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Show SPENDS $10,000 ON SPREE, MAN CLAIMS A S. Crumpton, Jailed on Charge of Fraud, Says He Has No Trouble Obtaining Wnisky. Arrested on a charge of obtaining money by false pretenses. A. S. Crump-ton, Crump-ton, alleged confidence man. confessed to deputy sheriffs that lie had blown $10.-000 $10.-000 in a drunken spree of several days' duration. He said that he spent $200 for whisky and $60 for lodging and entertainment enter-tainment at a Salt Lake rooming house, having no difficulty getting the liquor as long as his money lasted, when he began be-gan pledging jewelry to continue his carouse. Crumpton was taken at his residence after he had failed for several days to appear at his extensive suite of downtown down-town offices, where six stenographers were found busy with his correspondence. He was ostensibly engaged in selling oil stocks. Mrs. Katherine Bezek of Tooeae, however, did not get the stock for which s!ie had paid good money and, after being be-ing repeatedly put off. had a complaint issued against Crumpton. Deputy Sheriffs C. C. Carsrensen. C. E. Wood. Al Pritchard and Tony Man re r had kept wati'h for the man several davs. finally tracing him to his residence. He admitted to the deouties that he had passed the time of his disappearance at a rooming house on a spree. The man is said to have operated extensively. Several Sev-eral of his stenographers told that he owed I hem money. They were hired at .$125 a month. The Vnited States authorities authori-ties are Invent :u-af ing his case on the rr-h.uice of obtaining a conviction oi using ' i';ic mails to cieftaud. |