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Show DOES FAVOR FOR ?AL'; JAILED ON FORGERY CHARGE An Innocent lctlm through an offort to nccommodnte a friend. A K McDonald, a switchman employed em-ployed by the Ogden I'nlon . Railway Rail-way A- Depot compnn. Is nw in the county jail charged with forging forg-ing a pay check A telegraphic dispatch from California this morning from thf owner of the forged pay check showed that McDonald Mc-Donald was given authority by him to get his money and snd It to him. McDonald hus a letter from a former employe of the depot compare, com-pare, who is now in California, asking him to got his check ami send him the money. McDonald claims he got the check and on-dorsed on-dorsed his friend's name on It and cashed It. Ho then bought a bank draft here and had the money forwarded to his friend in ('allfornla He exhibited thf receipt re-ceipt In the meantime, however, his friend had written to the auditor of the company hero and inquired about his check The record showed that McDonald had received re-ceived It and later tracing showed that he had signed and cashed It. Believing that McDonald had pocketed the money a warrant was Issued for his arrest. Ho was placed In custody yesterday. Although McDonald Is still In jail. It s likely thut the case will be completely cloored up and the charge of forgery dropped. Technically, Tech-nically, the ofilce-rs t-ny, McEonald did lorge the h-ck but he did It upon written authority of his i friend to got his money. The money was sent to Collfornla through a local bank before the (Tarrant wus issued and McDonald : has hie friend's letter giving him authority to pet the cheek and a bank receipt showing that the money was promptly sent to his friend in California, the officers say McDonald appeared before City Judge D. R. Robot ts this morning morn-ing and entered a plea of not gullt to b ch-irco of forg'-rv. The case was set for Sept. 29. Ball origlnallv net at $1000 was reduced re-duced to $o00 |