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Show CHECK SWINDLER AIDED IN CRIME BY FARM ATTIRE Merchants Are Fooled by Crook Who Looks Like Farm Laborer. Sioux Falls, S. D The northwest has been invaded this summer by one of the most dangerous and expert professional pro-fessional check swindlers who have operated in South Dakota and other states for years. What aids in making mak-ing him so dangerous in carrying on his check-swindling operations is the fact that he goes about in the attire of a farmhand. To all intents and purposes he is just a common farmhand, such as are seen by thousands at this season of the year when farmers are commencing commenc-ing to harvest their small grain crops and require extra bunds to help take care of their work. Makes Small Purchases. When the swindler strikes a town he appears to make a practice of ascertaining as-certaining the names of farmers living liv-ing remote from the towns. Then he enters a place of business and makes a purchase of some article costing only a few dollars. It may be a repair part for a harvesting har-vesting machine or some other small article needed on the farm, and then tenders in payment a check purport- I j .l Tenders in Payment a Check Purporting Purport-ing to Have Been Signed by a Farmer. I ing to have been signed by a fanner whose name seems familiar to the ( people in the store. The cheeks ten-tiered ten-tiered by him always are for a sum much greater than llie amount of his j hurcliav. Fooled by Appearance. He may tender a ' or ;"'". or a j Sjo check in payment for a purchase j amoiiiniiig to a few dollars, invariably , receiving the dilVeience in cash, j When the name signed to llie check j is discovered to he a forgery, the ! swindler has disappeared. In some of 1 1 1 smaller (owns he has victinii'.'.ed j different merchants and then made his gel aw ay. Not w il hstanding thai the Slate I'.ankeis' association sent out a warning warn-ing concerning his operalions, he continues con-tinues to find victim among business men who are deiviwd by llie fact that lie presenls Hie appearance of being a real "dirt" fanner. Il is e-. iuial eil that thus far during a period of n few weeks, he has swindled business men out of several thousand dollars. Jailed for Whipping Daughter ; Won't Leave Lexington, K.v. Arresled on a war-1 war-1 rant sworn out by his wife, charging him with assault and hallery by whipping whip-ping his slxteenyear-ohl daughter, Chester I.nytarl was coinmllled lo the Harrison county Jail at Cynlhlami, 1 Ky fifty miles north of here, lo await examining trial. I.iiylnrt Is amply able : lo furnish bond, but declared Hint he ' would stay in jail as long as there was ! one stone upon another, before he would furnish bond In the case. Lnjlarl claims that his daughter disobeyed him when he told her to i milk the cows, and cites the scriptures I as authority for enforcing obedience I from his daughter. The uniiiie ease Is causing a decided sensallou In Harrison Har-rison county, where the Laylarls reside, re-side, nnd it Is expected that the courthouse court-house will he packed to lis capacity when l.aylail is brought lo trial. |