| Show ORIDA NABS MAN MANk k r HIVED BELIEVED IDE TO BE I DR LYMAN ST. ST PETERSBURG Fla I Feb cb 25 e man arrested and put in Jail here on the belief that he Is r. r J. J Grant Lyman wanted in New i ork on charges of having obtained ore than through illegal use the mails malHI maintained ml silence today arding his identity Local police o said they were convinced by check found In his effects and by his semblance to the New York fugitive 7 at he is the man wanted They are waiting arrival of New York de de- tives to pass upon the mans man's I entity Lyman L man left New York after aner exposure f t stock swindling operations of the irm arm of John H H. Putnam S. S Co of he was said to be the head operations of ot the Putnam company egan December 15 16 last About two rears ears ars ago Lyman is said to have for- for sited bail and amI fled from Los after conviction con and sentence o 0 fifteen months imprisonment there thereof of or f a land fraud He lie went to Europe ut returned and according to post- post authorities perpetrated a mail mall raud fraud in Boston Arrest fArrest of the man thought to be beman beyman man was made on n a vessel in the arbor here bere described as a small yacht r launch and known as the Leroy Police olice said the man recently bought the ship from two men who brought lier ler here from Chicago and that h hb he had prepared to provision here for a a. along along long voyage Reports bad had been current cur cur- rent for a week that Lyman was In Florida lorida and police in a dozen towns were seeking him I LOS S ANGELES Cal Cat Feb 25 25 The The ew York authorities' authorities claim to toT J J. J Grant Lym Lyman n. n who Is believed to be bein bein in in custody in Tampa Tamp Fla probably will NUl not be contested by federal officials officials officials of of- here where he is under sentence sentence sentence sen sen- tence of fifteen months for using the mails to defraud according to Robert OConnor O'Connor assistant United States district disc dial dis dis- l c attorney In New York he be Is alleged alleged al alleged al- al to have netted by mailI mail mall I frauds We do not seek Lyman here at this time unless his bis bondsmen wish to have 1 him surrendered OConnor O'Connor said today to- to day Lyman was was out on bail pending the outcome of an appeal not yet decided when he disappeared from this city more than a a. year ago Gorham Gor- Gor ham Tufts his principal bondsman is isnow isnow isnow now in New York |
