Show I Blue Sky Peddlers May Fight Return to Salt Lake for Trial M. M 1 M M. Varr Warren n post postoffice inspector has returned from Los Angeles where he was vas called called- in connection with the arr arrest st of G. G W W. Cockley and Romulus C Corti wanted by the government to answer charges of misusing the United States mails They have until next Friday Fri to decide whether they want to return to Salt Lake voluntarily or Of have hav a hearing in in Los Angeles In the event ent that they deina demand d a I hearing in Los Angeles it wu wilt will be he held heldon on March 8 8 j i As a res results result lt of ot the investigations of ot post postoffice Ice in inspectors Salt Lake merchants merchants merchants mer mer- chants who cashed worthless paper for y before he left Salt Lake may I bring attachment suits against the Cockley baggage Three trunks are arenow arenow arenow now held by the Salt Lake Route for storage ch charges in Los Angeles Angeles' Likewise the Baltimore hotel is holdIng holding holding hold hold- ing some Borne of or Cockley's personal effects Cockley and nd Corti are held in jail in Los ros Angeles in default of ot 2000 bail ball Before leaving Salt Lake Cockley cashed worthless checks with three Salt Lake b business houses housos Ho He followed followed followed fol fol- fol- fol lowed the checks with a letter explaining explain explain- ing leg that he had been suddenly called to 10 his mine In Idaho and had not had time to make a deposit According to the postoffice Inspectors Inspectors inspectors tors h h he then had purchased his railroad rail rail- Toad road ticket to Los Lo Angeles inline inthe name of ot J. J L. L Shaw haw and shipped his trunks trunk to Los Angeles The trunks were consigned consigned con con- signed to J J. W W. Edmunds a fictitious s name the Inspectors say Cockley and Corti are wanted by bythe bythe bythe the government to answer to charges of ot making impossible promises In lit literature literature lit lit- sent cent through the mails malls They posed as promoters of the Idaho MinIng Mining Min Mm- ing leg company While the company was duly Incorporated under the laws of ot otSo So South th Dakota the Inspectors assert that the company had no rights in Idaho mining claims when the articles of ot incorporation were filed They are alleged to have left lett a path of ot regretful Italians from New York to Salt Lake The Salt Lake operations according to local officials were not extensive One Salt Lake Italian Steven was Induced to buy one tine green stock certificate purporting to be shares of st stock t ck With the arrest of Cockley and Corti thre threats ts are said to have been made against some of the victims j it If they dared to appear as witnesses witnessed against t them According to the local Inspectors inspectors tors Lors the Informants of ot the government government govern govern- ment are re in no d danger ger of harm decla delain de declaring de- de cla claring lain that the threat ha has had been circulated cir ch only to weaken the case against Corti orti and Cockley In federal indictment Corti is under Is wanted by the New ew York and also state tate of New York The government wants Corti to answer to O a New New conspiracy to f ac- ac c- c indictment charging fraud raud It is alleged that he with other others det defraud u t to entered conspiracy a IlOf of jOO A Ac- Ac George W. W Fairchild Il Of i J 1 y cording g to the gover government indictment I I two of ot the men Involved represented I to that another man had purchased stock in n a a mine in WashIngton Washington Wash Wash- ington at 5 a share The pair asserted t that at the holder of I the stock did not know of rich that had been made and that they would be glad to pay a share for feor forthe the stock Fairchild it is alleged was was Ind induced ced to buy the stock at t t 5 to find that the prospective purchasers at had fled and ultimately that no such mine existed The New York state authorities yesterday yes yes- res-I res esterday es- es wired the postoffice Inspectors as well as the Los Angeles police that Corti is II wanted there to answer a I charge of grand l larceny rC ny |