Show A FORGERY CASE young Hick ruan tries to pass a for offered check and fails A young man calling himself john hickman sometimes james S peterson and other vai ious aliases has been arrested in salt lake and was today to day brought to provo on monday he went into the store of S S jonea in this city and said he wanted to settle a small bill against geo hickman of benjamin he offered a check for drawn in favor of byrua weaver bo G W hemans on the deseret national bank in payment which mr jones ac paving the balance in a check about to hickman the first check was that day passed into the first national bank by mr jones with his deposits and went up to aalt lake by the afternoon mail next morning early cashier dusenberry received word by telephone from cashier hills to the effect that the deseret national had no depositor named G W hemans mr dusenberry investigated the matter and it was ascertained certa ined that hickman had gone on to salt lake by yesterday mornings utah central train air dusenberry telephoned the fact to halt lake and caused the officers there to arrest hickman and hold him until an officer was sent from here and had alie satisfaction of learning before noon that the young forger as alleged was in custody sheriff fowler went down to salt lake last night to receive his prisoner this morning he returned with hickman accompanied also marshal john M young of salt lake the prisoner is now in county jail awaiting examination which will take place this afternoon before jestice W IL brown the evidence against II ickman seems very clear and conclusive A short time since mrs T E daniels jr detected him tearing a blank deseret national bank check from one of the hooks over the customers desk in the first national bank the check presented to mr jones by hickman is identical with the blanks suspended on the hook and shows the tear made hen bo pulled it from the hook then again when searched in salt lake by the officers a letter was found in his pocket written by him the chi of which tallies precisely with the fictitious signatures upon the forged check the officers offic erg say that the whole transaction is a dead give away and there seems to be no chance for the defendant to escape conviction at the time of his arrest hickman had on his person which it ia presumed is what be had left of the money obtained by him at the bank on S S jones check |