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Show REAL ESTATE iED Ross C Devyis Arrested on Larceny Complaint Ross C. Davis, 41 years of age. real estate operator, was arrested taaf'Tifght by sheriffs officers .on a charge of grand larceny and em besxlement. He was released on bond! The complaining wttftess. Mary 1. Butterfleld. allegea that Davis, by -trick and artifice," defrauded de-frauded hei' out of farm property valued at 94000 when he failed to deliver a lease on the Angelus apartments, t0 West Broadway. A complaint charging J. T. Cos-sett Cos-sett with obtaining money by false pretenses also was Issued by the county attorney. In connection with the same transaction. Mrs. Butterfleld allerca that she was to become the owner of a lease on the Angelus apartments, supposedly sup-posedly held by Gossett, In exchange ex-change for her farm property, located lo-cated at Taylorsville, and containing contain-ing fifteen- acres. The conditions of the exchange allowed Mrs. Butterfleld. But-terfleld. she says, opportunity to Inspect the lease and take over tha hotel on trial, the deed to ber property prop-erty to be held by Davis until she waa satisfied that the apartment and the leaae were all that he (Davis) (Da-vis) as agent and Gossett had rep resented. Gossett, who waa renting the apartment house, was given the deed to Mrs. Butterfleld s property, and he. In turn, sold It to a third party, who figures in the transaction transac-tion a the "Innocent purchaser. When "he found thst the hotel did not pay the returns as represented, repre-sented, and that Onssett did not own tha lease, shs demanded cancellation can-cellation of the deed to her prop- ; erty, which she learned had been , I transferred to Oossett. In violation , of her contract and without her per- j : mission. i This constituted trick and artifice.- she alleges, and the county attorney issued a complaint against Davis charging larceny and em beagle bea-gle men t. |