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16 January 2010

COOGAN story 

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(appearing in the "Oelwein Daily Register" [IA], 10 APR 1911, PAGE 2):

WASHINGTON, April 10 - Carle Hardman of Marietta, O., claiming to be
a wealthy oil magnate and posing as Stephen B. Elkins, son of the late
senator from West Virginia, and as Frederick L. Coogan of Tulsa, 
Okla., was arrested here for passing worthless checks upon several
local brokers.

Hardman, said to be a son of an "oil millionaire," was introducted at
the Citizen's Savings bank by one of the brokers, and, as Frederick
L. Coogan, wanted to deposit a $67,000 draft on the Central National
bank of Tulsa, Okla.  Meanwhile, the bank telephoned to Tulsa and was
informed that Coogan was not in Washington.  When Hardman later
appeared to cash a number of checks he was taken into custody. 
Subsequently he admitted his identity, saying Coogan was a friend of
his.

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(appearing in the "Washington Post" [DC], 22 JUN 1911, PAGE 3):

'BOY FINANCIER' GUILTY

Frederick L. Coogan Makes No Defense
To Charge Of Forgery

Frederick L. Coogan, alias Carl Hardman, the "boy financier," was
arrested here April 8 last after an attempt to pass a worthless
draft for $67,000, yesterday pleaded guilty before Chief Justice
Clabaugh, holding a special criminal court, to a charge of forging
the draft.  Sentence was postponed.  James F. Kelly, counsel for
the youth, is endeavoring to have him parolled.

Coogan also is alleged to be wanted on a criminal charge in Colorado,
and his counsel is trying to have this charge quashed.  He posed 
here as the son of a wealthy resident of Marietta, Ohio, and forged
the name of Blaine Elkins, of West Virginia, to the draft.  He 
offered the paper as security for a loan of $18 at a hotel.

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