Ft. Worth Daily Gazette
Friday,
August 22, 1890
pg. 7
CHARGED WITH
FORGERY
A Handsome
and Intelligent Printer Gets Off Wrong
Special to
the Gazette
Sherman,
Tex., Aug. 21 - Walter G. Glafcke was
brought before Judge Muse to-day on a
habeas corpus hearing on 10 charges of
forgery and passing on application of
bond which was fixed at the preliminary
trial in Denison at $1000. The
application was refused and the prisoner
remanded into the custody of the
sheriff. The prisoner is a
printer, 21 years of age, handsome and
intelligent. He got off wrong in
Denison, forged checks and passed them.
The
Sunday Gazetteer
Sunday, May 3, 1891
pg. 4
LOCAL CONDENSATIONS
Friday - The young man Glafcke, the
journeyman printer who had been in jail at
Sherman several months on a charge of forgery,
is out on bond and was in Denison this
evening.
The
Galveston Daily News
Friday, May 1, 1891
pg. 1
Promptly Acquitted Him
Sherman, Tex., April 30 - Walter
Glafcke was to-day admitted to bail in the sum
of $1100. He is charged with
forgery.
Ft.
Worth Gazette
Thursday, October 22,
1891
pg. 6
FOR FORGERY
The Charge Against the
City Editor of the Denison Journal, a Bright
Young Man of Good Family
Special to tthe Gazette
Denison, Grayson
County, Texas., October 21, - A neat
piece of forgery was done in the city last
night which came to light this
morning. The forger is a young man who
has an indictment hanging over his head at
present for the same offense and is under a
$1500 bond awaiting trial. This smooth
artist is Walter F. [sic] Glafcke, for the
last few months a resident of this
city, but formerly of Cheyenne, Wyoming,
where his parents, who are very highly
respected, reside.
In July 1890,
Glafcke was employed as a sub in the
composing room of the Herald
of this city. He successfully forged
several checks and passed them without
trouble to different merchants and then
skipped by the light of the moon.
He was captured, brought back and
bound over under bond, which after 6 months
confinement in the county jail was
furnished. After being released he
worked at Sherman a short time and early in
the summer came to Denison to act as city
editor of the Journal. He was
bright enough and made many friends and
assisted materially in building up the
paper. His trial was set for November, and
with that staring him in the face, he no
doubt thought it as well to take a desperate
chance. Last night he presented 6 forged
checks for $14 each, purported to be signed
by C.W. Chapman of the Journal.
They
were cashed, and Glafcke quietly disappeared
before any of the forgeries were detected.
The police are diligently searching the
country, but this evening had gained no clew
[sic] to his
whereabouts. Glafcke is about 31 years
of age, tall and of good address.
The
Sunday Gazetteer
Sunday, October 25,
1891
pg. 4
PASSING FORGED CHECKS
Walter G. Glafcke, the
printer who forged the name of the Herald
Publishing Company last December to a number
of checks, but who was subsequently arrested
and released on bond, is again in the same
kind of trouble. Mr. Glafcke's father
is a prominent newspaper man of Cheyenne,
Wyoming, and on hearing of his son's
escapade here sent money to redeem the
checks. Through much importuning the
young man was given as much leniency as the
law would allow, and his case was to be
called for final hearing during this term of
the district court at Sherman.
Early in the summer
this young man was released on bond and
worked in the printing offices at Sherman,
frequently doing manuscript work for the
various courts. Two months ago he
returned to Denison and for the past 6 weeks
has been filling the position of city
reporter for the Evening Journal.
Tuesday evening, while
under the influence of whisky, he signed the
name of C.W. Chapman to 7 checks, all
ranging in a mount from $1 to $14, and
during the night 6 of them were
cashed. Mr. Louis Libbe secured one,
T.W. Dollarhide, Frank Brunett, Burckel
& Bengel and I. Yeidel 1 each.
Tuesday morning,
between 7 and 8 o'clock Glafcke stepped in
at the U.S. Clothing House and cashed
another, the 7th, making something near $100
in all.
Since that time nothing
whatever has been seen or heard of him,
although a thorough search of the city has
been made and numerous telegrams have been
sent to neighboring cities. The Journal
states that it has evidence that he is
hiding in the city.
Saturday Morning: -
Deputy Chief of Police Henry Hackney
returned last night from Dallas, where he
had been with the hope of capturing Glafcke.
