Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1902-06-24 | Page 5 | Did Not Work Here

DID NOT WORK HERE But San Sa Francisco co Swindler Had Salt SaltS S Lake Bank Dank An alleged all ged bank swindler who o seems to have bave more names barnes than Carter had oats and au has haa papers that he h probably operated in Salt Lake is IA un tin under under tindee der dee arrest In San Francisco on n a charge of plying his trade there Information Information tion from freni that plane place says 18 he is 18 regarded re rde by Ity the police poUce as a one on of the smoothest swindlers that was WN ever trapped upped The Th man who gave ve the time name of J B s Black when arrested was w stopping at one of the Inc nn Hotels of the city and appeared a ared to be a high roller in wealth He H was arrested arre ted there for swindling a bank out of a large amount amoun t i on bogus bocus drafts and bank books looks and papers found in his h s pockets DOckets showed that he has been operating upon banks and throughout the west Salt Lake Included In his hI hl DOS possession was found a plate from which w lIch certificates from the Na National Ders association could be printed when he desired them And these it is 18 said were ut used uS te t make his graft successful tul His HI trick it is said was as to deposit a draft in a bank then draw dra 1 out a 8 certain amount and deposit some cash Then Timen anther another ant ther draft would be deposited and a large Jarge amount would be drawn out Of course when it was found that the drafts were worthless Black would be missing In his possession J was wu found a bank bankbook bankbook bankbook book of the National Bank enk of ot the Re Republic public of ef thin 8 city otty but inquiry at t that bank yesterday failed to show that he had attempted att his graft grait there th re The officials of the bunk bank knew nothing ot of him and had hac found no bogus drafts