endorsed for $50.
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