Show SALT LAK POLICE MAKE QUICK CATCH M C Howard Is Arrested Fifteen Fifteen teen Minutes After Receipt of Telegram IS WANTED FOR FORGERY FLOODED OM OMAHA HA WITH CH CHECKS ECKS AGGREGATING Just fifteen minutes after acter a tele telegram telegram gram had been received from the Omaha pOlice department requesting that search be made for M C Howard wanted for forgery the Salt Lake po lIc lice e had him bun at pOlice headquarters and had almost gained a confession from him that he had flooded Omaha with witt forged checks amounting to Howard is a bar bartender bartender tender According to the telegram he left Omaha about a week ago after forging the names of saloon keepers to thirty checks which ho had cashed Chief hief of Detectives George Sheets says as that this Is a for speedy arrest outshining the previous record of the Omaha police who ar arrested arrested rested Frank Williams the colored burglar of the Paris cleaning works last ast December just thirty minutes after they had received the telegram from the Salt Lake police pollee department Admits Identity When the telegram arrived last night Detective George Chase was assigned to find Howard He re remarked remarked marked casually t that at any Omaha man would naturally visit the Omaha sa saloon saloon loon on First Soth between Main and Vest Temple streets and went there He had but entered the saloon when he wa attracted by a big man lean leanIng leaning Ing against a cigar counter The de description of Howard furnished by the Omaha police him like a new suit sult of clothes clothe Is Ig your name Howard asked De Detective Chase You bet It Is answered the man and Im from Omaha Charlie How Howard Howard ard Is what they call me In William Jennings Bryans state I presume that you are a Howard gave his age as 39 9 years He said that he had worked as a bar bartender bartender tender in Omaha since he was a young man and that he was known by practically practically every saloon keeper in Ne Nebraska Nebraska braska |