Show I WAS OUR AD AII TIIVT Hut His Tears Failed to Bring Uncle the Casli anti He Went to Jni Nathan Swabacker a traveling man a arrested as he was about to leave town Saturday night for passing a forged check for 50 on N W Bender a West Park street liquor dealer The forged paper bore the name of H L Frank and the signature was a very clever imitation Swabacker was I traveling for a distillery at Peoria Ill i I owned by his brothers and Mr Bender i cannot account for his passing the check a he had authority to draw on the firm for funds Swabacker had only 54S5 In money when arrested a sw hours after passing the check He I i i had bought a great Northern ticket to i Sioux City Iowa and was prepared to I leave for the east I The prisoner was brought down from I the county jail this morning to Judge Aimons court for arraignment on the charge of forgery He first 1 forerJ frst entered a T plea of guilty but after having a long talk with Mr Bender withdrew the plea and was given until 10 oclock tomorrow to-morrow morning to make his plea He was advised to consult an attorney in the meanwhile Svabacker burst into tears several times while talking to Mr Bender and begged the latter to withdraw the charge and allow him togo to-go home by the next train He promised pro-mised faithfully he would send the money back at once and said he was anxious to spare his wife and children the shame and mortification that would come to them if they learned of the affair Mr Bender would listen to I no such proposition He knows the prisoners brothers and father are quiet f 1 t jw wealthy and he gave Swabacker plainly I to understand that the money must be paid at once or the charge would be pushed I is believed Swabacker will make an extraordinary effort to have the matter adjusted but he seems disinclined dis-inclined to telegraph home for funds I is probable the money will be returned re-turned to Mr Bender before tomorrow and Swabacker allowed to depart for home He was taken back to jail and locked upButte InterMountain |