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Show Paul of Phone Fame Arrested While Waiting Company Claims Young Man Was Over-fond of Cheap Talk. A YOUNG man of twenty-one summers, sum-mers, piving his name as W. J. Paul, occupies a cell in the city .iail, pending investigation into what local officials of the Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph coDipan;' declare to bo a new form of swindle. ' Obtaining service uuder false pretenses." pre-tenses." should a statute be discovered which would apply tu the case, will be the substance ot the charge upon which the young man will be prosecuted. Several days ago the telephone company com-pany put through a call from Ogden to Oakland, Cal., for a stranger who used a booth phone in the lobbv of one of the small hotels in the Junction City, it seems that the party putting in the call had requested that it be charged at the Oakland end. and the long-distance operator had called the hotel's desk telephone tor the purpose of ascertain ing ir tne supposed guest was reliable. It was then, according to telephone company com-pany officials, that the game was I worked. The originator of the call, it appeared ap-peared from investigation afterwards, had chosen a time when no employee of tho hotel was on duty in the office, and when the inquiry concerning the responsibility respon-sibility of the man wanting to talk to Oakland was made, answered the telephone himself and quite cheerfully vouched for himself. So it was that tho call was put through, and the same operation oper-ation was repeated on the following day. s Yesterday the telephone company received re-ceived a request from a phone located at 69 West Second South street to nut tnrough a connection to Oakland, the party asking that the charges be reversed. re-versed. Also, the name of the person wanted in Oakland was the some. In the meantime the bill for the two former calls sent to Ogden had been repudiated at the Oakland end, and the telephone company was "laying for" the longdistance long-distance conversationalist. So. instead of furnishing the service, officials notified noti-fied police headquarters. Detective C. A. Williams proceeded to the address. There he found Paul waiting patiently for his connection. He was taken to headquarters and searched, the operation yielding a single dime. He is said to have admitted that he had resorted to fraudulent methods in obtaining ob-taining service ont of Ogden, but volunteered volun-teered to work out the amount of the bill, $24. So, if the telephone company would give him the chance. |