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Show hPRISONER GEIS I TAFT MITATiOR i ; OAKLAND. Cal., June 23 Thomas 1 iP. Wickes, serving a six months' sentence sen-tence In the county Jail here for pass- ; ling a fraudulent check, was piaj Ing I cards this afternoon when tho jailer B handed him a large en elope, dated 1 'Washington, D C." Opened, it !proed to be an Invitation from - res-!V res-!V 'ident and Mrs. Taft inviting Wickes Iito be present at the Taft silver wed-, wed-, 'ding. ' "I guess 111 not play more," said I Wickes after a moment of contempla-' contempla-' 'tion, and then went to his cell. J WlckeB was graduated from Yale in I J.187S, a member of the same class as I; President Taft, A few years ago he I ; was a prosperous lawyer In San Fran-I Fran-I 1 'cisco but for a year or so has been -r I earning a precarious llvlihood in this " :f city, A month or 60 ago he was found ,i I gulltj" of obtaining $12 on a worthless I -1 cheel: .. |