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Show LAWYER ARRESTED OSV FRAUD CHARGE KANSAS CITT, Oct. 7. H. Leon Miller, an attorney, was nrrcsied bv a United States marshal here late today on a charge of using tho malls to defraud In connection with tho promotion of tho Winnipeg, Sallna fc Gulf railroad, which postofflce Inspectors declare exists only upon paper. Miller is president of the company. Before Judge Pollock in the federal court ho pleaded "not guilty," nnd was held under 515,000 bond. Miller was arrested as he entered Judge Pollock's court room to answer a charge of contempt for falling to turn over the property of the road to J. A. Kimball, who had been appointed receiver by Judge Pollock on application of the Brendlcy Construction company of New York, which expended ?C5,000 in making a survey for Miller. Postofflce Inspectors charge that Miller, In promoting the road, knowingly deceived de-ceived cities and Individuals through Kansas. According to the federal authorities, Miller would appear before the commercial commer-cial organizations of small towns and state that ho was president of the great system of railroads that wns to connect Winnipeg with the Gulf of Mexico, show maps that displayed a direct trunk line from that city to ono or more of the principal gulf points, and promise the town If Its business men would raise sufficient, suf-ficient, funds he would sec that tho place was represented on the board of directors and that terminals were located there. M. TT. Potter, banker and president of the Turon (Kansas) Commercial dub, furnished fur-nished letters which resulted in tho arrest. ar-rest. Those letters stated that the road had 529.000,000 paid up capital In banks In Paris. Miller admitted tonight that the Winnipeg Winni-peg & Sallna railroad had no right of way and no track, but maintained that It was backed by large financiers in Europe, Eu-rope, and that he was merely their agent. |