Arizona republican., 1911-03-04
MUCH-WANTED FORGER
 IS IN THE TOLLS
WANTED IN WlNkELMAN AND LOS ANGELES AND BY
 BANKERS GENERALLY.
Detective Shelton of Burns Agency Aided by Local Officers, Arrested
 Him Here Early This Morning.

Wanted for forgery in Winkelman. possibly in Tempe or Phoenix also. | and certainly so in Los Angeles Fred B. Hatfield alias William F. Lawton. was arrested this morning shortly be- | fore 1 o'clock in the lobby of the Ford hotel of which he was a guest, just as he was about to retire His Identification and presence as a guest of the hotel was made early in the evening by Sheriff Hayden and the arrest for the Winkelman crime was made by Deputy Sheriff Olea. at whose elbow stood J. H Shelton of the w. J. Burns National Detective Agency which represents the Amer ican Bankers association. and who had trailed Hatfield from California and fully identified him by a clever re mark at the moment the arrest was made.
 Hatfield is only 21 or 22 years old and for a young man has been mak- ing a pretty swift record since he went into the forgery business last June. but while he was going some he could not travel fast enough to keep ahead of the Burns Detective
 
 the high speed gear all the time.
 The story follows in order Of se- quence. at least all of it that is nec- essaTy to lead up to his present ar rest Last June Hatfield forged the name of Albert $. Hoyt. Pasadena millionaire to q S45O check He was captured, convicted, and eventually the matter was fixed up in a way that permitted him to be released on probation. Then he proceeded to forge another check in Los Angeles. this time for S10O, and take to the brush The particulars of that transaction Mir Shelton says he does not care to disclose just now. but that is the act that sent him to Arizona to locate Hatfield
 shelton was in Prescott when he received word that Hatfield was in Tucson and started for that city but arriving in Phoenix was informed by Sheriff Hayden that d man answering his description was wanted for a check forgery in WinkeIman. Then Shelton got wire informing him that Hatfield was in Tempe on the 2Sth. and it was also learned here that he had cashed a check in Phoe- nix that was probably written in Tempe, which may or may not prove to be a forgery.
 Yesterday afternoon Shelton and Deputy Sheriff Billy Woolf went to Tempe for look around and while they were gone Sheriff Hayden held down the lid in Phoenix About o'clock last evening Hatfield drifted into the Ford hotel and registered as Wm. F. Lawton and he writes it just as easily as if it had always been his name. In fact it is about the most graceful piece of penmanship on the page. though not of a flourishing na- ture
 Soon after he had registered Sheriff Hayden scanned the page and found the name which looked good to him But he could not get his eye on the man so he just stuck around until Shelton and Woolf came back from Tempe when a council of war was held. Mir. Havden went home while Shelton and Olea took up their vigil who had probably been seeing Phoe- nix by electric light. entered the lobby and sat down to write a letter. The officers casually studied his move nents and when he had finished he started toward the stairway when they approached him.
 Come here Lawton. I want to see