Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-09-30 | Page 3 | Bank Bandit Offer Ford Invention for Auto

BANK BANDIT OFFE FORD FOR i iSAN SAN FRANCISCO Sept 3 3 mothers mother's plea that h he pray uray for p forr ago age has brought new life to Edwin Walden Valden black sheep of a we Eastern family who while fop recently robbed a Mission of In daylight and escaped athe a athe athe the city in an auto chase I Van Walden Valden has written to B H Ford seeking to interest him bim in a 0 a a engine which engine which Val Walden en declares wilt will net him a year He tells Ford he I the robbery to net get et capita marketing his lila engine The hope of ot getting Ford to look his Invention was bred In the by his mothers mother's letters in one of v e eshe she wrote I hope you will not forget to every night and amI ask God to lead out of your trouble Ask His derance derance d dI erance and His help for there is st Sl times grace in the adverse if can see it in that light Out of there cometh good This is a fac let us hope out of this chaos you emerge to the life Ufe of a greater ai at brighter day not only for you but bui us all In order to remove this ter ten pall which now overshadows us which seems to envelop us as in darkness of the terrible night w iv seems to have no end In cheering him she wrote that fornia fomia is considered foremost of ofin atin st at stin in prison reform and told of ha days spent here as a girl saying sides that she wanted to come J JI for lor his trial I In his letter to Ford Van Wa s says saya in part Although a genius and a mar mar millions I i know you are are- human understand the foibles and h human uman nature For the last two years I have 1 t s slowly lowly but surely evolving a fuel e engine It is so superior to the gf gi l line ine engine now in use I firmly bel j it will revolutionize the entire auto b bile bUe ile industry It will effect a naU e economy conomy of ot at least It q quires no fuel makes no noise sm sin o or r odor and but little vibration Imore I 1 Imore more simple in construction and c cless cc l less ess to build than the gasoline eng It was my intention to form terra a 0 corporation to make or sell i i it s soon oon as I had perfected It I can r f feet it and have it ready to manu mann t ture ure in three or four months I kr my first years year's profits will amount at least 1 Then he frankly recounts his atter t to o rob the bank saying as he E a Ewhen Ewhen when captured that his loot was be used as capital in working out i Invention 1