Show ALLEGED SWINDLER A AT T END ENI OF ROPE Said to Have Bought a Bank in Washington With Forged Notes of Boston Men SPOKANE Wash June Tune 21 21 Chas H. H Lyon former president of the First National National National Na Na- bank of Mount Vernon Washington Washing Washing- ton was placid placed in custody here charged with colossal swindling which will aggregate aggregate aggregate ag ag- ag- ag sixteen thousand dollars Probably Probably Probably ably twelve counts will be preferred against him His scheme seems to have been an extraordinarily ex ex- Ingenious one He appeared ap ap- ap- ap reared eared In Mount lount Vernon a few months ago and bought the stock of one shareholder shareholder shareholder share share- holder in the Mount Vernon bank for He ITe paid for the stock in forged notes of ot Boston millionaires and the inspecting bank officials cashed these forged securities When arrested here securities said to tobe tobe tobe be forged amounting to were found In his possession Two of the documents were drafts signed by the cashier of ot the Mount Vernon bank The drafts are pronounced forgeries Lyon was trying to buy a bank at Moscow Idaho when arrested here |