The People v. Dwyer

This case is presented upon a writ of error to the criminal court of Cook county, where a jury found the defendant, Mathew Dwyer, guilty of the crime of forgery. He was sentenced to the penitentiary at Joliet. The indictment contained two counts, one charging defendant with forgery of an endorsement of H. L. Oppenheimer to a check issued by Jackson Bros., Boesel & Co., defendant’s employers, in the sum of $1844.33, and the second count charging the uttering of the check.

Dwyer was employed as a margin clerk in their main Chicago office by Jackson Bros., Boesel & Co., stock brokers, who also…