Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-10-22 | Page 31 | Police Arrest Check Suspect

POLICE ARREST CHECKSUSPECT Police claimed Friday a balance on the credit side of the crime ledger, having under arrest a suspect sus-pect in the paaaing of a aeriea of fictitious checka, a guilty plea on another check charge, a auapect In a burglary and two alleged shoplifters, shop-lifters, while new unsolved crimes were a passkey burglary and pilfering pil-fering of a grocery truck. Detective Chester R. Colborn believed be-lieved a long string of bad checks rleared up with the arrest of A. R. Scofield. 41. State parole agents took him into custody at his Davis county home and brought him to the Salt Lake City Jail for Investigation. Investi-gation. Records show the suspect tcr have been paroled from the slats prison last Saturday, having been sentenced sen-tenced June 1, 1B36, on a forgery charge. Checks have been paaaed at a number of furniture storea, hotels and other establishments. Detective Detec-tive Colborn said checka had been made out for the exact amount of furniture purchased and officers are striving to discover what disposal dis-posal was made of the furniture thus purchased. Merlin L. Rice. . allegedly on parole from a California penal institution, in-stitution, waa held for Investigation of the recent burglary of the business busi-ness establishment of Milton Dorius, 127 East Fourth South street Albert Freudenthal, 3.1, who ad, rutted passing a IS bad check at a pharmacy, pleaded guilty to the charge and was aentenced by City Judge B. P. Leverich to six months in the city Jail, suspended on condition con-dition he pay court casta and make the check good. Two boys, and 10 years old. were arrested for allegedly having taken three watches from a department de-partment store and small merchandise merchan-dise from 10-cent storea. A paaakey burglar obtained two rings from the home of Earl N. Fulmer, 140 Sixth East street Loot from the truck of Albert Reed, 80 South Eighth West street, reada like a boarding house grocery order IS grapefruit, 60 pounds of bananas, three heads of lettuce and 15 dozen eggs.