Show LICE SEEK ROMANTIC SPANIARD AS SWINDLER I CIGAR CICA AROMA NT NETS CA CASH CASHS H S fOR FOIl A ALIE U N NIRA IRA TRAVELERS Two Foreigners Operate in Bingham Obtaining Order Orders Or Or- Orders ders der for Smokes by False Pretense Charge H B V B ARE of a romantic S L looking Spaniard who is accompanied by a Frenchman That warning was sent by hy the Bingham police to Salt Lake today A description received I from rom the mining town of S S. S Garcia 25 years old the Spaniard rn- rn b by an urgent request that hebe he hebe be captured and held for official official- of ot otI Bingham led to further inquiries and ond I f revealed what was alleged to be one of the most interesting swindles p- p pr Jr r- r r- r in Utah for some som tm time Garcia accompanied I by y his Ii Fl French companion who seems to to have kept in n the background d' d f ix t tj r mining town yesterday morning The Spaniard wore a dark darl s suit it a wide wll brim brimmed ed felt hat and nd i was as Ji h romantic and interesting in appearance appearance appear appear- ance it is said There was a decidedly decidedly de de- decidedly de- de foreign air about both visitors and It was rumored that they were dukes or at least counts According to the Bingham police Garcia soon announced that he was wasa a cigar merchant direct front from Havana Cuba and that owing to a hasty decision decision decision de de- to go out of business he was wa selling seIlIng a a high grade Cuban cigar ata at ata ata a very reasonable price When he found a prospective customer customer cus cus- cus tomer tomer- he would present him with a cigar from his stock and the smoker smoker- Invariably found it excellent The police state that the victim would then be desirous of purchasing a astock astock astock stock at once Garcia and his companion obtained large orders it is said but the de deliveries deliveries de- de deliveries liveries were no not made until just be before before before be- be fore they left town According to Bingham authorities the purchaser soon found that the only Cuban cl cigar ar in his stock had been the one presented him by the alleged swindler and the rest were of the kind which retail at 10 a thousand An interesting feature of the affair is that Garcia and his companion visited the same town eight years ears ago and perpetrated the the- same swindle according to the police pollee It was never learned the true extent of their al alleged alleged alleged al- al operations then as many promInent prominent prominent prom prom- citizens kept their losses secret for tor fear of the ridicule of those who had escaped Rev F F. D. D Diss was on one of the big purchasers of th the Cuban cigars Father Diss Dis bought ten boxes for a Knights of ot Columbus banquet and and- when he discovered the swindle heI he ho notified the police pollee and swore to the complaint charging them with ith the I alleged offense The Bingham ham police state that the swindlers have in their possession a ai i peculiar large box bus of dark wood bound with heavy metal straps and I ornamented with an antique lock It is feared b by the I police pollee olice that the they may include another swindle in their repertoire and that the mysterious box figures largely In it 11 |