Show CHECK H I A ARTIST TI I WORKED MANY UTAH T TOWNS WN r POLICE U SAV A I I I Stolen Used I in Victimizing Business I Houses by Convict Ex-Convict I Peace Officers Assert I OF POLICE J. J PARI PARLEY PAR PAR- C I LEY WHITE has received information that Fred W. W Hos- Hos Hosford ford an convict ex-convict who has been I arrested in Colorado charged with forgery has confessed to obtaining obtaining ob- ob In Salt Lake City Chief White wired for the mans man's picture and descrIption The police believe that may have been the same man who forged a check on Davis Brothers Brothers' grocery In Salt Lake about a month ago for 20 Reports were received from Lehl Lehi American Fork and several several sev- sev eral other small towns regarding the activity of a forger who operated In Inthe inthe the same way durIng the same week weel Although Hosford Is said to to have confessed to obtaining In Salt Lake Lal e the police believe that the authorities of Denver confused his statement and tha he really saId that he had d In Utah Is said to have confessed to obtaining in ht Kansas City Mo 1 In St. St Joseph Mo 1 and several thousand dollars m In San Jose Cal m OLD OFFENDER According to the Colorado ties Hosford Is an old time forger who has given the police of two co con f much worry and who has served a long term In prison for hi misdeeds The forger who operated in Utah Issued several checks which he had printed and which had been stamped with a stolen The police believe that was the man man- who operated here as his methods were the same in Colorado SKILLED PENMAN lie He Was arrested while he Is alleged to have attempted to cash a forged check on the Colorado National bank lie He Is said to have victimized the Colorado Color Colo rado Ranch Aid company and the Charles F F. Jamison company In Denver Dinver Din Den ver by issuing forged checks hecks for large amounts Hosford Is said to be th cleverest penman among the old school scho l lof of criminals |