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The Evening Herald
Shenandoah, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania
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G. C. Kennedy, a former prominent attorney in Lancaster, Pa., arrested on Aug. 6 for forging W. M. Tinsley's name on a $489.50 promissory note to defraud Rees L. Himes. Kennedy, from a good family, had fallen from social and political prominence after an unsuccessful campaign and client frauds, leading to his expulsion from the bar weeks earlier.
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LANCASTER, Pa., Aug. 6.-G. C. Kennedy, formerly a prominent attorney, was arrested here last night charged with forgery. The complainant in the case is Rees L. Himes, of Kinzers, this county, who alleges that Kennedy forged the name of W. M. Tinsley to a promissory note for $489.50 and induced Himes to give him the money for it. It is asserted that Kennedy had never seen Tinsley, and had no acquaintance with him whatever. Kennedy, who is a young man of good family, formerly enjoyed great social and political prominence. A few years ago he made an unsuccessful campaign for the district attorneyship, during which he spent large sums of money. This, it is alleged, he obtained by defrauding his clients. A few weeks ago he was expelled from the bar.
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Lancaster, Pa.
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Aug. 6
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G. C. Kennedy arrested for forging W. M. Tinsley's name on a promissory note for $489.50 to obtain money from Rees L. Himes, despite no acquaintance with Tinsley. Background includes his prior prominence, unsuccessful district attorney campaign funded by client fraud, and recent bar expulsion.