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Show SOME OF MR. SMITH'S WORK The Slick Manner in Which He Worked Both . Saints and - Sinners. Considerable talk was created about town last Saturday afternoon by the detection de-tection of another forgery which had been perpetrated in Salt Lake . by the smooth, sanctimonious hypocrite, C. J. Smith. A Democrat reporter gathered the full particulars of the sensational affair, but, by the request of those directly interested in the matter," the publication was temporarily postponed in hopes that prompt and careful action might be the means of capturing the forger and revealing some additional facts. The persons involved were called on to-day, but no new developments have been unearthed. un-earthed. The facts are, in brief, as follows : C. J. Smith came to. Salt Lake some two years ago," in rather stringent circumstances, circum-stances, but having the appearance of a gentleman, and being decidedly clever, with all his religious pretensions, he soon ingratiated himself into the leading societies of this city, and formed a partnership part-nership in the real estate business with JMr. A. J. White, at No. 34 E Second South street. All went well for some months, while Smith broadened his acquaintance and strengthened the confidence con-fidence in him of every Christian and sinner in the town. t About four months ago the Democrat gave an account of, Smith, skipping the Territory with a kidnapped boy by the name of Anderson,' and leaving behind him many debts,several unsettled scrapes and a forged check on Mr. James Luke. The scape-grace was last heard of in Can ada, wnere ivirs. iiurx, wno once resided just east of the north corner of Second East and Second South streets, has gone to meet him. - ' The facts of the last forgery show that on the 11th day of November, 1884, Smith called on Mr. Andrew C. Brixen and explained ex-plained that Mr. W. A. Dunbar, a commercial com-mercial man, residing at No. 44 N. First West street, wanted to borrow $800 on a mortgage. After a satisfactory examination examina-tion of the property and titles, Mr. Brixen issued an $800 check on the Deseret National Na-tional Bank, deducting $48 in advance for the first six months' interest. . Smith gave Mr. Brixen the note and mortgage of $800, and received the $752 in exchange made payable to W. A. Dunbar. The firm of White & Smith did banking with the Deseret National Bank, and Smith kept his own little private account with Walker Bros., where he deposited the check of $752 to his credit, after forging forg-ing Dunbar's name as an indorsement and his own as an .identification. The next day the check was sent to the Deseret Des-eret Bank, where both Brixen and Dunbar Dun-bar held accounts. The check bore Walker Bros', stamp and was accepted. The cancelled check was handed to Mr. Brixen at the end of the month and he kept it. A few weeks ago Brixen called at Mr. Dunbar's house to collect the accrued ac-crued interest, but Mr. Dunbar was away, and the matter was not looked into until last Friday, when Dunbar returned and called on Mr. Brixen in" much surprise concerning the matter, and said he never signed either the note or the mortgage. The two astonished men then went to j the office of A. J. White to see if any light could be thrown on the dark affair. Mr. White knew nothing at all about the transaction, and was almost a stranger to Mr. Dunbar, whom he . had slightly known during the past four months. Cashier L. S. Hills pronounced the check a forgery as soon as he looked at it, but felt secure on account of Walker Brothers' Broth-ers' stamp on the check and their transferring trans-ferring it. . , Hall & Marshall are Mr. Brixen's legal advisers, and as yet no decided steps have been taken. Both the Deseret and Walker Brothers' Bank refuse to stand the loss of $752. unless obli?d to. anr? the ' present aspect indicates a law point between all the parties. Since the discovery of Smith's nefarious fraud, several new developments have been unearthed against him. Strange to say, in all of Smith's little dirty doings he never implicated his partner Mr. White in a single dollar's dispute. The $752 note held - by Mr. Brixeh with interest due each month', expired last month, but for some unexplainad reason it was not closed until a few weeks ago. Should a suit ensue, a number ot fine j points will be brought to light. |