Arizona republican., 1913-12-02
PICTURES OF HERSELF

T have about furnished my house" said the eminent actress.
 How about picturea."
 T have enough of myself to riu the parlor and the reception hall ! sup pose I'll have to have some more taken for the other rooms"
 tions of the man together with all in formation as to his habits and the crime of which he i~ accused were sent over the country by wire. and thus lookouts established at every point where known, but some of his friends are of the opinion that he became pressed for money, and was living above his means. Some of his friends are also of the opinion that he cashed the checks on the government in the hope that they would have to be sent to Washington before the fraud was found out thus giving him plenty of time to get out of the way before War rants for his arrest were issued
 The manner of his abstracting the checks from ClntS office iS explained in the letter sent last evening by Nr Clint to the treasurer of the United States. This gives the serial numbers of the checks and restores general con fidence in any checks from the fiscal agent that arc good that are vet un- checked.
 William L. Gibbons, "BiU'' and "Gib" among the young fellows who work in the offices of the reclamation service. has been for over two years one of the best draughtsmen in the local office. a maker of maps. plats and working drawings. He is tall, thin, lankv ana of a humorous manner. something of comedian. "A hot sport" they all called him-perhaps little bit wild, too. He was of sandy complexion. and off and on sported a light sorreI mustache. clipped close. He wore this appendage when he was last seen about his duties, Saturday afternoon His eyes are light grey. A rather thin. mus cuIar face lends him funny look. and when he joshes-Which he does ire quently-he appears even more quiz zicaI Of countenancc.
 His reputation among his fellows was of the best. When asked about the af- fair last night orc McDermith, a su- perior in the office was amazed at the act of man he regarded as strictly all right. Having been out of the of flee most of yesterday, Mr McDermith
  for a moment imagined he would do such thing" he said.
 Miss McCoys Story.
 Miss Ethel Mccoy, stenographer at the National Bank of Arizona, was the first person in Phoenix to suspect that Gibbons financial operations were not on the square. In writing up the re- mittances-notes on checks for collec- tion outside Phoenix, she discovered a Gibbons check on which the signature of David k. Clint, the federal fiscal agent for the reclamation service here was not regular. MT. Clint writes what we call a small slant hand, very hard to initiate. The letters slope back" she said, the more I looked. the more strongly I became convinced the check was not good. | then went through my batch of checks and found four more with that peculiar signature They were all drawn in favor of Gib- bons, and all seemed bad. The sigma ture seemed to be written by the same person who had endorsed them.
 T Immediately called the attention of sylvan Gang the head teller to the checks, and he agreed they seemed ir- regular The five checks were cashed by the O'MaIley Lumber company for S120; the New York store, $135: Gold bergs, Ben Butler and the Sun Drug company, $G5.OO. When we called Mr. Clint and found that he hadn't drawn any checks of the particular amounts specified, he at once investigated and informed us that fifteen blanks had been torn out of the back of a recla- nation office checkbook''
 J. M Ormbsby of the Valley bank i'm vestigated the case for that institu- tion. Four checks came in through the Valley bank for the Commercial Hotel, $120; the Ford Hotel, $149; The Owl Drug Co., $120 The Bonton Grocery, $1OO.