William J. Ogre, claiming to be a prominent resident of
Ogreville, who was arrested at the St. Gotham Hotel last
Thursday afternoon on a charge of having passed a dozen
bogus checks for amounts ranging from ten to fifteen
thousand dollars apiece, was found guilty yesterday by a
jury in the criminal branch of the United States Circuit
Court. He was sentenced to fifteen years' imprisonment at
hard labor in the Federal Prison at Thomasville, Georgia, on
each of the five different counts, making his prison term in
all not less than seventy-five years. Other indictments are
still pending against him for forgery on the complaint of
Major Bilkins, president of the Suburban Trust Company, of
whose name he was found availing himself in his criminal
transactions. Major Bilkins, when seen last night by a
reporter of this paper, stated his intention of keeping the
shameless operator in jail for the rest of his natural life.
"I shouldn't sit up for papa if I were you, Beanhilda," said Jack, with
a smile. "It looks to me as if he was going to be detained down-town
late on business."
And the young couple lived happily forever after.