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Show SHERIFF liER IS flERE FOR PRISONER A. H. Sevier Starts Back to Oklahoma Ok-lahoma Today to Face Forgery Charge. .Deputy Sheriff C. T. Warner of Oklahoma Okla-homa City arrived in this city Sunday afternoon to take back to that place A. II. Sevier, wanted there on the charge of forging a. check for $75 and passing It on tho Woslcrn Security company of that place. The capture of Sevier was made Wednesday Wed-nesday last by Doputy Sheriff Berk Seager. acting under the. Instructions of Sheriff Sharp, and was attended by a peculiar set of circumstances.. Sevier Wednesday morning went to tho Xatlonal Bank of thf Republic of this city and ntlempted to sell to President Frank Knox sonic insurance in the Mutual Benefit Bene-fit Life company. In the course of the ,(.. cjvi-r nroduccd a bank I'UH'l.T'HU" i pass book which showed deposits upwards up-wards of $100,000. He then told President Presi-dent Knox that he wished to open an account ac-count with ihc bonk. He hud. prior to the meeting with President Knox, met the cashier of the bank and had spoken of the same thing, the cashier later introducing in-troducing him 10 President Kno.v After some talk on the insurance business busi-ness Sevier left with tho bank president his address., saying that he could be found at anv lime hi the Mercantile annex an-nex building, in which the company ho represented had offices. Ho then went to the Flnh National bank and. alter staling that ho wished to transfer some monev to that bank, presented two checks, one signed by A. It. Sevier for $.10,000 on tho Planters and Merchants, bank at. Oklahoma City and anolher purporting pur-porting to have been signed by Imogenc Sevier, for $100,000 on the Merchants bank of Oklahoma. City, lie told tho officials at the Utah National to take plenty of time in looking up his connections before be-fore honoring the cheeks. The offieinls of the Utah National Immediate Im-mediate telegraphed lhe authorities at Oklahoma Cily regarding the account of Sevier. Then came the telegram to Sheriff Sharp advising him thai Sevier was wanted at Oklahoma City. Sharp Immediately went to work on the case and. after locating Sevier in the offices of the Mutual Benefit Life company, engaged en-gaged him in conversation over the telephone tele-phone while Deputy Sheriff Seager went to tlie offleo lo make the arrest. Sevier will. In all probability, be. returned to Oklahoma City today. |