Show Identified wm- wm 1 r k f I Z 14 4 4 k j Thurman Steele MYSTERY MAN MANIS MANIs IS EX-CONVICT EX Supposed Injured Doctor Now NoY Said to Be Parole Violator Special to The MALAD CITY Idaho N Nov v. v 21 21 I The identity of Malad City's mystery man was established here today when Sheriff Al Josephson identified him from Salt Lake Lak police de department department depart depart- ment pictures and descriptions as Thurman Steele Utah ex convict ant anc anta anca and anda a New Mexico parole violator Sheriff Sheri Josephson said he would immedIately contact New Mexico prison officials at Santa Fe Fc to learn if f they will come to Malad City ant and return Steele Still semiconscious in the Naiad Malac community hospital after being found unconscious on the highway near acer here Saturday night Steele has t been unable unable un able to identify himself Authorities first beli believed ved him to be a doctor because because be be- cause caus of finding a doctors doctor's case containing con con- taming two thermometers on his person Empty Empt Wallet Found Si from a fra fractured tui SK skull St Steele vas vas' vas vas' was tho thought to h have ve veI been seen slugged and robbed on the high- high way vay His wallet emptied and with identification removed remo w was s found near him Although his identity IS' IS Is Is' known now how Steele came cameto to belying uh- uh conscious on the highway still re remains remains re re- re mains a mystery A picture of Steele lying lyIng- on his hospital hos hos- pital bed p published bUshed in The Salt Lake Telegram Monday led to identifies identifies- ion tion Salt Lake police noted a Q resemblance blance lance to pictures pictures' of Steele taken when he was arrested In the Utah city a month ago ogo as a suspected confidence man The police pictures were forwarded here together with descriptions and Sheriff Josephson immediately iden Idea Steele Steele alias s T. T A. A Marque was arrested arrested ar ar- rested ested in Salt Lake when police learned earned he had been posing as a field representative of an eastern tern wholesale wholesale whole whole- sale sole drug company He allegedly hired 35 salesmen and extracted 10 bond from each Given Floater After being held for investigation he ic was charged with vagrancy and given iven a floater out of the city Information of ot the Salt Lake police department is that Steele is wanted in n New v Mexico for violating a parole granted ranted him after he served a year yearn on n a forgery term of three to five years ears In 1914 he was a 8 patient of the ic Utah state mental hospital and in in 1918 1018 he served a term in the Utah state ate prison for forgery according to the ic record He also has served a term In n the Ohio state prison for forgery and nd once was a patient at the Vir Vir- state mental hospital the record rec rec- ord rd shows The theory he had been beaten by bandits was discredited here last night ight when two Pocatello physicians examined Steele and said the Injury to o his head was not a fresh one They expressed an in opinion it w was s an old one ne that tha caused d recurrent Lion on |