Show BROUGHT FROM KANSAS hyde Alleged Loan SwindlerS Swindler-S Now in the County Jail HE EXPLAINS HIS ALIASES I SAYS HIS HEALNAME IS W S HICKS < And That Hyde is Another Man the Principal in the Scheme and theRe the-Re Culprit The Prisoner Says i He Was Duped Himself by the Bad STan Hyde Claims His Intentions tentions Were of the BestS Best-S W Hyde alias a large assortment of cognomens the alleged bamboozler who duped a number of confiding citizens citi-zens by means of the fake Western Loan agency reppses in a cell at the county jail He was taken there today I to-day by Deputy United States Marshal j Thomson who brought the moneylender I j money-lender fresh from Wichita Kansas whither he fled after his desertion of I his clientele at Ogden I I the story told in his cell last I night be true the real name of the I prisoner is W S Hicks and the real I culprit is S W Hyde the man whose I name he used in the Ogden transactions I transac-tions and Hicks himself is the innocent inno-cent victim of the wiles of his chief The history of the Ogden deals was told at the time Hicks flight from the junction city was discovered His practice was to send out letters in which loans were proffered and solicitation solici-tation made for a preliminary fee of 510 which it was alleged would be used to defray the expense of recording and examining trust deeds This advance ad-vance amount was sent In by numerous people and a considerable sum had been accumulated by Hyde or Hicks at the time of his unexpected and unheralded un-heralded departure from Ogden POSTOFFICE INSPECTOR ON HIS I TRAIL Assistant Postoffice Inspector Fitzgerald i Fitz-gerald learned of the illegal use of the I j S I 34F 7 I r S S S I l 5 S i Ti tVS I t J S WEYDE A MAN WITH MANY ALIASES v I S mails on May 3 several days after the departure of HickHfrom Ogden who started for the cajjUon April 26 The inspector immediately began tracing the fugitive and his > recent arrest at Vichita was the result Mr Fitzgerald 1 Fitz-gerald traced the fugitive from Ogden gerld w Cheyenne thence to Denver and thence to Wichita Hicks when visited in his cell last night was sleeping serenely He was not at first disposed to speak of his troubles but after a few moments of dazed and sleepy consideration said he was not guilty and was willing to tel the whole story THE REAL CULPRIT I I got mixed up in this matter through S W Hyde whom I met in a I hotel corridor in Cheyenne He told i me he needed a man to represent the Vestern Loan agency of which he claimed Lan manager at Ogden and urged me to accept the place He told I I me to solicit for the agency and said when the loans were made he would send on the money As to the aliases and the Hyde told me to use his name reason I did not give my real name at Wichita reson was to shield my mother from the news that I was in trouble The reason I left Ogden when I did was that I was getting suspicious that everything was not right with Hyde send some furni He promised to me I ture by April 15 and when it dil not come and I received no word regarding I i I began to think I had been duped I by the outfit I have been In tne lain I la-in business for about six years in a legitimate way and I went east in order to obtain money to supply the people who had asked for money I I also wanted to get money to pay back the 10 payments which had been made I for the trust deeds Some of these amounts I had sent to Hyde at Helena and the loan agency which has headquarters head-quarters in New York and the rest I hadnt turned over to anyone You see I had only been connected with It since April when I went to Ogden and if they had left me alone I would have got the necessary money and I paid everyone back I had already written some parties for money when I they came and got me at Wichita CLAIMS GOOD INTENTIONS Hicks claimed that he had intended from the first to return to Ogden He had written Taylor the man he was accused of swindling not to send in I any more business until everything was settled He had also told him he I claimed that if the loan was not made by the agency he would return the money which had been advanced to I him You see said Hicks plaintively I didnt know anything about the agency and I was as likely to be deceived de-ceived by Hyde as Taylor was to be I deceived by me I I dont want to lie about it said I Hicks Im going to tell a straight story I I have done any injury I am willing to stand the consequences Anyhow I was deceived by the I I Helena man and thats the whole story S I I HAS EXPERIENCE I I Hicks claims to be far removed from being a npvlce at the loan business I I He said he had been engaged in lending lend-ing other peoples money since 1891 j I i mostly at Kirkville Mo and Bove I Texas H came west according to his story in order to locate and start upI up-I in business At the time he reached Helena his funds were almost exhausted ex-hausted and when he fell in with Hyde he got the impression that he had struck the giltedges of a bonanza Hicks has not the swagger nor the resonant and tuneful clothes nor the oily tongue of the conventional grafter He professes his honesty in a simple and mild way I never have defrauded a man he said Mir idea was to pay back every cent if I had to do it out of my own pocket I After I began to mistrust Hyde I didnt send him or the loan agency at New York a single cent I Hicks will be arraigned before Judge John A Marshall in the United States I district court to plead to the indictment indict-ment charging him with the fradulent I use of the mails |