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Show TBHMY JACK SAID TO DAI 8EEI CAUGHT Sheriff Thomas DeVlne has received word that a man answering the description de-scription of J. J. Turner, ' has been arrested at Buckhorn, Nevada, and will be held In custody until the arrival ar-rival of Weber county o'fflcers. Recently Re-cently Turner escaped from the Preston, Pres-ton, Idaho, jail, where he was being held for bootlegging. He was brought to Ogden by an officer a few weeks ago to testify In the case of Mrs. Louise Van Dyke Turner, his former wife,, against the Ogden Savings bank, to recover something some-thing over $5000 "which was claimed to have been secured 'from the bank on forged receipts. Turner was arrested last fall charged charg-ed with the forgeries but the case became be-came complicated and the district attorney at-torney dismissed the Information, but since having an Investigation made of the writings and receipts, compared with Turner's writings by the expert Theodore Kytka, who testified In the Martin case. District Attorney John C. Davis filed a complaint against Turner charging him with forgery, since which time the officers have been looking for him. Sheriff DeVine will leave for Buckhorn this evening, expecting to return with his prisoner tomorrow or Saturday The case against Turner is pending In the municipal mu-nicipal court and Turner will be given giv-en a preliminary hearing Immediately. Thevsheriff states that there is no question in his mind but that the Nevada officers have Turner under arrest. In the civil action between Mrs. Turner and the bank. Turner testified testi-fied that Mrs. Turner signed most of tho certificates upon which the payment pay-ment of her savings deposit was made and that she understood that the money mon-ey was being drawn. He confessed later, however, that he had made the statement to Mrs. Turner and others that she knew nothing of the affair and that he had forged her name. Mrs. Turner stated on the witness stand that all the receipts, except three, were forgeries. Expert witnesses, who testified in the case, were of tho opinion that the signatures were not forgeries and it was largely upon this evidence that Turner's wife failed to recover. , , , . Mrs. Turner was divorced from her husband shortly after his arrest and release for forgery, and she resumed her former name, Louise VanDyke Turner is known here as "Ten-Day Jack." and he has been in a number of shady transactions, particularly since the bank transaction. |