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Show 0 1BBESKD: s(f Trie to Play a Very Sharp :ick But Gets Caught in the Act. n jffo BOGUS CHECKS, jiored Bootblack to Get One of ;ed When Officer Matthews geared and Nabbed Him. l,.i,v wa to-day arrested and tk ciJ' J:ul t0 auswer t0 a 1 forgery- id to playa vory sharp game rtiHit ut it. This nioriiingr. ihiiiK of ft dude, ho got a l,i,tlciiiaii, who keeps a stand White House corner, to Maek When the j" ws to satisfaction, lit) found that ho wll(v willi which to pay, and iK'tiiowght himself that lie had .,rIO, drawn by Charles Crano Hols, largo & Co. bank He gave it to the boot j'aieil liim to go ami got it ;llul he would wait until ho ',,..!; the change. uo little after 11 o'clock this ai,d just us tho bootblack ,llic bank Officer Matthews lite pass tho door of tho bank ,1 the cashier say to the col-jciiun col-jciiun that the check was a md that lie eottld get no money 'his attracted Officer Matthews' ami ho followed the boot-urn boot-urn the street, and stoppiug ,d him what the conversation iht overheard meant. Ajretl man at once disclaimed iiv connection with the check J the officer how it had come iossessiun. Ho said that ho I the man would still bo wait-his wait-his change, anyway, he that he could easily liud aw, he said, had told Crane gave lilni tho ml tod them gone south to li. Siccus sent the boot black to tell r of the refusal of the check to :.di1 himself taking a different rrived at the White house cor-' in time to uab the rly young to at first insisted that the all right hut whim the officer im about Crane's whereabouts, prgntlen the story ho orgiually boot black and sprang au cuts- one. tiie way to the .station Shaw came down off horse aud asked Officer Mat-he Mat-he thought that he would get ix months this time ami -Said bad been playing in' awfully ik recently. i Shaw was searched at the eta-ise eta-ise another check was found on on. It was also for $10 and was by Joseph Shaw on the Bank of ilc and was made payable to Crane, just the opposite from t check, which was drawn by Crane anil payable to. Joseph is a young man probably 26 il-aud was recently a waiter fhite house. m Crane, whose name was o the check, is the well known raiser and tho owner of the f"WinR in which the Bank of Mislbcatod will have a hearing tomorrow. |