Salt Lake Herald | 1908-03-27 | Page 8 | Is Question of Dentity

IS QUESTION QU STION OF t John Vigna Insists He Is John Vigna and Not Ernest as Suspected Although the police think that John Vigna Is not John Vigna he Insists that he Is The Tho police believe that the so called John Vigna whom they arrested last ast night Is Ernest Pres I a 11 young Ital Hal ItalIan Halian Ian an from Ogden It is claimed that the theman theman theman man came to Salt Lake from Ogden yes yesterday i erday morning and sent a telegram to toI I Dr Frank of or Ogden uncle of the thereal thereal thereal real John Vigna who Is a crip cripple pIe Ie now at Colorado Springs Colo Cole asking for 10 Dr Immediately wired the themon money mon to the tho address ad ress given South State street which is the Miners Saloon Soon afterward another telegram signed John Vigna was received Sib Siblie lie lis Is A second 10 was asked for far This made Dr suspicious and he asked the he Ogden O den police to make an investigation tion Through the Ogden authorities the matter was placed In the hands of the Salt Lake police Chief Pitt sent Detective to find the he sender of the telegrams was given a description of Ernest a ayoung ayoung young oung man who yesterday morning bor borrowed borrowed borrowed rowed 15 from Dr and came to Salt Lake He learned that the tIme high fi financier financier financier who had sent the telegrams and had md cashed the order for 10 sent by Dr answered to the description of Pres Prell ti While Detective was watching the he Miners saloon for forthe the appearance of the he young man for the answer to his second telegram Policeman Becksted ar arrested arrested arrested rested the suspect In the Eagle Gate saloon at First South and Commercial streets The prisoner admitted that he had sent the tIme telegrams but asserted that he was John Vigna and not Ernest and therefore had done nothing criminal In telegraphing for tor money under his true truename truename truename name The Ogden police will be called upon to untangle the knot