Show FORGED CHECKS BECAUSE Of LOIE Man an Arrested in Salt Lake Gave Gains to His Wife H I COMES OF GOOD FAMILY Y QUARRELS WITH FATHER BUT MOTHER STANDS BY HIM Arthur Potter son of t a wealthy we Colo Cob Colorado Colorado rado banker arrested in Salt Lake fo for forgery and taken back to Detroit Mich to stand trial began his career career as a for forger forger forger ger to support his divorced wife whom he still loves and whom he h married d against the wishes s of his parents The forged checks issued by him within the past two years It Is Js said have netted him and of this amount his wife has received Since their divorce Potter has been ai an outcast from his family Secretly he m ml met methis t his wife and gave her large amounts o of money which he declared was an allow allowance allowance ance from his father His former wire wile knew kne nothing of the time forgeries Meets Divorced Wife The story of o Potters downfall was pul PUI in iii the Detroit D holt News the day da fo to lowing his arraignment nt when he was wa sen sento s sent nt to the county count jail to await pi preliminary eliminate hearing He met meL his former wife in Cei Cea trai City Colo Cole After iter a brief courtship he h went to his father and amid told him he wante to marry His father and mother ob olt objected and protested protest d against it t but i im vein saip 3 An Mi Iop ment followed and thim came the th usual reconciliation In the favored son was taken back am amid helped to make a living Jiving for himself ammi an J wife Trouble followed and latem a di divorce divorce vorce suit was filed flied and a degree e granted rhe The Potter family got their son to leave lea ve Mrs Potter and come back to his home In Colorado The love for his imis wife wite con comm continued and he told his father that his hit wife wite needed nee cd SO 80 per month to support s her This angered his father and it Was refused him He would turn thief and crook before he would allow his former wife to want for anything He left ills his home hom and commended ed his career of crime He visited Ann Arbor He Ht was well known there having been in the university for lor several years ears His reputation as a rich mans son enabled him to collect 50 from the treasurer of the university He went through several towns in Michigan aa 1 Illinois where he worked his friends for forsman small amounts Then he went to Lo Detroit where he presented two checks for 1000 each at the Dime Savings bank He wis acquainted there and told that he had come to buy up some mining stocks The lh checks bore his hi fathers signatures and amid nd they were cashed on the strength of It Friend Cashes His Check He is believed to have visited William Golden a retired Pittsburg business man whom he Induced to cash a check for him amounting to Golden knew Potter when wh n he was a boy and ana cashed the check chee without any an amm suspicion Golden refuses to give the particulars of the story stor but came cam cameto to Detroit with his attorney when Pot Potter Potter Potter ter was brought back to Detroit from Salt Sal t Lake He turned another trick in Chicago it itis itis is said and turned the money moner over to his wife She deserted him there and lie he started west H went to 10 Denver Dener where he was in communication with his mother but not with his father Then he pushed push d doit on oit to the coast where he went we broke and tramped his way wa back to Salt Sail Lake He was traced trac d to this city by s sand I and arrested arr sted His father sent an attorney to Salt Lake to see se his son The younger Potter was in rags and the attorney attorn y at atthe atthe atthe the fathers request quest r bought him a suit of cloths to make him presentable He was in disguise when he came to Salt Lak His brown hair hall was mixed with gray lochs locks which he had bleached out with peroxide of hydrogen Potter is being bein defended de ended by b a first class law firm whose services were secured by b his mother She was unable to his bail ball but everything ver thing is being done to lo clear him of his crimes I |