The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-10-24
FORGER LANDS
IN CITY JAIL

Through the prompt action OF Mrs.
John Greiner. Saturday night. Sam
Brown. a suspected rorger was ar
rested and landed In the city bastile
for safe keeping.
Check on Read Bros.
The forged check was made out
on ]. B. Read Bros. Company, the
harnessmakers. and was for the
amount OF $2l.S5. After deductine Sc
for two weeks room rent In advance
Mrs GrenIer paid Smith the balance
of S15.S5 In cash. The mans arrest
took place and the entire amount OF
cash paid over by the woman was re-
covered by the police.
When searched at the police head.
quarters two other checks were iound
in the mans pockets. Both of these
are believed to be forgeries. One
was made ont on First National Bank
paper to Sam Komenich for the sum
OF $685. 1t was purported to have
been signed by p. II Steffenson. This
check had not vet been indorSed
other Checks Found.
The other check on Pingree Bank
paper was made payable to the same
Sam Komenioh in the sum of 81 SO
and the name OF P ] Moran. the
wcll-known contractor appeared AT
the bottom This Is also believed 10
be a forgery although the police nave
not yet ascertained the facts from
Mr.. Moran. There were also found
I'm smiths pockets two books OF blank
enecks. one on the First National
Bank and the other on the Plngree
National Bank
Smith Grst appeared at the BIS
mark rooming house Friday evening
| and paid the proprietor fifty cents Tor
a room for the night YESTERDAY al
ternoon he returned and told Mrs.
| Greincr that he would take the room
| for two weeks and in paving the rent
al in advance submitted ;he check for
! $2lS5 on the Read company.
Woman Became Suspicious.
The stranger had not Yet endorsed
the check and the presence of Mrs
Greiner and her two children ne
wrote the name Sam Smith across the
back OF the bogus paper. The woman
then paid Smith the $l5.S5 in cash.
but decided TO take no chances and
sent her son downstairs 10 make In
ouirics regarding the check
He was advised to keep the StranG
er in sight and take the check to
the Read company at once, Ihis the
boy did and was informed that tho
check was a forgery, He then follow
ed Smith mp the street Tor three
blocks and meeting Detective Ward
low. acquainted the officer with the
circumstances Smith was placed
under arrest at once and locked III
in the city jail.
Smith Identified.
Dnrinc the evening Mrs GreineI
called at the station and identlhe'
Smith as the man who had given heI
the check She also identified the
$40 bill which she had given th'
stranger as part payment OF the casn
alleged to be due him. When faclni
this almost unmIStakable evidence o
his guilt Smith told several dineren'
stories. stating at one time that an
other man had 2ivcn him the cneci
with promise of a dollar II he woulo
cash ii. He could not give the po
lice a description OF this alleged sec
ond party.
Smith was asked TO sign releas
for the SIS 50 in order that the po.lc
o could turn the money over TO MIS-
Greiner. but he refused to do SO
knowing that his signature Woulu u
used as evidence against him II
/, maintained that the forged check na'
been endorsed by the mysterious sec
ond party
e Foreer Stranger to Police,
The man under arrest Is pei'eNe
TO be an Assyrian and Is strange
;, in the city After n complete lnves
d tIgation OF the case by the police th'
= matter will be turned over TO the dis
" | tTirt attorney