The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-02-04
STOLEN BANK CHECKS
FOUND CACHED IN A VACANT
HOUSE NEAR SANDY.
Were Stolen From a Saloon In Frisco
In November, 1696-Aggregatol
S455. so, But Payment Had Been
Stopped-Minor Police Matters.

/ Yesterday man who gave the name of
Levi Hardcastle appeared at the police
station and reported that near his home,
half mile west of Sandy, in a house be-
longing to his brother. but not occupied
at present, he had found number of
bank checks. Mr. Hardcastle said that
he had gone over the building, which is
an old frame structure, and entered to
see what condition il was in. AS he was
looking around, he saw piece OF fuse
hanging from the roof. Fearing that
some one intended TO blow the building
up he made an investigation, and at first
saw nothing there but the short piece of
fuse Upon looking further, however, he
discovered an envelope containing num-
Der of checks. most of which were on
/ Wells, Fargo * Co : bank. These checks
were all turned over to the police and,
upon investigation. il was found that pay
ment had been ordered stopped upon all
In November, 1896. a saloon in Frisco
Utah. was held uD and the till robbed
The saloon was owned by Mcleod & Nc
Auley and upon the night in question a
masked man entered and. pointing a re-
volver at the bartender made him throw
I'D his hands, while he went through the
still The rObber got away with all of the
money in the till anC large sum in
checks. No clue has been found to the
perpetrator Of the robbery, and it was not
until yesterday that the checks We're
heard of. The checks which Mr. Hard
castle gave TO the police are the ones
which were taken from the saloon in
Frisco.
All Of the checks on the Wells Fargo
bank were from the Cactus Mining Co.
and were signed by Joseph Luce. man
ager. They amounte dto S253- 49, There was
one of them missing There were two
more checks on the Deseret National bank
amounting to S202.50 There were on the
latter Institution three stolen. but one of
them for 1921 is still missing. None of
no 4 r.
dered stopped as soon as il was discovered
they had been stolen. 1t is supposed that
the thief hid the checks in the house after
the hOld-up. The building is frequently
used by tramps for a shelter.
George Douglas. who was arrested on
Wednesday LOT stealing sack OF hour,
was arraigned in police court yesterday on
a charge of petit larceny. He pleaded
guilty. but stated that he was drunk when
ne took the flour from the Star grocery,
otherwise he would not have committed
the theft In view of the fact that this
was his first offense in that direction. he
was dismissed. But his freedom was short
lived. He had scarcely left the court room
-hen 1t was discovered he had stolen a
pair of blankets from the Salvation Ar
my. He was again brought into court on
lhat charge and pleaded guilty. For this
last act he was fined $50.
Andrew S. Anderson was arrested last
night by officer Hemple and rocked up on
q charge OF drunkenness Anderson was
found by the officer going about the street
with his wife's cloak. which he was try
inc TO sell.
William Heene and Edward Mace We're
each fined $50 for petit larceny. They
were found guilty of having stolen pair
Of pants.
c. w Lawrence was sentenced to 30
days for begging.
. % g
Police Court Clerk Shoup yesterday paid
over to City Treasurer Morris the sum of
81 100. which represents the total fines and
forfeifureS for the month of Jan1arv