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Show SHARP ARRIVES WITHPRISOWER Sheriff Brings Hack Mail Wanted for Obtaining Money Under False Pretenses. EVADES DETECTIVES OF THE VARIOUS AGENCIES Was About to Fight (he Requisition Requisi-tion When Salt Lake Olficer Arrived. After traveling at the rate of uhnoul 100D miles por day sinco leaving hero n week ago Saturday. Sheriff Joseph C. Sharp returned from Wllllninsporl, Pa., Saturday nlghl at 6 o'clock, having In custody A. D. Walk, alias Donald Walker, Walk-er, alias Lieutenant E. K. Scranlcn, alias a half-dozen other names, wanted hero for obtaining money under false pretenses. pre-tenses. Walk Is alleged to have cashed worthless checks on the National Bank of the Republic for $175. Darling in and out of various cities throughout tho United States nnd Mexico. Walk, who Is the scion of one of the first families of Pennsylvania and a graduate of Princeton university, uuccccdcd by his affable iniuiner nnd daring methods in evading 1 lie LMnkcrtou detectives and other detectives of various agencies. Ills trail was picked up time after lime, only to be lost again. I Jo was llnally heard of In Now York City and was shadowed from thero to Philadelphia arid thenco to Buffalo. ' Traces Again Lost. All trace of Walk was again lost at that place, and Plnkorton men working on olueM traced him from there to Wll-llamsport, Wll-llamsport, whero he was pointed out to plain-clothes men working under Chief of Polico C. "Ur. Bathurst, who ordered his arrest as a fugitive from Justice, f'hlof Hutliurst Immediately wired Sheriff Sher-iff Sharp that his man was In custody Walk, upon beginning his operations In SaU JjuIcc City, drew a certificate of deposit on the Motropole National bank of San Francisco, which ho deposited with Assistant Cashier C. A. Cnlbertson of the National Bnnk of the Republic. Before tho bank officials had had time to ascertain- his stnndlng he drew three checks, amounting to 3175. and cashed them. I la then disappeared. Sheriff Sharp's Statement. Speaking of his trip. Sheriff Sharp said: "I received the word, obtalnod the requisition papers and left hero on May US at noon. 1 had lo lay over about twenty-five hours of that time, and I arrived ar-rived here Saturday night at C o'clock. During tlmt llnic I covered nioro than 5000 miles. I arrived at Ilarrisburg. Pa., at C o'clock in the morning, met Governor Gover-nor ISdwin S. Stuart at 1) o'clock, had the papers honored, and left at 1 o'clock for Wllliamsport, whero 1 met Chief of Police Po-lice C. W. Bnthurst. Chief Hathurst Is courtesy personified. While at Williams-port Williams-port I heard that Walk was preparing to fight the requisition; In fat-t, I was Informed that his attorney, employed by influential friends, was at that moment on tho way from Philadelphia. I lost no time In getting my prisoner to tho train, nor did we loso any tlnio In getting back to Utah. 1 heard that Walk passed a check In Wllliamsport for ?50 the day prior to his arrest, so, you nee. he was operating up to tho last moment. I am glad to bo back." Sheriff Sharp was informed that Walk was a "smooth article," and took every precaution to bring him back. lie placed a belt "on the prisoner, tho handcuirs of which woro fastened to a chulr, allowing UK; prisoner to place his hands In his trousers pockets, thus hiding tho cuffs from the view of tho public. j |