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Show ARHESTED AS A FUClTiVE. W. S. W.l IT, Who Operate.! Ills 1 Ittl. .Hwludllntr (iauia ller. Caught lu Denver W. S. WollT was arrested in this city yesterday by Detective Keno, says the Denver Si', on the charge of being a fugitive from justice. Ou July Hith the chief of police received a letter from J. W. Obis of Salt Lake City, in which it was stated that one V. S. Wolff had swindled him out of $110, and that William T. Darby hud lost $200 by the same man. The pluj of operation which V. S. Wolff is charged with using us-ing was tin giving of a check made payable to himself and signed by his brother, W. S. Wolff. The checks were all drawn ou t ie Atlas National bank of Chicago. V. S. represented that brother was in the brokerage business at Nos. fllMiH Michigan avenue, Salt Lake. Mr. Olds introduced W. 3. Wolff at the State bank of Ogden, aud also indorsed in-dorsed the $15!) check. A few days afterward Mr. Oids received a notice from the bank that the chert: was a fraud. He immediately wrote to the chief of police here, giving a description, descrip-tion, full particulars anil correspondence correspond-ence with Chicago parties. It seems that W . S. Wolff was iu Chicago some tune ago, doing business at the numbers num-bers mentioned. At one time he had a small account in the Atlas National bank, but that hail long since been paid out. Nevertheless checks similar to that which Mr. Olds indorsed had been received nt the bank and thrown out. These amounted to ic irlv . 1 M j: . On July 111, W. S. WoliI registered at the Si. .lames. Detective Kcuo telegraphed tele-graphed to Grand Junction, where the same game was played for $150 on F. G. G ut, and received an answer from Sheriff Cramer to hold W. S. at all haaids. The telegram also stated that a saloon keeper in Aspcu had been swindled out of $200 ou the same game. Jn accordance with the telegram W. S. Wolff was arrested by Dtitecuve Keno yesterday aflernoou ou the corner of Sixteenth and Curtis streets. When line-honed ha stated that V. S. was his cousin, but alterward acknowledged him to be in s brother. Ilossol ihst V -S. could sign hislW. S.'s) mum nearly as well as Im could himself, In short, ho blames his brother for the whole transaction. V. S. Wolff has not yet been arrested. |