Show I I I I I LAND SWINDLE LOSS EACH 1 TO PERSONS IUS KANSAS S CITY T Feb Forty 14 Forty Forty- eight persons in m Kansas City and slid seventy nine elsewhere In Missouri I Iare are alleged to haye have purchased land landof landof I of A A. C. C Johnson who operated here as head of the Mexico l land company compan L. L A. A Johnson chief postal Inspector Inspector tor of the Kansas City office said here today A. A C. C Johnson was ar arrested arrested arrested ar- ar rested In Los Angeles Wednesday and charged with fraud in the sale of ot land in Mexico miles south of Vera Yera Cruz Losses of persons here who Invested in the land and were estimated by the postal Inspector to have averaged about Johnson Is said to have sold more than acres at an average average price of 50 an acre The land itis it itis itis is charged is almost worthless Johnson is under bond His wife and Miss B B. M. M Hodges as assistant assistant assistant as- as treasurer of 01 the comp company nr were arrested and released on their own recognizance The case caso will be placed before the fhe fed federal ral grand grand jury here next April |