Thursday morning he
called at the newspaper establishment of
Messrs. Scarff & O'Connor and passed a
$10 check. The gentlemen were familiar
with such tricks and called Denison over the
telephone and inquired concerning the
financial standing of the young gentleman,
but as the check was endorsed by a Dallas
man, a relative of C.W. Chapman, of the Journal,
it was cashed before the receipt of the
answer. The officers here immediately
instructed the Dallas officers to arrest
Glafcke if possible. Gene Andrews was
sent down to Dallas on the afternoon train
Thursday and Officer Hackney followed on the
New Special. The day Friday was spent in a
thorough search of the city but the young
man could not be found, and the officers
returned home Friday night.
It is thought by many
that Glafcke is not responsible for his
wrong doing on account of mental
derangement, but the facts connected with
the forgery last winter, also those of
Monday, do not bear out that conclusion.
Ft.
Worth Gazette
Saturday, November 21, 1891
pg. 7
Forgery Cases at Sherman
Special to the Gazette
Sherman, Grayson County, Tex., Nov. 20
- The forgery cases, 12 in number, against
Walter Glafcke, were called to-day and the
bonds forfeited. Glafcke committed the crimes
inDenison by forging checks on the Herald.
He was in jail here 6 months, and after
getting out on bond skipped the bond.
Ft.
Worth Gazette
Wednesday, February 24, 1892
pg. 5
WANTED FOR FORGERY
Special to the
Big Springs, Howard County, Tex., Feb.
23 - Sheriff Birdwell arrested W.G. Glafcke
here to-day on request of the sheriff of
Grayson county. He is wanted at Sherman for
forgery. Glafcke has been here but a
short while and was living under an assumed
name.
Brenham
Daily Banner
Friday, February 26,
1892
pg. 1
Sheriff Bradwell
arrested W.G. Glafcke, at Big Springs
Tuesday on request of the sheriff of Grayson
county. He is wanted at Sherman for
forgery. Glafcke has been here but a
short while, and was living under an assumed
name.
Ft.
Worth Gazette
Friday, February 26, 1892
pg. 5
Wanted For Forgery
Sheriff McAfee, of Grayson county,
came in last evening from Big Springs, having
in charge Walter G. Glafcke, wanted in Sherman
for forgery. Glafcke jumped his bond in
December and has eluded the officers ever
since, but was located at Big Springs through
correspondence with a female. Sheriff
McAfee is an earnest and determined worker,
and generally succeeds inlanding his game. He
recently returned from Indiana, where he
caught a man wanted in his county for forgery.
He will leave to-day for Sherman with his
prisoner.
Ft.
Worth Gazette
Saturday, February 27,
1892
pg. 2
Many Charges to Answer
Special to the Gazette
Sherman, Grayson
County, Texas., Feb. 26 - Walter Glafcke,
the alleged forger, arrived from Ft. Worth
to-day in charge of the sheriff, and is
behind the jail bars.
Nothwithstanding there
are about 30 counts against the young man,
he expresses faint hopes of escaping many of
them, which he believes unjust. His
escapades since jumping his bond were
eventful, having traveled considerable and
lived in a dugout in the great west until a
herd of cattle stampeded by prairie fires
ran him out. His alias was Walter
Morgan.
The
Sunday Gazetteer
Sunday, February 28,
1892
pg. 1
AN UNFINISHED STORY
Crime; Love, Intrigue
and Capture - Marriage Deferred
Chaper III
On Tuesday of this week
word from Big Springs, Howard county, Texas,
that Walter Glasfcke, the forger, had been
arrested, and that he would be held subject
to the authorities of Grayson county.
Sheriff McAfee immediately forwarded capias
to Sheriff J.D. Birdwell, of Howard county,
and Thursday, in company with an officer,
the young man arrived at Sherman from the
west and was placed in the $95,000 jail.
The exploits of young
Glafcke are fresh in the minds of the people
of Denison, and a recapitulation only is now
necessary. Glatcke came to Denison something
near 2 years ago and obtained employment as
a compositor on the evening Herald.
At the end of the second or third month he
issued and passed a number of checks, each
of which was made payable to bearer and
signed "Herald Publishing Co." He made
no special endeavor to get away, and the
second day his arrest was affected. The
young man's parents, residing in Cheyenne,
Wyoming, were informed of their son's
crookedness, and in a short time a check was
received in the city covering the amount of
the forgeries. Glafcke was admitted to
bail, and 2 sessions of the district court
passed with out a trial. In the meantime
Glatcke obtained employment at Sherman, and
later returned to Denison. He did outside
newspaper work for a season, and then
accepted a regular position as city reporter
on the evening Journal. In
this capacity he did vigorous Bohemian
service.
The past was soon
forgotten by the Denison business public,
and one evening early last fall he
experienced no trouble in having 10 or 12
checks calling for from $ 14 to $54 each
cashed.
While here he had met
and loved a Miss Sallie Southerland, a maid
at the Thompson house.
