Show J W EARDLEY RETURNS After a Years Wandering Over S the Country FALSE PRIDE LED H TO GO AWAY His Business Affairs Were in Such Shape That He Could Not Remain and Face Them When the Crash Came Is Adjusting All His Obligations Ob-ligations S J W Eardley has returned Herald readers are familiar with the sudden departure of Mr Eardley from Salt Lake a year ago and the sensational sensa-tional developments that followed His business affairs were in a chaotic state and he was owing large sums of money with practically no assets His appearance appear-ance on the streets yesterday was a great surprise as it was currently re I ra S v l J W EARDLETT EARDLE1 I ported he had gone to Honolulu and would never return One other rumor current at the time was that he left I in company with a woman and that the latter was in some way connected with his downfall Mr Eardley frankly acknowledges his business errors but emphatically denies that there was any woman connected with the matter in any way I was away behind said he to The Herald last night and finding myself I in a fix went away I was all due to false pride I did not feel that I I could face it but fully intended to right matetrs and have now adjusted I most of the claims against me and alI will be arranged in a few days No sir I was never in California i j as has been reported I have been i nearly everywhere else in the United I States and Canada but not there On the advice of my friends I concluded to come back and live all this down My word has been a good as my bond II in the past and I intend to win back my reputation I When these difficulties have all been adjusted I shall probably go into business busi-ness of some kind CC I |