Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-08-09 | Page 9 | Police Search for Dashing Spendthrift

jPOLICE SEARCH FOR DASHING SPMRIFT Worthless Checks and $1000 Diamond Pawned for $375 Said to Mark Social Career in S. L. Details of a brief but checkered career In Bait Lake of a man who 5avs his nams as Clauds Hweesey r In which time several Halt Lakers, Including Rudolph Geo began be-gan of 200 North Stats street, were bilked out of various sums of money and other valuables, came out today when a complaint was prepared fit" the" t?wnty"HTny,si office charging- Sweesey with em besslement.' Ueoghegan's contribution contribu-tion to the support of Sweesey during dur-ing his stay in ths city was a dla-mrfhd dla-mrfhd ring said to be valued at 11000. Bweesey pawned the ring for $17 J, it is .said. Police have since recovered the ring. , Sweeter came to 8a It 'Lake 'ostensibly 'os-tensibly from Delaware and was accompanied by a young woman represented to be hla wife. Both were congenial and formed friendships friend-ships quickly among several of Salt Lake's younger sets. Sweesey Is said to have been admitted to 1 membership in several local fraternal frater-nal and social organisations and In ths meanwhile alleged to have been passing worthless checks. Geoghegan's diamond ring was borrowed on some tretext and when several of the checks were returned to those who cashed them, Sweesev and his young wife are claimed to have pawned the ring and departed from Halt Laks overnight with the money thus obtained. . According to the police, Sweesey Is the son of an army officer and has himself had an army career. Hweesey deposited a check for $700 with Walker Brothers Bankers Bank-ers soon after reaching Salt Lake, wlththe request that he ba permitted per-mitted to check against It. Tha bank Is said -to have refused a checking privilege and sent the check to a Baltimore bank for col-Ictlon. col-Ictlon. It was returned marked J'Aocount closed.' Kwaaitav arranrarl tn" mnvm Itit A a house nsar the Kast High school and la said to havs tendered a worthless check tor the first month's rent. At a house warming at the new home Sweesey entertained enter-tained sesrersl Salt Lake people and served refreshments which he had purchased - with -"-worthless -cbeek-s, and In another Instance charged a food bill to tha account of one Of his Salt Lake friends Sweesey Is said to hava gone to St. Louie. He told -friends here thst his father waa warden of the Maryland penltsntlary. Sweesey Is said to have offered checks on smother bank In Salt Lake, many of which were cashed by unsuspecting friends. One msn who hsd cashed one of these checks went to the bank to ask if Sweesey had an account there. "Well ha ought, to have." the, teller said, "if Uie number of checks coming In Indicate anything." any-thing." It transpired thst Bweesey was not acquainted at the bank, which directed suspicion that he waa notl Just all he had represented himself him-self to be.