On the evening of
November 5, 1891, a lad called at the
Denison office of the Dallas News
and left the following ad, with instruction
that it appear in the following Sunday
edition of the News:
"W---I still care for
you and will be true in all. S."
In a few weeks the same
boy called and left another short note of
the same character with the same
instruction. This correspondence was kept up
until 2 or 3 weeks since, when the last note
came in, which read as follows:
"W---Everything all
right. You had better address mail to
sister, street and number. Hurry up
and get located. I am anxious.
S."
An abundance of
material is on hand to write a long and
highly interesting story - too long for the
columns of a newspaper - and the Gazetteer
will deal with the affair only as a matter
of news, leaving the romance for that class
of literature devoted to such subjects.
It was known to the
officers here that Glatcke and Miss Sallie
Southerland were lovers, and it was also
known that they were keeping up an
occasional correspondence. The
"personal" columns of the Dallas News
were watched closely, and each paper
containing a mysteriously worded "personal"
beginning with the letter W and ending with
S. was filed away for reference. The postal
authorities here were notified. A
detective was employed and put to work. Mr.
Randell, the state's attorney for Denison,
prosecuted the case with zeal, but used
utmost discretion. Last week the lady
received a newspaper through the Denison
post office, and in opening it the wrapper
was carelessly thrown down on the
floor. On the inside of the wrapper
was a label on which was printed "Howard
County News." This furnished the last
link in the chain of circumstances leading
up to the arrest, and now the young lady
will have to bide her time.
The
Galveston Daily News
Wednesday, March 2, 1892
pg. 6
HELD ON 21 FORGERY COUNTS
Denison, Tex., Feb. 28 - Walter
Glafcke, the young newspaper man arrested at
Big Springs a few days since charged with
forgery committed in this city last fall, was
given a hearing in Justice Hughes' court this
morning. He was held as charged on 22
counts. Bond was fixed at $200 on each
count, making $4400, in default of which he
was remanded to the county jail.
The
Sunday Gazetteer
Sunday, March 6, 1892
pg. 4
LOCAL CONDENSATIONS
Monday - Walter Glafcke
was brought over from Sherman this morning.
The
Sunday Gazetteer
Sunday, April 10, 1892
pg. 4
Eighteen Years in the
"Pen."
Walter Glafcke, the
young printer and amateur journalist, who
worked the "check racket" so nicely in this
city on 2 different occasions was given a
trial in Sherman Thursday. The verdict
of the jury was "guilty" with the penalty of
18 years in the penitentiary.
The forgeries of
Glafcke, his escape, and the rather
sensational, not to say romantic, facts
leading up to his arrest are of such recent
date and so well known to Gazetteer
readers that a rehearsal is not at all
necessary.
After sentence had been
passed and Glafcke, in company with the
turnkey, was leaving the district court room
he tackled the reporter of the Sherman
Register for a cigarette, and in
answer to the question, " How do you feel?"
said: "Oh, about as well as a man could
after getting 18 years," and then added:
"Pretty heavy work for $75, isn't it?"
The Sunday Gazetteer
Sunday, May 15, 1892
pg. 1, 4
Mr. J.B. Wallace, deputy state
penitentiary agent, arrived in Sherman Monday
and took Walter Glafcke, the forger, and 3
other prisoners to the Rusk penitentiary.
The Sherman papers state that Walter
Glafcke, the lover and forger, left on Monday
in company with a state officer, for
Rusk. He will be absent several years.
The
Sunday Gazetteer
Sunday, July 30, 1893
pg. 1
The governor has written to County
Attorney Maxey for a statement of facts in the
Glafcke forgery case. Walter Glafcke, is
the printer who was sent to the penitentiary
last year for a number of forgeries committed
in this city. His father, who is
chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee
of Wyoming, and an editor and citizen of
influence, is endeavoring to get a pardon for
his wayward son. Mr. Maxey will comply with
the request.
Walter Glafcke lived at
207 W. Owings, Denison, Texas in 1896; he was
a stenographer for C.E. Barrell. (Denison City
Directory, 1896, pg.185)
The
Sunday Gazetteer
Sunday, January
19, 1896
pg. 3
LOCAL CONDENSATIONS
Tuesday, January 14,
1896 - Walter Glafcke and Miss Sallie
Sutherland were married by Judge Pearson
last night.
The
Daily Ardmoreite
Sunday, September 13, 1896
pg. 5
White Flyer
By reference to another part of this
paper you will find a good sized display
ad. for W.G. Glafcke, agent for the Barney
White Flyer bicycle. This is one of the
few recognized standard high grade wheels of
the country, and parties desirous of
purchasing could do no better than to call of
Mr. Glafcke.
