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Show Sharpers at Work. Borne smart scoundrel is again working the public with forged checks. Yesterday forenoon n man walked into tho store or B. Petro-wltzki Petro-wltzki on Twentieth street and bought a. wa!cL-r,The purchase amounted to 37.53. Tho party ottered In payment a check for 316 50, drawn on tbe First National Bank of Ogden. The check was dated November 1 4, 1S93, and was mado payable to the order of William Stone, and signed by S. P. Lambert. Mr. 1'etniwiUkI accepted the check and gave the etraugerlhe required change. Vheu tliu tiaper was presented pre-sented at tbe hank for payment it was pronounced worthless, as no such party as Lambert had an account ac-count there. , The matter was. placed in the hands of an ojllcer," wlic, after a siort time, dbcvT.S'red -that another party by tbe name of Chrlslenseu had been duped fpalniost the same manni r, and, front al .aptearancc, by the same tarty. It- was only a sin. re time ago that a number of the buslmss men Were lleeced out of small turns f money by means of forged checks, and it looks as It the scheme was to be rejieaied. Those who were engaged in tho swindle before came to grief, however, how-ever, as several, of them are now confined in tbe penitentiary awaiting await-ing the action of the grand Jury. |