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Show Swindler Ran Down. Some eight months ago a dashing young man named J. R. Simpson arrived in this c 1 Ly auu bwa. ijuniKis Bb luc jxuuiaiuru. lie announced that he was the general agent of the Edison company, of New York, and made the acquaintance of a large number of business men, particularly those engaged in the electrical line. Among them was Mr. Aunett, an old-time electrician, and Simoson finally told him that he would appoint him general agent of the company for Utah at a handsome hand-some salary. Anuett accepted, of course, and Simpson pretended to telegraph to the company for approval of his action. He afterwards showed Mr. Auuett a telegram indorsing the appointment, appoint-ment, but it has since been discovered that the dispatch was forged. Having completed the business satisfactorily, Simpson got An-nett An-nett to go on a draft for tlM and then skipped. Of course Annett had to pay the draft. The swindler, it seems, went from here to San Francisco and worked the same game ou a larger scale, his operations there netting net-ting him over $1000. Simpson was written up extensively in the San Francisco papers, but be could not be located by his victims. A short time ago Mr. Annett went East, and while in Omaha yesterday he was sur. prised to meet Simpson on the street. He promptly had the swindler arrested, end has telegraphed to Salt Lake for the papers upon which to bring him back. |
