Arizona republican., 1903-08-08
MIGRATE AND FORGER
w, II. Carter Attaches E. W. Fishers
 Name to Checks.

A man by the name of w. M. Carter was locked up yesterday afternoon on a charge of forgery, which will not be difficult to prove. 1, will also be shown that Carter is the biggest fool forger that ever visited the town aid one of the most ungrateful of men. He came her four or five months ago broke. His family living in Los Angeles was slightly known to the wife of E. w. Fisher, the mining man. MT. Fisher took him in, fed him and finally pro- vided him with work in the unWater- ing of the Garcia mine. He also trust ed him with some money to pay debts incurred in the course of the work. He learned yesterday morning that the money had not been sent away by Carter. He had learned. too, that sev eral bills among the merchants of Phoenix whose payment he had guar anteed had not been paid. He had given Garter $50 couple of days be- | fore for his services as cook while the work at the Garcia mine was go- | ing on.
 He and Carter had started down | town and MT. Fisher remonstrated | with him upon his conduct. Carter | said he was sorry and he would fix matters up at once. He put his hand | in his pocket and simulated surprise. | He said he had left his money in an- other pair of trousers; he would go | back and get it and meet MT. Fisher | down town.
 When MT. Fisher arrived down town he learned that Carter was a bigger rascal ti.an he had suspected. The night before he had a check cashed at
 the Bank Exchange saloon. It was for | $10, bore for a signature the name of MT. Fisher and was payable to Car ter. The proprietors of the saloon | knew of the association of Carter with l Mr. Fisher and cashed the check with
 out hesitation.
 | When MT. Fisher learned of the for gery he urged the arrest of Carter and Il warrant was sworn out in Justice
 Burnett's court. MT. Fisher said there
 would be no trouble in finding him; he
 would be at his house, probably asleep ! Officer Doheney accompanied Mr. Fish
 ed to his home, but Carter was not
 asleep. He was not there, nor was MT
 Fishers favorite horse and saddle 1 There was also missing a bundle o
 merchandise which MT. Fisher had re- | gently bought.
 It was surmised that he might have
 gone to the Big Bug, for he had beer l talking about insuring the life of Mar
 shall Young. Carter, by the way, wher he was doing nothing else acted as
 agent for q life insurance company
 and he had told Mir Fisher that Int
 had a letter from MT. Young saying
 that he would take out S4, 900 insurance
 On the return of the officer to towr Ee reported the case to the sheriff: lxNf
 ble that Carter would be riding alons
 a telephone line, Deputy Sheriff Dun.
 can telephoned to Glendale and learned
 that q man of his description had jus
 passed through there. Sheriff Cook il
 the meantime had started in that di
 rection. Instructions were sent t, Glendale for a pursuit of Carter, and i was organized as soon as possible Be
 fore he reached Peoria, Carter saw hi
 pursuers and attempted to give then the slip by leaving the road. The.
 kept him in sight. though, and 500,
 overlook him. If he could have dom
 what he wanted to do he would prob
 ably have perished on the desert, fo
 he was headed fer a deadly part of tn
 country, particularly deadly at thi
 season of the year. He was brough back to Alhambra and turned over t. the sheriff, who brought him to town When he was put into jail he aske for only one thing-his prayer book. , Regarding the charge against him h ] would only say that he knew nothing about it. It was learned yesterday af l ternoon that he had cashed another O l the Fisher checks at the Boston story 2 The amount of that was $10.
 . Garter is said to be well connected i ~ Los Angeles. He has a brother i
 business there and a brother-in- la
 prominent in real estate circles