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Show CACHE COUNTY MAN WRITES BAD CHECKS Deputy Sheriff Hobson Charges New Operations Against Blacksmith of Clarkston, Special to The Tribune. OGDEN, May 27 That Joseph Setters, Set-ters, a blacksmith of Clarkston, Cache county, who was released from the county coun-ty jail Tuesday, after having served a ' sentence for issuing worthless checks, has a penchant for obtaining money by that method, is the opinion of J L. Hobson, deputy sheriff. Setters has been jailed again on a similar charge. The deputy said the "blacksmith issued two checks for $S0 each and endeavored to cash another for $126. At the store of the C. J. Herrick company of Ogden, it is charged. Setters Set-ters ordered nearly $S0 worth of furniture furni-ture and gave a check for more than the amount, and later purchased through the check medium about $S0 worth of harness from a Twenty-third street firm. It was said that in both cases he received re-ceived small amounts in change. When he appeared at the J. B. Lewis jewelry store on Washington avenue he issued a check for $12(i in payment for a quantity of jewelry which he had ordered, tut left the store when tho management sought time in which to verify the paper. Inasmuch as the alleged bad checks are for amounts that total more than $50, the offense constitutes a felony. |