Arizona republican., 1912-10-05
F|SkE'S CRIMES
 ONE TOO MANY
A Story of Forgery Into Which a Romantic Auto mobile Transaction and Hardships by the Way Are InterWOvpn

If Leo F. Fiske alias Owen T. Mar tin, alias George 4. Bates. alias o. A. Bates, alias c. C. Werner, alias w, O. Buon. alias A B. Curtis. had been content with one crime he would not now be in jail It was the second one that pointed him out to the sher- frs office which had been looking out for him on the request of the sheriffs office of san Jose, Cal, charging him with forgery A young man named Ed. Estabrook, who so far as is known had no part in the criminal activities of the man of many aliases, was also taken into custody and is being held for de- velopments
 Circulars containing a description of Fiske were received at the sheriff's office several days ago. It was not known that he was coming to Phoe- nix. The circulars were merely a part of a dragnet thrown out by the San Jose authorities.
 But yesterday morning a young man. G. c. Daniels. who had recently arrived in town called at the sheriffs office with a complaint that put the officers on the trail of Fiske.
 MT Daniels said that a few days ago he left Los Angeles with his wife in a small Buick car intending to come to Phoenix. On the way between Los Angeles and Yuma he fell in with Fiske and EstabrOOk The former told him his name was Curtis.
 They had a large, new machine. Fiske said that he was tired of au- tomobiling, especially of that par ticular machine He wanted to trade it to Daniels for his little Buick and before they reached Yuma the trade was arranged. As all of them were coming 10 Phoenix Daniels was to get $250 here and pay it to F'iske to boot.
 Before they got to Yuma both ma chimes went down and they had to send to Yuma for a car and a ma chnist It took some time to get the machines into shape and when it was finally done the party owed the owner of the Yuma garage $232
 The finances of the entire party were pretty well exhausted. They could not pay the bill so it was ar ranged that Fiske and Estabrook should come on to Phoenix in the small car while Daniels and his wife should remain with the big car up at Yuma until financial relief could be secured.
 At Dome. Fiske pawned the small car for $25 and gave a release of it. Later he went back to Yuma and sold the car to a man there for $50 and an order on the Dome citizen for a release He also gave a bill of sale for it. He signed one name to the bill of sale and he had signed an other name on the document he had given at Dome
 When this information reached Daniels he decided to come on to Phoenix and on his way he was caught by a telegram from Yuma giving the details of the latter tran saction with the multiplicity of Fiske's names Arriving here he learned yes terday that the big car had been secured by Fiske from W. l.. Little an automobile dealer of San Jose and had been paid for by a forged check for $14OO.
 Daniels by this time was thorough ly discouraged. He saw that he had been flimflammed out of his car. A little later he met Fiske and re preached him and urged him to tele- graph to Yuma strengthening out the matter of the names. Fiske said he would do it but he had forgotten what name he had given the man at Dome. He had so many aliases that he was unable to keep track of them.
 A little after that Fiske and Esta- brook were taken into custody. Estabrook without the knowledge of Fiske had admitted that they had come in an automobile from Los An