The Sunday Gazetteer
Sunday, November 29, 1896
pg. 4
LOCAL CONDENSATIONS
Wednesday, November 25, 1896 -
The Daily
Ardmoreite announces the birth of
twins to our old townsman, James
Cathey. Jim has a host of friends in
Denison who will unite with the Gazetteer
in congratulations. The same paper
also announces a daughter born to Mr. and
Mrs. Walter G. Glafcke.
The
Daily Ardmoreite
Monday, December 7,
1896
pg. 3
Died - This afternoon
at 1:30 o'clock, Victorine, the infant
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Glafcke
The
Sunday Gazetteer
Sunday, February 7, 1897
pg. 4
Walter Glafcke, agent for the
Remington typewriter, was here this week
The
Sunday Gazetteer
Sunday, October 10,
1897
pg. 2
LOCAL CONDENSATIONS
Monday, October 4,
'97 - Glafcke, who forged several checks,
was reported to have been seen in Paul's
Valley, I.T. Sunday.
The Sunday
Gazetteer
Sunday, October 17, 1897
pg. 2
When a man turns out to be a rogue
how they glorify him. For instance the
following:
"It is said that Glafcke has
contributed a number of bright and
interesting articles to leading magazines
and periodicals. He made a splendid
newspaper correspondent."
Glafcke never contributed to a
magazine in his life, neither was he "a
splendid newspaper correspondent." He
was a voluminous liar, and his literary
pretensions consisted in Quixotic
triumphs. He was never a reporter on
the Denison
Herald as alleged. He is not
even a dangerous crook, who never stoops to
petty forgery and thieving. He was
captured twice without much trouble.
He is a cunning knave, that should be placed
under restraint. We do not believe
that he is morally responsible for his
acts, and there is a place for such
characters - behind the prison bars. There
is no doubt that he will soon reach the end
of the tether, for he is ablundering
scamp. He should have been captured
before he left Denison.
He was here 24 hours, and seen by a
number of persons after his escapade.
He has a young wife here with whom he will
soon or later communicate, and that will be
the officer's opportunity.
The
Sunday Gazetteer
Sunday, November 7, 1897
pg.3
LOCAL CONDENSATIONS
Monday, November 1, '97 - Walter
Glafcke, the check forger, is reported
in Oklahoma, and is said to have been
several times during the fortnight at the
towns of Warren and Kingfisher.
The
Sunday Gazetteer
Sunday, December 12, 1897
pg. 3
Sheriff Hughes or a deputy will
leave Monday for Springfield, Missouri,
after Walter Glafcke, wanted for forgery.
The
Sunday Gazetteer
Sunday, January 2, 1898
pg. 4
LOCAL CONDENSATIONS
December 31, 1897 - Walter Glafcke
has arrived at the Sherman jail. His next
transfer will probably be to the pen.
The
Daily Ardmoreite
Wednesday, March 2,
1898
pg. 2
Glafcke Has Gone
Walter Glafcke,
convicted and given 2 years for passing a
forged instrument, was taken to Ft. Worth
last week and turned over to the
authorities there.
It is understood that
there were several similar charges lodged
against him there only awaiting the result
of his trial in this county. - -
- Sherman
Register
Texas Convict
and Conduct Register
Huntsville, Walker Co., Texas
20 May
1898
The
Sunday Gazetteer
Sunday, June 4, 1899
pg. 3
LOCAL CONDENSATIONS
Tuesday, May 30 - Mark L .
Goodwin, who visited the state penitentiary
with the investigating committee not long
ago saw Walger Glafcke who is holding down a
clerkship. He also saw Tom O'Brien,
who attends to the hospital department, and
has a soft birth of it.
The
Sunday Gazetteer
Sunday, December 24, 1899
PERSONALS
Walter Glafcke is in the city.
The
Sunday Gazetteer
Sunday, July 21, 1901
pag. 4
PERSONALS
Walter C. Glafcke, wife and little
girl came up from Denton last
Saturday. Glafcke is foreman of a job
office in Denton.
The Sunday
Gazetteer
Sunday, August 16, 1903
pg. 4
PERSONALS
Editor Glafcke of the Madill News
was here Sunday on an interesting
occasion. His wife had presented him
with a fine boy.
Walter Glafcke
and wife lived at 219 W. Morgan, Denison,
Texas in 1905. (Denison City Director7,
1905, pg.66)
Walter Glafcke,
printer, and wife lived at 2314 Eddy,
Cheyenne, Wyoming in 1907. (Cheyenne,
Wyoming Directory, 1907)
The Sunday
Gazetteer
Sunday, March 1, 1908
pg. 4
PERSONALS
Walter Glafcke left for Oklahoma
the past week where he expects to engage
in the newspaper business.
FELONY
Elaine Nall Bay
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