| Show I W C SUMNER IN TROUBLE He Is Arrested on the Charge of Embezzlement Em-bezzlement in Logan W C Sumner was yesterday placed under arrest by Deputy Sheriff Ballan tyne on a warrant issued by Justice Perrin charging Sumner with embez I zlement The complaint was sworn toby to-by Gottleib Berger of Logan who claimed he had been victimized to the amount of 200 by Sumner The case I brings up the back history qf the Pacific j Pa-cific Bond Investment company which achieved considerable notoriety I a few years ago by reason of grand jury investigations and newspaper reports I re-ports The officers of the concern were acquitted of charges brought against them but the company so far as Ogden Og-den is concerned seemed to die a natural nat-ural death The officers sought other fields of employment and only the sign on the doors and windows of a room on the fifth floor of the Utah Loan Trust building remained to remind i Ogden people that such a company ever I existed However if what Mr Berger avers is true the concern has been I doing business just the same through W C Sumner a selfconstituted acting I act-ing secretary Sumners version of the I auair is that he was working under a salary and took the money as such salary Sumner was taken before Justice I Perrin who fixedhis bond at 250 and set the case for Monday at 10 a m The bond was not furnished I The Pacific Bond Investment company com-pany has been rather unfortunate in Ogden Its officers were arrested on complaint of the postal authorities some year ago charging thcm with using the malls for unlawful purposes They were finally cleared but the business busi-ness did not pay and the secretary went to Oregon where it is supposed he sold out to a Colorado man It seems that a number of out of town I stockholders have been sending by mail more remittances which were appropriated appro-priated by Sumner who receipted for them as secretary or acting secretary Mr Gottlieb who swore to the complaint com-plaint has receipts of this kind amounting to about 80 One of his bonds amounting to 500 should have matured in January and his failure to I get it started the investigation I |
