A Minister's Daughter Confesses to Forgery—and Promises a Tell-All Book
Winifred Moter, now Mrs. A. G. Daniels, waived examination on a $300 check charge and was bound over to superior court, while her father, a Newport minister, was expected to arrange bail.
Happy and singing in soft undertones, Mrs. A. G. Daniels, formerly Miss Winifred Moter, the self-confessed girl forger, walks with springy step about her cell in the county jail. She was bound over to the superior court under bond of $1,000 by Justice S. A. Mann, of the police court, Friday afternoon. Having waived preliminary examination on the charge of forging a check for $300, which she passed on L. C. Fischer, a local milliner, she was subjected to the curious gaze of the regular attendants at police court but for a moment. Though accustomed to a much better menu from which to pick toothsome dinners, Mrs. Daniels is said to accept the coarse prison fare with evident content. The Rev. R. C. Moter, a minister from Newport, Wash., is expected here in a day or so to see his erring daughter, and at that time it is believed the $1,000 bail necessary for her release will be furnished.—Chronicle. It is understood that Mrs. Daniels has threatened to write a book depicting the scenes in high life that she has experienced since leaving her home on the farm. A long-suffering public is anxiously awaiting the appearance of the volume.
“It is understood that Mrs. Daniels has threatened to write a book depicting the scenes in high life that she has experienced since leaving her home on the farm.”
A century before viral tell-alls, a small-town minister's daughter turned a forgery charge into a promised memoir of 'high life,' reminding us that crime news and celebrity gossip have long been entangled. For Newport readers, the scandal was personal: their pastor's daughter, jailed in Spokane, became both cautionary tale and serialized drama.
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