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Waupaca County Post

January 23, 1919

MANY, MANY CASES NOW IN COUNTY JAIL

DICK DILLON, ALIAS C.H. SKINNER, ALIAS SNYDER, ARRESTED BY UNDER-SHERIFF IN LUMBER CAMP

IS CHARGED WITH FORGERY

MAN IS ALLEGED TO HAVE UTTERED MANY CHECKS ON BANKS IN WHICH HE HAD NO MONEY

Clayton H. Skinner alias Snyder alias Dick Dillon alias numerous other names, was arrested Thursday night at a lumber camp eight miles from Crandon, by Under-sheriff William Toepke, on a warrant charging forgery and obtaining of money on false pretenses. Skinner or Snyder or Dillon, whichever is his name, has cut a wide swath, according to reports on file in the sheriff’s office of Waupaca County, and he is now wanted in several cities where he is accused of uttering checks with a recklessness which was bound to bring him into prison.

The immediate cause of his arrest was the uttering of four checks at Manawa, last October, he having cashed in saloons there four checks for $20.00 each to which he signed the names C.H. Skinner, and payable at the Farmers State Bank of Waupaca. A warrant was issued for these offenses, but Skinner had disappeared after raising a check for $5.00 obtained here, to $15.00 and cashing it in this city.

The sheriff received letters from various cities stating that Skinner or Dillon was wanted for similar offences, and he was traced to a lumber camp, and Toepke arrested him there, finding him in a bunk asleep at 12 o’clock at night.

Under-sheriff Toepke had the advantage of the Oneida county sheriff who was also after the man as Toepke had taken the man to Waupun two years ago after he had been convicted of forgery, and sentenced to a year in state’s prison. He has a record, it is said, at Oshkosh, Stevens Point, Three Rivers and other places, but will be tried here first in all probability.

Skinner is a young man of persuasive tongue and seems to be able to pass questionable paper with ease, if reports of him are true.