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Students, faculty members, and employees representing a cross-section of the University community turned up at the Middlesex Superior Court in East Cambridge yesterday. Whether they came as witnesses, friends, or curious on-lookers, they were brought together by the long-awaited forgery trial of Albert C. Knaus...
...Knaus is charged with stealing 14 checks while working for the University Mail Service and cashing them at the Cambridge Trust Company. The prosecutor produced the checks one by one, each time calling as a witness the person who should rightfully have received it but didn...
...Ross E. Fairbanks, assistant to the Comptroller, testified that the checks in question were of the sort distributed by the University Mail Service and that he had seen Knaus come to pick up outgoing mail at Lehman Hall. But under cross-examination he admitted that every noon the Lehman Hall janitor, instead of the regular carriers, took the outgoing mail to the University Post Office behind Widener Library
...Knaus stoutly asserts his innocence and will plead not guilty. He is now free on $3,000 ball...
Arrested January 15, Knaus was booked on 11 counts of larcency and 11 counts of forgery and utterance. He allegedly took 13 checks while working as a carrier for the University Mail Service and cashed them after forging endorsements' at the Cambridge Trust Company...