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Show ALLEGED FORGERY CHARGE IS FILED AGAINST PROVO KU KLUX KLAN LEADER Klan Organizer Disappears Suddenly While Provo Men Who Befriended Him Are "Out" Financially. LEAVES IN LARGE CAR, BOUGHT HERE M. R- Yant, organizer of the Ku Klux Klan of Provo is w sought by the police on a charge of alleged forgery r telegrams have been sent to officers in various parts of the j idjoining- states asking that Yant be arrested and held for the tab county authorities. $ A complaint has been issued against Yant by F. G " Richmond, cashier of the Provo Commercial and Savings v Wk alleging that Yant had defrauded the bank of $365 paid U on a draft made by himself and purported to be drawn Jn the First National Bank of Elko, Nevada, on which, he had Wed the named of A. F. Singleton of the Telluride Motor " Eompany, as endorser. Yant, his wife and two children left Provo hurriedly early Friday morning and has not been heard from since that time. . Descriptions were wired immediately, although the complaint : mw not signed until Tuesday noon. 1 '- lant first arrived in Provo lost I Lrember from Elko, Nev., to or-1 or-1 janize a local unit of the Ku Klux - Klan tore. After lookiug the city ier for a few days he returned to ! tavada. He came back to Provo at the be-dnning be-dnning of this year since which time Until he suddenly disappeared Fri-lay Fri-lay morning he had been actively waged In the organization work " ilthe Klan. The first intimation that all was " ( aa it should be in the affairs ((! ,f lant, came Friday morning when di lie young Provo woman who had teen employed for some time as sectary sec-tary at the Klan office on West fnter street arrived and found that ' ' tint and his family and most of his Mongings were gone from the ipartment. j, People living in an adjoining ipartment explained that the Yauts j, ad left about 3 o'clock that morn-if. morn-if. It wns a few hours later that the lews of the forgery at the Commer- ' ill bank wns revealed. It also developed that Yant, on tanrsdnjr night had purchased a lew Nash sedan from the Jackson Wor company on which he had ,24 inde'a small down payment and a' econd-bnnd car In trade. , A clear Itle to the old car was given by lant, although It was later learned " a Provo woman from whom Yant had purebnsed the old car still held I title-retnining note for the car k the $150 still unpaid on the same. Two Provo business men, it is famed, had signed with Yant on mutter draft lor $-150 which ' he cashed at a local bank. This money, it is said, the business men have :ktn asked to pay to the bank on be return from Nevada of the draft. Another business man is reported p have been more lucky In that the fait for $025 which he signed with lant, went through the Elko bank rtile there were still funds to cover tlie same. The sudden departure of the Klan organizer has created considerable !tlr la Klan circles In Provo. |