Show BELIEVE GANG OF DEFRAUDERS IS IS IN CITY Detective Arrests Man Charged With Swindling Swindling Swindling ling Bank Working on CI that hat an organized gang of or bank defrauders and forgers were making Salt SnIt Lake and surround surrounding In towns points of oC refuge from alleged op operations opert op- op ert In eastern cities a as at well as scenes of oC smaller activities two Salt Lake private vate yate detective who left heft for Og Ogden en several sev eral days ago ahO caused the time arrest there yesterday c of or H. H C. C Hookstra charged with defraud defrauding Ins a bank in iii omaha Omaha of or 1000 W. W J. J Bruston a third Salt Lake Lalo private private vate detective left leU for Ogden yesterday e in iii an to clear up the theft of ot a book of or American Bankers Bankers' tra travelers checks check five of or which have havo been passed to date b by clever forgeries The arrest yesterday ester a of oC Hookstra may maj mayhead mayle le head ead to important soy se cral eral big bank batik swindles Dwindles detectives think The two private operatives J. J S. S bress and I li II left Salt Lake L. late ato last week weel Working on Information that Hookstra was formerly a ca cashier of or a bank in S. S D. D and tracing his movements movements move move- ments the two Salt Lako Lake sleuths cooperated cooperated cooperated co co- co- co operated with the police department which made the time arrest errest Hookstra is now IIO b being held for Cor Omaha authorities He lie Is 25 5 years earR old and is rol to have spent some time line on the Pacific Pa Pa- Ia coast coat where his activities are al- al eged to have been traced previous to tobitt hl hll bitt arrival in Utah The theft of or the time check book has In Involved Involved involved In- In several forged signatures in Salt I Lake according to investigations made by the time private ate detective e and the tho Ogden police The Time book was Vas the time property of or G. G I W. W Batchelor of ot Kane county Utah So far as I is known JIve checks of ot 10 each cacti have havo been u used ed to date dale Of or this hits number lumber two were wert cashed in Ogden Osden ann ana three In Salt Lake One of or the checks is it said to have been cashed at an Ogden OSden cafe fe and In this Instance instance in- in stance tance the lie check was not signed In bum tho lie presence of or the party parly cashing shinG it so 50 there theres Is s no recourse e In Iii other cases case It is said the man signed the checks b by forging the name namo o of Batchelor In th the presence of or the lie persons who cashed them |