Show CAUGHT A fORGfRr j 1 now A AI BAREETT ETC ARRIVED AT SAN DIEGO I Requisition Papers Issued For Him Yesterday Two More Worthless Check Turned I to the Police Assistant County Atorney Ray Van Cott yesterday made out papers for I the extradition of J B Rowan from the state of California who Is wanted hereto I here-to answer to a charge of forgery The I I charge Is that on Sept 4 last Rowan crged a check for 365 drawn on the erman Bank of Evansvllle Ind and signed by the Grote Manufacturing iiiipan also of jtvansviiie The signature sig-nature is claimed to be a forgery Rowan went to the National Bank of i the Republic In this city opened an account 1 j count there and deposited the check I He said in quite a nonchalant manner man-ner that he didnt rreant to draw j against I and left I to be credited to t his account The following I day how i n1ufla i ever he checked out the full amount and disappeared and in a few days I the forgery was discovered 1 He vas arrested recently at San Diego Cal and is held there waiting the arrival of the Utah officers with the requisition for his return to this state Iowan has evidently been passing a number of checks under different t ames On the 12th of the present month a man appeared at the Deseret j National bank and gave his name as I WillIam Barnett He presented a draft i on the Holland bank of Springfield j 1 i Mo for 500 and asked the Salt Lake i j I i house to collect it The check was accepted I cepted and he was given a memorandum memoran-dum receipt for same and that was the last seen of him The check vas sent j on to the Springfield institution and I I returned to the Deseret National bank I with the information that it was a for ery IOn IOn I-On the 17th Matt Rhodes sergeant in charge of the police here received a telegram from J S Owens sheriff of Springfield Mo which directed him to arrest William Barnett Barnett Bar-nett is wanted in that place for having forged the check which was taken by the Deseret National bank Upon receipt of the telegram Rhodes bean to investigate the matter and learned the facts as stated above Also that Barnett had gone to Sacramento Cal and presented the memorandum I receipt furnished him by the Salt Lake house to the banking place of D O Mills of that place In some manner Barnett received some money from Mills on the receipt While in Salt Lake Barnett who Is I supposed to be Rowan stopped at the Manltou but left that place soon after he had made his call upon the Deseret bank This information was telegraphed I graphed to Owens at Springfield Later Sergeant Rhodes learned that Barnett was being held in San Diego Cal on a I charge of forgery and that fact was also telegraphed tr tbe nthorites > t I Springfield In California Barnett gave the name of Frank AKiveen and wokcu several cheeks off there a r 0 The police received three more checks yesterday whch have proved to be worthless The three checks were Identical iden-tical all being drawn on the Utah National Na-tional bark for the sum of 940 l three checks were numbered 411 made payable to Joseph Tremont signed Frank a Cartney and dated Jan 25 1R9S The endorsements were all started with the name of Joseph Tre mont but one bore the additional endorsement en-dorsement of Hepworth Sons and I also the Union Produce company Another An-other bore the endorsement of J P Gardner and the third that of Mayer the butcher The man who passed the checks has not yet been apprehended 0 I was reported to the police yesterday yester-day that a man named Heene had stolen a pair of trousers from a Main street merchant He was caught in the at by a woman who gave the alarm and Heene lied up the alley just north of Lannans meat shop He dropped the zrarment In the alley and disappeared disap-peared before the officers arrived < 0 Lewd women deposited 260 yesterday In fines |