Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1912-11-21 | Page 3 | Decoy Letters Bring Woman into Toils

DECOY DEW lETTERS BRING WOMAN INTO TOIl TOILS Mrs Ella Martin Arrested in n Connection With National Purity Crusade r Through h the medium of decoy letters posted In Brigham City and pocatello Mrs Ella Martin lUn W. W Yo Third North t street landed In the toils of oC federal federa l authorities yesterday She was arrested arrested ar ar- rested Sy by lh the State tates marshal o oa ona on ona n a charge ehara of improper use of tho the nails malls Mr Ir Martin lartin arrest st Is the result o of f long Jong- Investigation In b by tho the Jl authorIties authorities au au- terminating In tho the submission n n of tho the case to tho the federal grand jury b by L Li A. A McGee Inspector and the returning or of an indictment t against her b by the jur jury Specifically she is charged with using the malls mails t to o carry on correspondence leading i to criminal surgical operations operation The max max- maximum sentence for tints this offense l Is five years in Jail or a fine of As there are arc four OUI counts In the Indictment Indict ment Mrs Martin j faces twenty years year s In the federal penitentiary Tho The arre arrest t is but one of ot ninny many throughout the countr country and is the re result result re- re sult suit of or a 11 concerted crusade Ib by the government gov Sov in to sc ent seventy two cities More Ioro than one hundred and seventy persons are Involved although It I Isaid Is s said that Mrs Martin Is the only person person person per per- son against whom a complaint has be been n Issued in this city The house at W W. Third North street was formerly the headquarters of Mrs Irs Lizzie Geisler Gelsler who came under undo the time ban of ot the state She Is not a at t that address now Inspector McGee has just returned l from Pueblo Colo where a similar In Investigation In- In investigation was concluded The deco decoy letters from Brigham ham and o contained requests for tor terns terms on a criminal crim crim- inal operation it is said and were re replied replied re- re plied piled to in kind by Mrs Martinho Martin who ho is alle alleged ed to have conducted negotiations negotiations lions ending In two or three criminal operations per we week le for some somo time She is now In the count county Jail being g unable to furnish the bail ball demanded