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SUSPECT BOOKED AT CITY JAIL Deputy Summers and
Detective Lilly search their prisoner before booking him at
the city jail, starting the county's judicial machinery
which will move the defendant through an arraignment,
perhaps a trial, and possibly a jail or prison sentence.
District Attorney Dale Crabtree stated that next to pet
ty larceny more money is lost annually to the American
public through check writing offenses than any other
crime committed in the United States. To help local
merchants avert some of these losses, the district at
torney's office is sponsoring a Check Seminar, to be
held May 2 and 9 at a place to be named later. The
course is designed for merchants and employes who
handle checks and is to include as instructors Sgt. Clare
Alderson, handwriting expert of the Oregon State Police
at Salem; a representative of a local bank; and officers
of the city police and sheriff's office. The course will in
clude three hours of instruction during each class.
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BUNCO SQUAD ACTS ON TIP While investigating
another case, the bunco detail receives a tip that the
suspect is still residing in Klamath Falls. Lilly and Sum
mers trace the bogus check writer through an automobile
parked on Klamath Avenue and wind up the ease with
an arrest. A final report outlining the investigation is
prepared by either Diane Coy, sheriff deputy, or Sue Dil
ler, secretary in the district attorney's office. The report
and other details of the case go to District Attorney
Dale Crabtree, who arranges for the prosecution of the
defendant.
BUNCO SQUAD SIGHTS IN ON CHECK PASSERS A
two-man bunco squad, comprised of Sergeant Detective
Dennis Lilly of the city police and Deputy Del Summers
of the Klamath County Sheriff's Office, has been estab
lished by the district attorney's office to combat an in
creasing number of fraudulent check cases which have
been reported in the county since last year. The squad
was set up last March. Since then, more writers of fic
titious checks have been prosecuted than ever before.
In addition, the unit is quickly processing a backlog of
chock cases that had been gradually building up since
before the squad was organized. In a typical case, De
puty Summers, left, and Detective illy, right, begin in
vestigation of a worthless check complaint with the com
paring of signatures on several fraudulent checks sub
mitted to police.
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91 CHECK CASES SINCE JANUARY Detective Lilly
holds a stack of police reports representing 137 check
cases investigated by the city police during 1962. The
smaller stack represents 34 cases investigated by the
police department since January of this year, not includ
ing 57 similar violations handled by the sheriff's office
during the same period for a total of 91. The 137 cases
handled by city police last year along with 200 expedited
by the sheriff's office brings the total number of check
cases reported in the county to 337 for that year. The
number of check violations could be considerably great
er, inasmuch as many cases are not reported. Most worth
less chocks are made out in amounts of less than $20.
Use Of Convict Labor Seen
Saving State $1.5 Million
OFFICERS SEEK INFO FROM SALEM The bunco de
tail leaves the bank and goes to the Klamath Falls Police
Department to send a teletype to Oregon State Police
at Salem requesting information about the maker of the
checks. Mrs. Bernice Matteson, city police clerk, trans
mits the information to Salem, settinq in motion the
identification department of the state police which seeks
a clue to the identity of the check passer by referring to
its voluminous records. The department maintains a file
which catalogues more than 200 different handwriting
characteristics used in writinq checks. Frequently, the
file will disclose the identity of a fictitious check writer
by the style with which he writes the amount of the
check, the date, or some peculiarity of the numbers.
Sometime later, the officers receive a reply which lists
a suspect and states his habits and description. The
bunco detail, which meets twice weekly with the district
attorney to pool information, adds the name to a list
of wanted check passers and leaves the station to go
their separate ways in seeking the suspect.
SALEM ( LI'I '-Restricting the
u.se of convict lawir could cos
Jie stale's general fund (15 mil
lion next biennium. the Senalt
Public Buildings and Institution:
Committee was advised Mondaj
night.
Sen. Edward Kadclev. D . Eu
gene, is author of a bill which
would prohibit a convict from
working outside the institution
where he is confined. He said it
was designed to establish a "pol
icy" on the use of convict labor
arid elear up conflicting statuU
now on the books.
Nick Peet, secretary of the
Board of Control, said at present
150 convicts are now doing work
for other state institutions.
Organized labor supported Fade-
ley's bill.
AFL-CIO Political Director
George Brown said organized la
bor did not believe convicts should
comiete with free labor in major
building projects.
Labor's suit to halt use of pris
on labor at a new women's prison
was recently thrown out of court.
Circus Billed
For Hospital
The Sheriff's Posse will sponsor
a one-day performance of t h e
James Brothers' Circus, billed as
a "European-type circus," on
Thursday, May 30. The proceeds
will be contributed to the Inter
community Hospital fund.
Two performances are sched
uled in the Klamath Auditorium,
with tickets available at the door.
The matinee will begin at 4 p.m.
and the evening performance at
8:30 p.m.
Brown said organized labor was
'ready, willing and able to work
vith the Board of Control to see
hat prisoners can have an oppor
tunity for employment after re
ease." Sen. Harrv Boivin. D-KIamath
Falls, suggested an apprenticeship
program be established at correc
tional institutions.
Brown said he could see no ob
jection to such a program.
The committee took no action
on Fadclev's bill.
PAGE 10 A Wednesday, April 17, 1963
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: LAWMEN COMPARE PHONEY CHECKS After comparing the signature,, the
. bunco squad takes the checks to the U.S. National Bank of Portland, 740 Main
. Street, to compare with several other fictitious checks which turned up there. Ob
servinq the style of writinq on the bank drafts presented by Deputy Summers and De
tective Lilly are, left to right, City Police Chief Charles Howard and Bob Mason, as
sistant manaqer of the bank. Before the bunco detail was set up, the city police de
partment and the sheriff's office worked on check cases separately. As a result, if
sometimes occurred that the two law enforcement agencies would be working on the
same case, unknown to the other. Establishment of the special squad has eliminated
duplication of effort on check cases in the sheriff's office and city police depart
ment and enabled law enforcement officials to crack down harder on check passers.
Meeting Dated
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date was Incorrectly announced
in the AAUW bulletin as April 18.
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