Show I I i I fORGER I TAKEN BY Through an acid burn on hi his left hand hanc Alex Wanless Vanless of West Vest Ninth South street was arrested this morning by Dei Detective De De- Earl r 1 Ripley and confessed f s to t th the forgery i of a check k for g 18 to which h he signed the name of John Sharp Sarp former forme state fish and game commissioner anc and later three more checks were WEre traced t to him The Sharp i check was passed last las Saturday on C. C II L' W. W Bowers jeweler a at 24 South Main street Wanless Vanless bought bough a ring and a pair of cuff buttons giving the 18 8 18 check and receiving the balance balanc in money The check cheek passed by Wanless is of ot a anew anew new series seres not yet issued from the Magazine Magazine Maga Maga- zine zinc Printing company It I was found a athe at atthe atthe the printing office that a friend had visited visited vis- vis vis Is one of the employees last Saturday Bowers remembered that the Ule young man who passed the check had an acid scar seas season on the hand and the visitor in the printing office also had a burn Wanless works at the Ule Roya Royal laundry where Detective Ripley went last night but was wa ten minutes late The young man mat did not go home until late last night and the detective gave up the task until this thi this morning when he was arrested on going to work The check was made payable to Carl Johnson Johson by John Sharp and is drawn on the Deseret National bank This afternoon Detective Ripley found fount three other checks which had been held up in the clearing house and were each traced to Wanless One was passed on the State Street Shoe store where Wanless Wanless Wanless Wan Wan- less bought a pair of shoes and ad gave a cheek check chek for 15 made out to George Harris Harri and signed by Thomas A. A Birkinshaw Another was cashed at the Carter Jewelry Jewelry Jew Jew- elry dry company where Wanless Vanless presented presente a check for tor 18 after buying a watch chain for tor 6 6 receiving the 12 in change He also bought a bracelet valued at 1 10 from the Surbaugh Jewelry company in inthe inthe inthe the McCornick building receiving 5 In change on the the 15 check Each of ot the thelast thelast thelast last three checks check's checks found this afternoon were signed with the name o or ot Thomas A A. A Birkinshaw and are aro all forgeries The Vhs check chEck presented at Carters Carter's Is made payable payable payable pay pay- able to Albert Wallace and the one passed at Surbaugh's is made payable to Harry Wallace Vallace Just as long as the business men o of Salt Lake City are so gullible this passing passing pasIng pass pass- pas pas- ing of ot forged and worthless checks will wll wi continue said a member of the police department this afternoon That could coul not be done in another city In the United States at the rate rte it is followed in Sal Salt Sal Lake City It is a cinch to p pass bogus checks almost any ya yaP P place the place l the e ep merchants seldom make inquiries inquires as a to whether tho the check is good Some day maybe they will wi wake waIte up and will wi pay check checks only when they know they are good But unless un un- Unless Un- Un less lra lr hear a of change this rel re l kind comes f of you business can I expect all rt t the to time Wanless Vanless gave no excuse to the police for forthe forthe forthe the forgeries further than that he ho needed the money and this suggested Itself as the best scheme |