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Show FREED FROM lb WILL ENTER ARMY James Wilson Has Close Call From Mann Act Prosecution. Special to The Tribune. OGDEN, May 24 James Wilson, 29 years of age, completed a sixty-day sentence at the county ia.il this afternoon after-noon upon a vagrancy charge and left immediately in company with Deputy Sheriff L. Anderson of Cache county for Logan, where he will be inducted into the army, and will probably leave on Monday for Camp Lewis. In his effort to evade the draft Wilson Wil-son almost ran afoul of federal prosecution prose-cution under the charge of violating the Mann white slave act. However, it was found that his operations had not been extended beyond the state boundaries. boun-daries. Jt was then found that he had falsified in his questionnaire by stating that he was married and was placed in Class 4. Later developments disclosed that Wilson was not married and he was immediately re-classified and placed in Class 1. Wilson was arrested in Ogden in company com-pany with Hazel Williams on March 13, by Deputy Sheriffs Pincock and Brown. The couple had been found in a local rooming house, where they were registered regis-tered as man and wife. The girl was released after Wilson had been sentenced sen-tenced to sixty days in jail. Immediately upon being sentenced Wilson said he desired to make amends to the exemption board at Logan, where he has registered and to the girl. On April 5 he secured a marriage license and married the Williams girl at the county .iail. Later his case was taken up by the Logan exemption board and he was placed in Class 1 and ordered inducted into service. |