Show J I M GOLDSTONE COLDSTONE GRAFTER TAPS SEVERAL SOFT ONES ON WAY EAST J M Jot Goldstone ne who masqueraded in Salt Lake for several weeks this spring as the correspondent of or an eastern jour journal journal journal nal and who finally was sent to Oma Omaha Omaha Omaha ha on a paupers ticket by the poor de do department department fleeced Omaha citizens on varl vari various ous pretenses during his brief stay In that city eft eftA A letter to Rabbi Freund yesterday from froman Tin an Omaha friend tells of G methods in that city He approached this gentleman and after atter telling him a highly imaginative story about his be being beIng being ing a Salt Lake newspaper man engaged to a wealthy Salt Lake girl that he had hada a draft he could not cash because he was not identified and that he lie was tempo of money finally secured the loan Joan of K 5 from him Later it developed that he was an Im Imposter poster He was unable to pay pa his ho hotel hotel hotel tel bill and his baggage was held the police giving him permission to go to Des Moines Ia In where he claimed to have relatives S to secure the money mone to pay his board Prior to the discovery of his identity Iden h represented himself as an agent for a theatrical theat troupe and I signed contracts with several actors to appear in his company co panY and incidentally secured the loan of a considerable amount of money and ran up lar large larg fe bills I career in Salt Lake was a checkered one and although his grafting I did not pay him well wen here several per persons perSons I i sons last leat varying amounts by reason of 1 his ls borrowing proclivity proc When he first came caIne here he said that be he represented nt ed an eastern Stern stem magazine and was a astory astory astory story on Mormons He loafed loaf d about po police police lice court arid and made the acquaintance of ot several attorneys and policemen from whom he h borrowed money His next occupation was that of aud in the Chicago Art store ope operated operated operated rated by Abraham Wallace allace early this year Jear About the middle of January this store burned and much of the contents was destroyed Some weeks later a box boxcar boxI I car containing the remainder of the stock I I burned on a sidetrack here Abraham re and his wife were arrested for setting the th car on fire and Goldstone joined with the police in art an au attempt to get evidence against the Wallaces Wall aces They were both acquitted however Goldstone then assumed the role of a private sleuth and told his friends that he was engaged in running down an on im jut important Important criminal By this time he was considered a joke and his newly newl assumed I occupation brought him in but small re returns returns returns turns He finally secured by some means through the county attorneys office a paupers ticket to Omaha to be paid for forby forby forby I by the county Before leaving town he allowed it to be understood that he was going to that city to look up evidence in connection with the prosecution of ot Chief Sheets which proved to be but butone butone butone I one of ot the many fables woven by his imagination |