Show CLEVER SWINDLE CHARGED TO TRIO Attorney William Newton S SW W Sears and anda a Ac Accused Accused of Theft STEALS CHECK SAID TO HAVE MANIPULATED i INDORSEMENT INDORSEMENTs s W Sears an architect andl and a of former Governor Wells and Wllliam William Newton a police poUce ourt lawyer are accused of the theft or a check from Peter Olson of Boise Idaho in warrants sworn out Jast night in the tho office of the county attorney Sears was arrested late last night by Axel Steele and John Larson Laron He was taken before belore County Attorney Parley P Christensen whOa were made to secure After several hours delay a 3 ban ball bond of 2000 was signed by Mrs Isabel ear the mother of the prisoner and S Wells WaIls an uncle The bond bonda was a by justice of the Peace Dana T Smith and Sears was released A third warrant was Issued for or n a woman who it is charged stole t I 11 cheek from Olson All three war var runts charge grand larceny in the theft tf r the tho Check Is Stolen warrants w were ro issued by County t Parley P Christensen after nil flu investigation lasting se evral ral days 1 nn to been robbed of the dl tId for and 14 in money in the uH Lake Union bar at 66 East First street t on ChrIstmas nIght by a 3 p No He sa says that the check was Pt In or ed at the time Later the turned up nt at the National Bank BanIe pf ff the lie Republic bearing the signature of Olson and in Olsons For some time the au aut t unable to account for nt but now charge chargo that lt it w s obtained from Olson by Attorney Newton through s Olson says that after he had reported tho theft to the pOllee he met Newt NewtOn n non on the street Newton stated that he WAS an attorney and introduced himself 10 Olson The attorney and the victim went into a bar where Newton up a contract on th the back of a note and then read it to toOl Ol 01 ou nn I Secured Tho contract t purported to retain ns as attorney for vie 1 hn of the robbery agreeing to pay Newton In case ho he recovered the h ck He then told him to sl sign n it It ItIs Is now claimed that the paper signed I Iby by Olson in the saloon aloon was not the promissory note on which the contract was ws drawn u but the reverse of the cheek hf lt and the tho signature made the in indorsement Nowton has the thc contract which was drawn up nii by hImself and has the nm name Olson signed to It but the signature on the contract Is 15 now to be the forgery and the one on the chock the one which Olson thought he was signing to the con contract contract tract Check Is Cashed The Tho cheek was cashed at the National Rank of the Republic b by S W V Sears who vho re received ed th for it The che cheek k sent to the Pin Pingree ee bank at Ogden on which It was originally drawn but pa payment ment on It had been by 01 and it was waa returned to the Salt Lake bank The pollee wr notIfied and Sears Scars W arrested Friday by Detective Chase After an Investigation by Assistant County Attorney Job Lyon Jyon Soars Sears was wa released from custody at t that time HIs stor story p of his con with the affair wa that he was approached b by Olson at the ba r and asked to ca cash h the check After Conversation he did SO and says that OLson put his signature on the of the Olson on the other that he never saw Sears be beI I for or in his Newton eWton in his version of the affair F that he m mt t Olson on Christmas night on the th street and that he told m or of his hi loss lIo Ho saW said he told Olson he was nn an attorney and drew up the th for to sign He says that the contract was signed by Olson and 34 14 made an appointment to meet Olson following afternoon but that lie he to put in an n Ho He says lw h knows nothing about the check ah r than what w wa him by t aU hour this morning Newton to poll e headquarters in u IL hack and ga r himself up |