Ed Biggs of Bowling Green was arrested in Russellville and charged with forgery, according to an article on the front page of the Dec. 16, 1890, Courier-Journal in Louisville.

Biggs, who apparently made a living from forgery, was accused of forging the name of a mine superintendent on a check. According to the article, “Biggs began his career as a forger at Louisville and has followed it faithfully since the beginning, operating in a number of towns in this state and out of it. … All of the money he procured as bogus checks has been repaid by his father, until now (because) the old man has nothing left with which to pay.”

– “Way Back When in Warren County” is compiled by researchers at the Warren County Public Library and appears twice weekly in the Bowling Green Daily News. For more information about the library, visit warrenpl.org.