Show I I REVIVE R V VE Y v OLD LAW V rOn fOR BENEFIT Of or RECRUITS T. T The Tho he convenient game same of ot beating the government recruiting recruiting- stations stations' out of or several days' days board and lodging together with transportation to various parts of t the country under the tho pretense of ot being a possible r recruit will soon bo be a lost Jost artif artif art if It tho the measures taken recently b by the war department to protect Itself can be bee enforced throughout the country country- By delving Into tho the statutes a a haa has been found which h makes the little graft a violation of at government law laws As i a test caso caso- the grand jury fury of ot West Vest Virginia Vir Viz ginia has hns Indicted ono man roan under tho law Tho The be would recruit received aone a aone a aona one ona years year's sentence In tho the government penitentiary For many months th the local recruiting office with Capt Cap O. O B. B Me Meters Meyers ers In charge has haa had considerable trouble with this this' f sort ort of or game Men len apply at the recruiting recruiting recruit recruit- ing office with the seeming Intentions I of ot bc becoming members o of Uncle Sams Sam's fighting fight fight- ing lag force torce The Thc They secure several da days dais s free board and lodging and after atter hav- hav passed the tho examinations are often orten enlisted for or service In some regiment at ata a great reat distance from tram this dt city By a a precedent followed In all recruiting recruit recruit- In inS ing stations tho the recruit does not take the the tho oath until h ho arrives s at the post of ot ass assignment u ment When he gets sets off the train and hikes In tho the opposite direction from his post with 8 several cral dollars of govern government mont ment expense money In his pocket t and a a. good goodly chunk chunk of ot terra firma between himself him him- I I self elf and nd his previous location all all all' at the I expense of tho government he ho cannot bo be legally called a deserter nor nOI treated as as' such sch If apprehended Heretofore tho the only charge that could be bo referred preferred a against such uch men men was as that of ot obtaining obtaining money under false falso pret pretenses ne and owing to the the conditions attendant attendant upon the affair such a thin thing as rosec I lion ion o by civil authorities authorities was was close close to im im- im pos possible But by tho the president precedent prec established by tho the federal grand jury of West Nest Virginia lnla the perpetrator of the graft raft after I this stands a fair chance of ot having having a n gov government secret service man man at bJ hip hie heels and a year or more of or retirement n in n some some- government prison on the charge chargo of ot de defrauding defrauding de- de I Undo Sam |