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Show FAILS TO HEED SiGN; BEG0WIS01ER Telegraph Operator Spends Three Hours in Compound at Fort Douglas. Thomas Victor Hoff, a Short Line telegraph operator of Ger'maa blood and a recent Arrival in Salt Lake, spent about thrco hours in the war prison guardhouse at T'ort Douglas yesterday as a result of trespassing upon war prison territory. Hoff, who formerly -worked for the "Western L'nion at Kansas City, and who came her? about ten days ho to work for the Snort Line, vent out to the post, and, despite the big sigi'S wbieh are posted about the Avar camp, walked across the forbidden lines and was found wandering about on forbidden forbid-den territory. Hof t was immediately taken into custody, and when ho was ssked if he had not'scen tbe " Keep out'' firns, admitted iu German dialect that he' had but said he had not understood under-stood H. Hoff's dialect, and appcarance proclaimed pro-claimed him of German Mood, aud, under un-der instructions from the prison . commandant, com-mandant, he vras placed id the prison giiardhou?e and held for about three hours while an investigation wo 3 made-After made-After the investigation disclosed who and what he if, and that be is a citizen, citi-zen, he was released but not beforr. being be-ing sriven a solemn warning". to beware of trespassing u;on' prisou property aeain. While Hoff was sojourning in the suardhouse, four women and three men from out of the city walked unconcernedly uncon-cernedly past the b'g warning sign at the entrance to the war prison camp, and proceeded to trespass upon the prison territory. They were sen from the headquarters office and the men wee promptly taken into custody. At headquarter they said thy had not seen the sign. T'udcr guard they were sent acb to the sin and required to read it. This i hat they read: "This is a nar prison, not a park. ight?cers are not allowed. If you are on business, busi-ness, go to war pon he-adouarters; if not, KKKP OUT." After they had read the sign the men were sent down to the department of justice, where they v. re Vjuestiond at some length, warned against wandering arimd prison camps and thei released ai'tr they had promised to keep away from prison ''an p property in the fu-t'-.: e. The department did not make public the name of the visitors who were arrested but later released. Warning signs ha e been posted all about the war prison camp at Fort Poiiglfls. and the signs are fo big that they can hardly be overlooked, but, despite de-spite this fact, people are constantly trespassing upon the forbidden territory. ter-ritory. Many isitors to the post apparently read the sins but pay no attention to them, calmlv walking on pat the lines into forbidden territory. Those who are caught, doing tliia will be promptly arrested and sent up-ier guard to tbe department of justice for investigation and prosecution, if necessary, it is announced. |