Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-12-27 | Page 9 | 'Tombstone Forger' Starts Probable 20-Year Term

j jIT IT Tombstone Forger Starts Probable Y 20 Year 20 ear Term William H. H Harl Harkins tombstone forger forge I who was sentenced to an Indeterminate term tenn in the Utah state prison for forgery last Friday after a three year fight waged by Sheriff Den Ben R. R R Harries and his chief criminal deputy W. W r T. T Ayland Ayland Ay- Ay Ayland land was taken to the tho prison Mon Mon- day Judge Chris or the district district district dis dis- court said when he ho sentenced Harkins that he would recommend to the board of pardons that the defendant de do- serve erve twenty years rears Harkins Har liar kins was convicted of forging Roderick Roderick Rod Rod- erick crick McKenzie's name to an 1800 check and cashing It at a local bank McKenzie's printed check and a copy of ot his signature were obtained while Harkins was ostensibly ostensibly osten osten- sibly arranging to have the former erect a monument at his mothers mother's grave