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Show Travel Was His Trade ...... js';, y . . ! J , ti ARRESTED IN "WILDCAT" STAGE LINE PROBE D. A. Ackerman, alias Frank A. Foldenauer, alias...? One Jailed in Probe Of Wild Cat Stages Police Claim Ex-Convict Used Stolen Car for Transporting Travelers Police Tuesday launched an investigation of asserted "wildcat" stage lines with the arrest of an ex-convict who assertedly was hauling haul-ing passengers for hire in a stolen automobile. Held in the city jail was D. A.1 Ackerman. 28, alias James F. Rogers, Rog-ers, alias Frank Foldenauer, arrested arrest-ed by Detectives W. M. Rogers snd L B. Cifford at a West Temple street travel bureau. The officers said it was the second sec-ond stolen automobile they had recovered re-covered at the same place In t..e past nine months, in addition to recovery of three embezzled automobiles auto-mobiles there. Ackerman, they said, is wsnted in Visalia, Cal., for automobile theft and forgery and Is on conditional release from Leavenworth penitentiary, peni-tentiary, where he served time on a Dyer act charge. . The officers, ssid the automobile he was using wan stolen at Visalia. Detectives Rogers and Gilford made the arrest while checking the automobiles st the travel bureau. Ackerman was unable to produce ownership papers; snd, when he objected to being fingerprinted because be-cause of his "constitutional rights," he was jailed. Innocent travelers are often victimized vic-timized by the so-called "wild rat" stages, the detectives said. They 4 book passage across country at reduced re-duced rates and are hauled in automobiles auto-mobiles thst ars olten embezzled or stolen. There have been numerous Instances In-stances where passengers were abandoned in Salt Lake City or at isolated points in the surrounding mountain snd desert country, the officers said. They pointed out that the travel bureaus were not entirely to blame in as much as such bureaus usually act aa mere "middle men" between motorists who have automobiles and wish to carry passengers and passengers pas-sengers who wish to find such transportation. Ackerman, they said, will be turned over to agents of the department de-partment of justice for further investigation. in-vestigation. Last May the same detectives were checking an automobile at the same bureau when the driver disappeared. The automobile was found to hsve been stolen in New York City, snd the driver. George McKaey, was later arrested in St. Luis. He is under indictment here on Dyer act charges, according to agents of the department of justice. |