The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-07-16
|FORGER POTTER
BEHIND THE BARS
Captured by Chief Detective
Raleigh at Salt Lake
Postoffice.
fWANTED IN MICHIGAN
FOR IMPORTANT CRIME
iWiII Leave for Detroit Today, Ac-
companied by Pinkerton
Detective.

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a. NJ. Potter. forger and all-round
crook. arose from his bed at the OF
pheuni annex, in the rear OF the Or>
pheum theater, Sunday forenoon
glanced at the rnirrored reflection ol
s,is sprouting whiskers and painted
hair. congratulated himself on the
.cleverress OF his disguise. and, having
donned his clothes, strobe forth into
Commercial avenue, and thence on
down town, as free from thought oil
personal danger as the sparrow that
twittered in the gutter at his feet
Mr.. Potter knew In his heart mat
he was no ordinary criminal. He knew
that his handsome. clear-cut 'phiz
adorned the pages OF every rogue s
gallery on the continent; that, from
ocean 10 ocean. from the lakes to the
gulf, they were after him.
No Thought of Danger.
These reflections had a tendency to
fill the fugitive forger with pride, and,
recalling the hirsute disguise before
mentioned. he turned into CONNER
cial then into Second South and then
into Main street with a springy step,
a jaunty air and a chuclsle which told
plainly OF the sense of sweet security
81 which ne moved.
Along down about midway between
Second and Third South something fell
on Mr.. Potter 1t was an eye. Not
the ordinary eye of the casual observer
but one OF those searching, penetrating
eyes that glue themselves TO their OBJ
5ect and Will not be shaken Off, 1t
was the eye of Detective George
Raleigh, man-hunter and solver OF
criminal riddles. 1t projected its gaze
through the carefully. prepared dis
gu!se of dyed hair and scrasgly beard
and was satisfied,
Caught at Postoffice.
Three minutes later the self-satisfed
and unsuspecting forger stood at the
postoftice delivery window and the
proprietor of that eye stood within
TWO feet of him, apparently making
careful study of the fresco on the CELL
ing.
Richard j.. Adams" announced Mr..
Potter, answering the inquiring look
of the window clerk Then something
else fell on him. 1t waa the bear-like
paw OF Raleigh, and Mr.. Potter Will
be a guest Of the city until some time
today, when he VIII leave for Detroit.
Mich, In company with II. j. Lamb,
a Pinkerton detective. TO whose care
and keeping he has been turned over.
Has Been Industrious.
Arthur NJ. Potter, alias Pug Potter,
though only y years old, has been so
industrious q criminal that he has
record OF which an older operator might
be proud. His work has been confined
for the most part, to the Eastern and
Middle States, though he has not en-
tireB overlooked the opportunities held
out TO energetic young gentlemen OF
his class by the Pacific coast and far
Western States and Territories.
His latest important trick was turned
at Detroit. Mich, early in May last
when he forged a check on the Dime
Savings bank of that city for $4,000. 1t
IS for this particular crime that he is
now In durance.
Hand of the Pinkertons.
Detective Lamb arrived from the
East, Saturday at midnight, with a de-
scription of Potter His arrest within
twelve hours of the time this descrip-
ton was placed IN the hands OF the
local police Is considered going some"
The prisoner IS the scion OF a family
OF much prominence in Denver, Colo.
His father Is well known in financial
circles throughout the country, is
longs TO the directorate of many big
financial institutions. The prisoner Is
his only son
Has Numerous Aliases.
Potter has other aliases besides Pug
Potter, which was more of college
nickname which his fellow-students
fastened upon him than a criminal
coenomen. Here in Salt Lake and up
and down the Pacific coast he went
under the names OF Richard L. Adams
and A. 3. Baker.
The arrest OF this man is considered a
criminal catch Of no small Importance.
as he is everywhere known to be one
Of the cleycrest bank check manipula-
tors in the country, and also to be high
ly resourceful IN avoiding arrest When
confronted with the evidence In the
hands Of the Pinkerton man he made
no attempt to deny his guilt, his prin-
cipal desire being to have the news
Of his capture kept from his father
enc mother at Denver.
Detective Lamb received a telegram
from the Denver branch Of the Pink
ertons advising him to give the story
OF the capture OF Potter to the news
rapers ard to see that due credit be
given to the Pinkertons. the American
Bankers association and the Salt Lake
police department.