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Show ASTUTE OGDENITE VICTIM OF PAWKY ' BAD CHECK ARTIST I ChCCk artlata are dally bOOOm- J Ing more audacloua In plying their trade police offtcera aa l-aat week. .1 well drOOOCd ollng man tailed at a realdence In Of?-drn Of?-drn lie carried wUh him a Check which dure a pom- forgery of the j man 'a algnnture and repreaented blmaalf aa n meaaenger from a lo-I lo-I cal bank. Upon aaklng to ae the man 1 whoa name waa algnad on the hei In i.ike n followa: ' Mr. So-iitiISo ' I waa Kent here from the L'mpt) I mp bank In re-garda re-garda to thla .-hi" k There aeema to he ome Irregularity In connection connec-tion w!h It He preaented the hei k w hich waa immediately Identified a a rank forger.v C.nn I he one of your cancelled can-celled check- to take to the hank for the purpose of comparison 1" the pauedo bank meaaenger aaked. Ha v-a given a cancelled check. That afternoon, the accomodating accomoda-ting 'gdenlte after considerable pondering over the mntter, called at hta bank to straighten out ihe matter He found that the man profeaalnej to be a bank meaaenger had obtained 'he cancelled check for the purpose of ualng Ihe alg-nature alg-nature for a pattern and bnd forged forg-ed cnerk for $26. It la reported In police circles t li 1 1 i in. m ,i pparent l the r nie bank maaaanyar.'1 attempted 'he same trick In North gden. but the check which waa for almoat l.'io was turned, down at the j Kink. |