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Show WORTHLESS CHECKS ARE CASHED Detective Pender states that the i polico department is besieged with checks returned from the banks marked mark-ed "no funds" or "parties unknown' that, have beeu taken in by merchants mer-chants of the city In payment for goods. Mr. Pender says the business men expect the department to catch all these fellows who are working the check game, but that it Is a difficult matter to do so In almost every case. The man who turns the trick, lu tho first place, is a stranger In tho city, nnd. lu the second place, ho invariably invari-ably gets tho check cashed Saturday evening which gives film until .Monday .Mon-day morning, after the banks ooen, to make his getaway, The officers are working on a number num-ber of cases that have come to their attention since Monday, but the names of the parties Involved cannot be made known at this time. it is said that business men of the city cash hundreds of dollars worth of fraudulent checks every Saturday, most of the money never being re-covered. re-covered. i |