Williams news., 1908-12-05
CHARLES WILSON ACCUSED OF ISSUING FORGED
 CHECKS

tIOndl CdSD heSlsteI Cou P"'y o' Dayton, Ohio, struck Williams last week and immediately proceeded to get busy. His business, how ever, was not fixing cash registers, but getting money by the easier, but still, in the long run, more haz ardous method of issuing fictitious checks. His first attempt was at the saloon of Mora x Quijada, and he was successful in securing $35- $1O being paid down as the first installment on the purchase of register; the remaining $25 was handed Mir. Wilson after he had placed his name on slip of paper which he asserted would be imme- ] diately honored on presentation al the bank on which it was drawn Mora & Quijada are now satisfied that they are $35 to the bad. They still hold Wilson's personal receipt for $1O and his check for 1925, but those identifcations of value receiv- ed are buying nothing in Williams today.
 Elated with his success, Wilson
 proceeded to work few more, whom he considered easy, along the check
 route. At Sweetwood & Wake
 fields place of business he was DO
 litely but firmly refused, and when
 he attempted to exchange with
 Billy Satori, of the Pullman. paper
 bearing his name for good United
 States coin, Mir. Wilson was met with a decided may"
 At the Cabinet saloon Wilson
 was more successful, although his
 success there eventually resulted in
 his undoing Ed Hamilton, man. ag ger of the Ga binet, has had years
 of experience with those who tread
 the primrose paths, and who, when they are all in, will resort to any scheme, preferably issuing bogus checks, to raise the wind. But Hamilton, notwithstanding years of experience, when requested by Vii } son to accommodate him by cash
 ing a small check, gracefully com . piled This transaction occurred ! Saturday evening.
 : The check was for $1O and drawn
 on the First National Bank of Day f ton, Ohio. Becoming suspicious l MT. Hamilton began an investiga : ton and by reference to the Bank l. ers' Guide found that no such bank | existed. A warrant was then sworr e out for the alleged forger's arres
 and on "Wednesday he was appre a hended by Ranger Wood and incar h cerated in the city bastile. His ex s aminination has been set for mex e Tuesday. Owing to the condition - of the local lock up, it being utterly n unfit for human ha abitation Wilsor Q was given into the custody of Con
 stable McDougall and taken to tn
 county jail at Flagstaff, where h " will remain until the date of hi trial.
 :. Wilson is about 45 or proba bl = AS years of age, fully six feet i ' height, stoop shouldered, smoot
 shaven and weighs about 16
 pounds. He speaks with a sligh
 Swedish accent. He claims tha " his arrest was due to a mista ke an er that he will have no difficulty i m proving his innocence of an l" wrong doing when his examinatio al takes place. On the other har. ly there are parties here who assel ed that Wilson was a visitor in Will 'lt jams three years ago, representa-
 himself as agent for slot m'
 chine. and succeeded at that tin
 in collecting corsidera be none ,s as part payment on machines whic o he promised to deliver, but whic ,, have not yet materialized.
 HIS Postmaster Fred. w. Smith ar y wife returned from Phoenix la "' Sunday evening, where they ha I"' been since before the territori ed fair. Friends of the genial pos he m q g. tar wnra hani to feel Snm