Show UNCO S OGDEN Man Nan Believed to Be Clever Swindler Captured After Exciting Chase S FIve minutes before the afternoon train pulled out of the Union depot for Butte Butto a man who gave gae his name as us M 11 Web Webber Webber Vebber ber believed by the police to be a clever swindler was placed under arrest and taken to police pollee headquarters It is claimed that Webber represented himself to be a merchant of Salt Lake with a place of business on Commercial treet street and visited a number of Ogden houses at which he lie made purchases and then tendered chocks checks In payment As usual the checks would he be much larger than the amount of the bill and in turn he secured cash for the balance At Paine store he lie tendered a personal check fur for 15 in payment for certain articles which tIC lio selected and ordered shipped to Salt Lake and anI re received received 30 0 change The reason as ex explained explained explained that he was wag given the money Y was wason wason wason on account of or previous dealings d with the firm firmAt firmAt S SAt At another store he selected a miscellaneous miscellaneous laneous lot of clothing and offered to pay pa for the same with a check of large de denomination denomination denomination nomination Payment by the check was refused He Ire then tried to borrow 10 from one of the firm until money mone arrived from Salt Sail Lake for 0 which he said he had telegraphed This also was denied All of ot the tile checks offered by Webber were drawn on the Commercial National bank of o Salt Lake with the exception n of one that was drawn on the Webber bank an Institution believed to be a myth Webber ebber pursued the same tactics at a number numbe of oC local establishments and upon his representation or of being a Salt Lake merchant Ht it Is claimed he obtained a i large larKe sum of money and then boarded a atrain atrain atrain train for Salt Lake The case was reported to the police pollee and Officer Fred Tout was wa detailed to pur pursue sue Rue UH 1114 fellow to Salt Lake LaUe Upon ar arriving arriving arriving riving In Salt Lake Tout discovered that the man had left the train at Layton and boarded jJ a train for the Uie north there thereby thereby by b giving him the slip This discovery r was promptly telephoned to headquarters hero and Officer Burk effected Webbers ebbers arrest Th The arrest was not accomplished 1 however until after the he officer bad on given up tip hope He accidentally learned learn d that there was a man ko o in one of QC o othe the berths of ot ofa a sleeping cs c who an answered answered answered the description d of Webber ebber and he hI was found apparently enjoying a nap It is la believed that Webber secured In Inthe Inthe the neighborhood of ot In Ogden |