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Show VAKRAir PRACTICES FRENZIED FINANCE Police Looking Cor Charles Porter. Por-ter. Who Owns a Ready Pen. i Charles Porter, a vagrant, turned financier, fin-ancier, Is being sea relied for by l he police department high and low on the charge of Indorsing other persons' names to checks and cashing them. He will be charged with ohtainlng money under false protenses or forgery in case lie is caught. Porter is alleged to have cashed a check for ?17.50 in' the Orplieum saloon Saturday Satur-day night, to which he Indorsed the fictitious fic-titious name of Charles A. "Whitney, to whom the check purported to be payable. pay-able. The check was on the National Bank of the Republic, and bore the date of April 4. It also boro the stamp of Tuttle Bros., real estate dealers, and purported to have been signed by George A. Tuttle, a fictitious name. That the check Is a forgery throughout Is the charge of the police. The proprietor of the Orplieum saloon says he saw Porter, whoso name is well known, lo him. sign "Whitney's name to the check when he cashed It. and inquired when he had changed-his name. Porter replied something to the effei't that the signing of Whitney's name was a dream of his. Porter later returned lo the Orplieum saloon, the proprietor says, with a cheek for 5" that he asked tho saloon to cash. Thq saloon refused tu i-anh this check, however, and . afturwards learned that Porter had tried to cash a check for SL7 at the Crystal bar. Porter was sentenced to servo fifty days in the chain gang a little more than two months ago. He was released March 15. |