VICTIM OF A CHECK FORGERY.
Much Bogus Paper Afloat Bearing
Avery Company's Name.
The Avery Manufacturing Company, Tenth and Santa Fe streets, has been annoyed for a week or more by a man who has been going about the city forging small checks on the firm. Between fifteen and twenty checks, ranging from $1.50 to $3, have been passed on to dry goods stores, saloons, and furnishing goods stores.
The checks are all made payable to a man named Joseph Barker, signed "Avery Manufacturing Company, J. Anderson, manager." They have been drawn on the First National Bank. The company has a stamp which it uses when signing its checks, but this forger does the work all by hand, so the firm reported to the police. An effort is being made to locate Barker, or the man who has been going under that name.
