Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-07-22 | Page 4 | The Fall Guy

I TUllE THE FALL PALL QUY GUV i TT IT HAS taken several years to get Albert B B. IT 1 Fall behind the bars The treasonable act which he committed and for which he was wa convicted occurred nine or ten years ears ago but for one reason or another he has succeeded succeeded succeeded suc suc- suc- suc in deferring the penalty p to the point where ordinary patience was well nigh exhaust ex- ex haust d. d The other day with great ostentation he lie herode rode several hundred miles In an ambulance escorted along the highways of the state which had signally honored him to the gates of the penitentiary Under the claim or oz the pretense of illness ill illness illness ill ill- treated differently from the ness Fall was ordinary prisoner From the thc moment he was had been tumbled from his high position he given extraordinary treatment in fact When he was received in the state prison at Santa Fe he found a comfortable r room om awaiting him He was not subjected to the same routine treatment as other prisoners His coming took on a more or less gala ap ap- ap He became a guest Albert B. B Fall is a traitor to his country and will go down in history in the same cn category category cate cate- te- te gory as Benedict Arnold and any other public public pub pub- lic lie servant who betrayed a a. sacred trust Aside from being a traitor he is no better criminal and and no worse than an ordinary should have been treated as other malefactors malefactors tors have been treated He chose to place himself in the same class with thieves and crooks Instead of his advanced age being a ait ao o it mitigating circumstance his offense committed committed com corn in the wisdom of years jears and nd discretion should have magnified instead of minimized his punishment The sordid story of this Fall person weakens weakens weakens weak weak- ens the confidence of all people in the efficacy efficacy efficacy effi effi- cacy of law and j Justice