Show BAD CHECK GASHED CASHED BY BANK OFFICIALS But Game of J. J W. W Bruce Is Quickly Discovered and He Is Pursued J. J W. W Bruce former foreman of or a construction company at work on n time tho I new now Judge building is chare charged with wan forging the time name of or his employer George G orbe A. A Smith to a check cheek for Y soon aft after r tho the check was ca cashed hed the tho forgery was discovered and an Mr Smith was notified Bruce has been working at the Judge building three months Shortly i after noon Monday lon ar Bruce and his wife I left their rooms at East First South street t and went down town Atthe Atthe At Atthe the National Bank of ot the time Republic Bruce it is said secured a blank check He returned later hater with It made out pa ablo to him for an and purporting purporting pur pur- porting to be signed ned by b George A. A Smith The alleged forgery was so sowell sowell sowell well executed that it was almost Im- Im ImpossIble possible to distinguish it from tho signature signature sig sig- nature of Mr Smith The Time police pollee say that it is the best beat forgery that has come Into their hands for a long time and that it la is a mystery how time the clerk at tho the bank discovered It to be len lent t. t Before leaving Bruce had an extremely extremely ex ex- heated conversation with his landlady over his board bill Dill W S lIH d to Several a ago h li tol told his landlady that he had re received received re re- a telegram that th-at his wife's mother mothel moth moth- would leave leavo Monday Mon Mon- er or was sick and he day lIe He told her he had a check for and would woul pay hl hi his bill when ho h cashed It lie Ho however showed plainly plain plain- ly iy that he ho tried to evade paying this bill an and it was only after aCter his trunk was wa a heM hell from him that he consented to do so It Il is believed ell that Bruce left heft Salt Lake p. Police Pollee In Og Ogden en and the surrounding surrounding sur sur- rounding towns have havo been heen notified to tobe tobe tobe be on the lookout for tor him Men who have havo known Bruce Druce sometime some sometime time say his game seems to be to work worl In a town Ion long enough to get got acquainted acquaint acquaint- e ed at the bank and then to forgo forge his employers employer's name Bruce was well known to the tellers in the tho National Bank of the no Republic public He ha had cashed checks drawn on Mr Smith before and arid they did not question his check Monday r S |