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Show WALTER BRAMWELL TELLS HIS SIDE OF STORY j In a letter to the Salt Lake Telegram Tele-gram Walter Bramwell says; My name having hern assoelaied with two forgery charges, I think a word of explanation tlroelv. One year ago O. A. M. Olsen, then of Salt Lake City, purchased an Interest Inter-est in the Bramwell grocery busings In OKden. of which I owned control, for which he gave in payment two notes, with the understanding tlm .500 was to he paid in ten days and the balance of the purchase price hi monthly installments of $100 each Oleen moved his family to Ogden and assumed the management of the ' business, and for three ir.onths was well satisfied with conditions. The following two months he decided to quit, as the business did not net the amount he expected, which was a result re-sult of his drunkenness, neglect and mismanageinent. j Olscn, lopcthcr with George Hal-I Hal-I vcrson and John PlnRree of Ogden. resorted to 11 manner of trickery and ' df-relt to pet possession of the papers. They failed. The fomery charpo la another shady ai tempt to Injury. The note plvcn the Utah National bank of this city as security was regular and not a forgery. Relative to the former charKe made by W. H. Shearman of this city, that Is also groundless. During nty ten years' association with the banks of Ocden, Morgan and Salt Iake City, I have never to my knowledge cashed a single check bearing bear-ing the signature of "A. G. Brim " The check In question passed I through the office of the Interna-j Interna-j tlonal Adjusting companv, a corporation corpora-tion of which I am superintendent, in payment of an account, and was deposited de-posited with the Merchants' bunk, with other checks, for credit, no ca9h I being received. The bank held the check for more , than three weeks, after which Detoc- the Burbidge trailed me around Salt I Lake City as agent for Shearman and made three calls at the ofilce. I On the date of his first call he asked questions relative to the check and stited that they would give me some "unpleasant notoriety" if I did not come through with an amount of money. This proposition was made on three occasions, all of which I declined de-clined He also stated that he did not know who made the check, and did not care, but asked that I come through with the money that he might get his "commission." The whole affair Is one of graft and blackmail, pure and simple. WALTER BRAMWELL. |