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Show LIEUTENANT llffl SERIOUS CHARGES Accused - of Obtaining Money Under False Pretenses. Lieutenant R. Sturgls, until yesterday attached to the Forty-second infantry at Fort Douglas, was arrested at the Wit-son Wit-son hotel last night on the complaint of the manager of the hotel, who charged that the man had cashed $50 worth of checks which proved spurious. Sturgis is said to be from a wealthy Massachusetts family and a graduate Cf Harvard university. A brother officer, who is a Yale man, appeared at the police po-lice station shortly after the army officer was arrested and made the checks good, saying1- that he had 38 cents left after doing so. Just as Sturgis was about to be released, re-leased, an officer appeared on the scene and said that he had a complaint from the Lodge cafe that $40 worth of worthless worth-less paper, with Kturgis's name affixed to It. was held there. The friend was unable to make this good. It was said that the young man is from a line family in the east and is of exemplary character. He pleaded that he cashed checks when drinking and Chief White warned the cafe owners present, saying: "Some of you fellows are going to get shot some morning for selling liquor to soldiers. A recent federal decision deci-sion construes such action as treason." Another brother officer appeared after ; midnight and the accused man was released re-leased on 10 bail. A charge of obtaining obtain-ing money on false pretenses was placed against him. Lieutenant Sturgis was one of a number num-ber of provisional second lieutenants appointed ap-pointed from a civilian training school and attached to the regiments at Fort Douglas. 1 !e was temporarily commissioned and only a few days ago an order was received re-ceived at the local post from the war department de-partment revoking his temporary com-miss com-miss on on the ground that he had not "made good" as an officer. This removed re-moved him from the army service. |