Show ALLEGED FORG FORGER TRIES THIES TO E ESCAPE IS ARRESTED BY SHERIFF NEAR COVE FORT FORGED CHECK FOR SMALL SUM Is said to haie ha e played fast and awse loo with drafts around town ton to n of monroe sheriff law lav son r on had bad a wild chase after in an alleged forger on tuesday he found hib bib man on three creek making his hib wa wan into millard county as fast as po possible gible when the sheriff nabbed him the man is william J wallace who lids has teen ceen in the county several months as a suppo supposed qed agent for an eastern ca tern soap manufacturer he hung around richfield Kich field for some come time and then went to monroe he succeeded in getting monroe people to endor endore e drafts on oil his alleged firm and these amounted to ur or shuo returns on these showed that the drafts were forgeries and monroe signers found them eles seles up against it but the act of getting this thib money in this wai apparently is not Lri criminal minal merely a matter of L of the endorser of the draft wallace gre gren to be quite at home it at monroe lie he managed to get L T clawson to sign a draft by abow ing him a letter alleged to hae bac been written by his big father in which the latter authorized wallace to draw on him for any reasonable amount of money clawson thought this appeared all right and he endorsed endor ged a draft for money which wallace secured cur clawson took wallace to his home in order to have him at hand when returns from the draft were rece ved in the meantime wallace gave clawson this alleged letter from his father but the letter disappeared appeared diR from Claw sons pocket while staging at claw sons ons wallace secured a blank cheek check from the formers check book and here is where he played in bad luck lie he made the cheek check for 23 10 40 and forged Claw sons name this was cashed at hoops and nielsene Niel sens saloon quick returns were received rece vied on this paper the check waa vas passed last monday monda on tuesday marshal ranson was notified of the forgery and a complaint was sworn to before the justice of the peace and a warrant was wallace wis still in town and on tuesday da morning the earshil called up the cheriff and a asked aked ked for instructions instruction these wore wo re eiven and when the marshal went to get his hia man he was gone gon and a searah h all over town failed t to locate him sheriff lawson lawon law on was then notified anil and advised that the man had been icon hiking towards josehp on foot with this as a clue the sheriff picked up his trail at jo joseph joeph eph where he secured an outfit by offering sau to be taken to cove cone port fort the sheriff trailed ins his min man as fir as three creek where lie he overtook him wallace made no attempt to escape then ile he submitted to arrest and was brought to ld about midnight night ile he atken to monroe on n wed nedy b ba sheriff lawson and county attorney haes where he was wag arraigned before the justice he waived hearing ind was placed under OC bonds to appear before the district court the c cise ise is su suh such h 1 I fl ignant flig rant one that in ill probability the min will plead guilty ile he deserves all that the law can live give him fur his bald thront i era er in trying to get the hard earned mone gonei of if donst men heating will bt bi in to tight the frost and the returns from uch euch an orchard will A ill he be a mighty financial aglet the kompany om pany has closed i contract with a lell aall driving company for ad difior tl il walli and them the expect to de caoli enough water to irrigate the entire tract of over eros acres at the mouth of the cannon manager bastian ins his accomplished andrs on drs in the le velling of this piece of land and in the bringing of it to an excellent cc clent state it is a I 1 work ork thit an man ma well flea proud of and he apis it in the face of great difficulties here is the beginning of 0 the corn mercial orchard for sevier counts counte and other owners of available tracts of land should 0 take heart and pet get into the orchard busina a |