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Show YOUTHFUL FORGER IS NABBED IN ACT Salt Lake. May 30. While attompU lng to pass a forged chock for $248.98 at Walkor Brothers bank, John A Gover, a Hollander, seventeen years old, waa arrested by Chief of Police S. f- Barlow yesterday afternoon and Is now held at the city Jail charged with a series of forgeries on which ho is thought to havo realized over $100 in the last few weoks. Gover arrived from Holland March 15th and speaks English brokenly Ho was employed iby William Wood, Jr., a butcher at 28 West First South street until last week, when he was discharged for attempted .peculations. Wood's name was signed to tho check, as was that of A. R Thomas, to whom the chcok was payable. Both are considered by the police as excellent ex-cellent forgeries. Two weeks ago a check for $S0 with the same forged signatures was passed pass-ed at P. W. Madsen's furniture company, com-pany, and the police are confident Gover turned tho trick. Other checks of tho same sort, ono for $C0 and another an-other for $10, wero presented for payment pay-ment by Gover at the Utah National bank and at Walker Brothers sovoral days ago, but wero turned down. Suspecting Sus-pecting a forgery, yesterday tho teller ut Walkers asked Gover to wait a moment, and upon learning tho check to have been unauthorized, the called the police. Chief Barlow made the nrrest in person |