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Show ALLEGED ADVERTISING SWINDLES ARRESTED. Gorge Hayes, Charged With Uttering Utter-ing Fictitious Paper In Seattle. SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 1. Charged with swtndllng advertisers In Seattle, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Portland for sums aggregating $"-00,000, George Hayes, alias George Norton, is In the city prison charged with uttering a fictitious instrument. instru-ment. He has several confederates, it is said, and, while working in league with them, the police claim he has obtained large ums of money from many prominent prom-inent firms on the coast, the extent of his operations, it is said, aggregating several hundred thousand dollars. Hayes was taken into custody at tho iruitanoe of Philip Beckeart fc Co., manufacturers, of this city, to whom he represented himself as collector for the Western Reference company. He had already obtained $S0 from the firm on an advertising contract, and maae advances for $0U additional on an entirely different contract. ,. 4 . . .: |