Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-10-20 | Page 36 | Gouled Guilty

army. Gouled will appeal, without doubt, and may finally escape the meshes of the law, unless the case is vigorously prosecuted. We hope he is eventually convicted and put into stripes for years to come. We also hops that the army captain who betrayed bis trust, accepted bribes and then turned state's evidence, will not be allowed to escape punishment. Gouled is a thief, but the crime of Vaughan is murder, if any of the soldiers in France died as a result of being furnished with rotten clothing. GOULED GUILTY. An' army contractor, Felix Gouled, has been found guilty of conspiracy to defraud the government of income taxes on profits made in manufacturing army raincoats. The conviction was brought about by the testimony of an army captain, cap-tain, one Vaughan, who had obtained a place m the quartermaster's department. depart-ment. Vaughan pleaded guilty and told the whole story. Attorney Podell, also indicted, was shrewd enough to obtain acquittal and wil be able to continue business at the old stand. The indictment indict-ment against Gouled charged that he had procured contracts for army raincoats rain-coats for manufacturers not satisfactory satisfac-tory to the quartermaster's department, through use of a "slush fund" collected col-lected from the concerns getting the .ontracts. Captain Vaughan was bribed and accepted rotten raincoats for use of the men fighting ia Europe. The count upon which Gouled was convicted, however, charged defrauding the government gov-ernment on income taxes, which is not so serious a matter as palming off flimsy articles of clothing upon the