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Show Iff PHI IBS HIEltS Fi atii t mm Sheriff Sharp Goes to Coast City to Return AYifh a Prisoner. Sheriff Sharp left for Los Angeles ou the Eos Angoles limited at S o'clock Eridny night to return.Ccc.il C. Andrews, An-drews, charged with embezzling in the neighborhood of 'r.'OOO from the Klein Fruit company of Los Angelos, for which ho was local iigenl. to this city lo face prosecution on the charge of embezzlement. Although Andrews is alleged to have misappropriated something like $-1000 belonging to the fruit company, the complaint, upon which ho is being returned re-turned to this eify charge him with the embezzlement of'onlj- $50. .SO. His alleged al-leged embezzlements covered a period of a year, ranging in amounts from to $171. and wen; committed while he was acting as local agent for the Los Angeles concern, but the alleged $50. SO embezzlement, which the complaint, fixes as having been commuted on February is last, was the only one that could be. tracked with a sufficient degree de-gree of definiteness to warrant prosecution. prosecu-tion. Andrews, who i being held by the police of Los Angeles, is understood to be perfectly will'iig to return here, so Sheriff Sharp does not carry requisition requisi-tion papers from the governor of Utah upon the governor of California for the extradition of the prisoner. What Andrews did with the money he i.s alleged to have collected and misappropriated mis-appropriated is a matter of conjecture, but wine, women and song are said lo havo been responsible for his alleged downfall. Tlie fruit company, it is said, became aware of Andrews's embezzlements em-bezzlements I wo or three weeks ago, but Andrews evidently learned of this, for he immediately quit the city, .lust wjiyjie returned to Los Angeles, where his firm is. is unknown, j Tlie fruit company learned of An -1 drews's presence in os Angeles -two or j three days nijo, and immediately- informed in-formed Sheriff Sharp that it wanted Andrews returned lo this city and prosecuted. Sheriff Sharp Thursday wired Sheriff W. A, Jlnnimel of Liis Angeles county, who had tho police there pick him up. |