, 1901-10-22
7 RAv|S
ARRESTED CHARGED WITH FORG.
ING NAME OF RANCH FIRM
AND SECURING MONEY.
Wrote Name Of Hebeler & McMurray
on Check for Fifty Dollars and Sc
cured That Sum from Business
Served Three Terms in Peniten-
tiary.

Tertiary, two in the penitentiary here
and one at Joliet, ILL.,, while this prison
was a government prison, and when
all the prisoners of the then territory
of Wyoming We're confined in the big
Illinois institution.
Notwithstanding the experience he
has had in hat direction, Travis lies
in the county Jail here with the shadow
of the state prison over him for a long
er term soon. He is charged with forg-
cry, and the proof seems so strong
against him that the officers consider
little short of a miracle will be neces-
sary to keep him out. He is under
charge for forging the firm name of
Hebeler & Murray to two checks for
$50 each, upon at least one of which
he has secured and spent the money.
Travis was arrested about 1920 last
night. or Front street, by Sheriff Cook,
who had been notified by telegram
from Rock River to be on the lookout
for the fellow, and had no difficulty in
identifying him, once he had his eyes
on him
Travis arrived from Rock River dur
ing the late afternoon and spent the
intervening time about town. having
succeeded in either spending or secret
ing all but about $1.35 of the $50 paid
him on the forged check. He pretend
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could give no account of his move
ments prior to his arrest.
The check upon which he secured
the money was very crudely drawn.
and Mr.. A.. J. p. Murray, a member
of the firm of Hebeler & Murray,
whose firm name was forged on the
firms signature. The check was num-
bered 239. and dated October 81, 1891.
The amount, fifty dollars" was writ
ten out, the word dollars being writ
ten before the printed word in the
blank. The amount in figures was
written $500, but the last CIPHER had
been erased and the cyphers for cents
had been written after the dollar mark
on the check. 1t was made payable to
George Travis, whose handwriting on
a piece of paper secured by County At
torney Downey from the prisoner this
morning corresponds in the minutest
detail to the name written on the
check.
The forged check was presented to
J. F. White at Rock River yesterday
and he gave Travis the money on it,
not knowing but hat it had been
drawn by the big ranchmen, Travis
having been in their employ as a COW
boy since the 9Th of July.
1t is said that another check for a
similar amount, and signed and en-
dorsed in the same way, was present
| ed to Sid Morris at Rockdale, but he
became suspicious and refused to cash
it.
When Travis secured the money
from Mr.. White he bought a roundtrip
ticket from Rock River to this city,
even paying for the board of his horse
at Rock River until he could return
after his spree in Laramie INT claim
it. Why he expected to return is be-
You'd the ken of the officers, as it is
said the signatures on the forged
checks are nothing like the one made
by either member of the firm. They
were drawn on the First National
ent color than those used by the ranch
men, whose checks are on blue paper
and bound in book form. The check
was on white paper, the ordinary coun-
ter form used by the bank, and unlike
those given to the country customers
of the institution.
Travis was arraigned before Justice
Of the Peace ]. H. Hayford in this city
this morning, charged with forgery,
and refused to plead, waving examin-
alton. Bond was fixed at $1,000 and the
case set for a hearing on the I'd day of
December, upon which date the jury of
the district court has been cited to
appear. Travis did o make a state
ment, saying he would decline to plead,
and would waive the examination. Mr..
Murray, the prosecuting witness, en-
tered into recognizance to appear at
the December term.
Travis, as was said earlier in this
article, has already served three terms.
a total Of twelve years. He was sem
from this county to the Joliet peniten-
tiary for eight years for forgery. Not
long after getting out of that he was
convicted for stealing live stock in this
county and sent to the prison here for
three years. This he served and was
released. Later he was again in the
tolls, coming from Carbon county for
one year for forgery, and was releas-
ed this last summer.
Travis served in the ~penitentiary as
Wells. He is a good cook, and during