Arizona republican., 1912-08-08

inside position instead of job walk ing on the wall
 Four of the checks passed We"2
 drawn on the Valley Bank and one on the National Bank of Arizona, the lat ter being for $16. This and three of a Chinese store on South Seventh aT- enue the total of the four checks being $366O Tine other check on the Valley called for $S.25 and was Cashed by branch ot the New York store. The check operations were conducted last Saturday and so far as can be ascer- tained Perrhan was not drunk, which is the mere mystifying for it is hard to cOncei"e of a sober man trying to work so open a game and probably he could not have gone so far with it eN- cept tat he dealt largely with Chl- naman Nho was not a good judge of English penmanship.
 The Chinese had four checks Io compare if he had had the intelligence to do so and had be done so he could have perceived at once that the pen manship of the signers of all of them was the same, that the names of the payees were in identical hantWriuing and that the endorsements were of the same ChirOgraphY, notwithstanding that different names were used Tn signing and in the blanks for payee There was no apparent attempt at inn itation of anybody's handwriting Perr- han evidently dashed them all off hur- riedIy. attaching any names to the, checks that came into his mind and using any name that suggested itself for the payee. Then he turned the check over and in the same nOncha ,- ant way repeated the name of the payee on the back and-the Chinese came across with the coin.
 One of the checks was made payable to a woman but there is no evidence that anybody ever had the check eN- cept Perrhan. A very peculiar capital letter that alone discloses the same ness of the penmanship. appears in one of the signatures, in the name or the payee and in the endorsement and there are other characteristics of the penmanship that are equally as plain. In the case of the check cashed hy the
 New Yorn store branch there was more excuse. There was no other check to
 compare with it and different names were useG. the payee's being on the back with Perrhan's own name beneath it
 Tuesday the $S.25 check arrived al the police station after it had been turned down by the bank, and was giv- en critical study Yesterday the Chi nese camr in with his four cheeks, in ! great excitement. He had found they were no good. He told the police that he did not know the name of the man i who got the money but that he knew 1 where he lived. Officer Duncan ac- ! companied him to d house on South l Third avenue and stood back from the l door concealed from view while the ] Chinamans knock brought Perrhan to i the front. The Chinaman asked him l for the money. He replied that thf i checks were all right but that was no' i satisfying when Perrhan modified his
 remarks by saving he would make th' | checks good just as soon as ne cam
 up town and for him not to worry
 At that juncture the officer steppe' out ard remarked that he eXpec, ,e( Perrhan would make the cnechs go'' one way or anoth5l but that until n' did so he would have to make the ja' his headquarters. A the station Chic Moore confronted Perrhan whose on'. | statement was that he wou!d make tn' }, checks good. He admitted on furthe | questioning that he had drawn tn checks marketed with the Chinamar
 then the officer showed him the othe check. The similarity was so plai1 that even Perrhan could no1 express } doubt of his own guilt in tfe trans ? action But he insisted that he Wante' l to get out of jail and seemed hurt a { the chiefs refusal to Iiberate him oi . his ofsei to make the checks good.