Show CAREER QUICKLY CHECKED OF MAN WHO PASSED AS NAVAL RECRUITING OFFICER f. ce r 2 20 0 1 w w l' l S ni c cl e a a es I a aU a ecru eY 9 5 eru ee ce r Y T Assistant i Treasurer t. t U United II States t i I tt j r n l 11 a l to the order l. l of ot t h i f it 0 I t. t wV F ID 0 In ra f j o R cent i ting OC Officer Cr Y 1 LOOK A i 00 50 NAVAL NA V Al t tJ J Y Rec u thc 1 WILL OPEN IN h 1 II E. E Booth United Slates attorney yesterday at 10 a. a m. m received a telegram tele- tele gram grain ram from front Washington ton Instructing him to apprehend Per y G G. G Olmstead At 20 2 20 j j 1 m m. he had his man under arrest and hind had secured enough evidence evidence evi evi- dence thence to I send nd him up tip for a Rood good sized siz d term terra To get set him him Mr l Booth and Captain Captain Captain Cap Cap- tain Smyth made trade a Hying trip to Provo where when the arrest was ma made e Olmstead has hns been posing as a re recruiting re- re officer for the hc United ignited d. d St States t d f naval service ser service In this capacity ho no has lias managed to cash bogus checks aim and of goods good secure a considerable amount and a nd credit h in Salt Fait Lake he stayed at I the he he hotel Under pretense of of officer leer he Induced Induced In iii- In- In being I. I a n United States the proprietor Richard Jones to cash checks s besides getting Into him biro for Cor a ji bon board Ill I'll hilt bill Two of or these checks were WIP minted dated July 9 Tho wore sero drawn tho limo assistant r l ar of s end ami Rn d I lm t trill d li rI dO O OiT rill T t M Se e e c tar a. a l 1 r the other for 10 It Ii was waR found fO that he had spent some sonic oC of this money mone nt at Gray Bros for clothing On another check dated August 2 he had hall o obtained the monc money 10 liitle Quick lime hiie 1 me United SinteR States Attorney Booth received rec re re- re- re c lived the telegram ordering him hint to obtain a t warrant al at 10 In the tho morning After fter he had La talked 11 cd with the proprietor tor o of the hotel the warrant was wa sworn to h by W. W M. M McRea his hh a. a ant It Il was al also 1 found Cound that Olmstead had been Jeen using a good man many automobiles automo biles and that for Cor the hire o oC of these he owed the lie Tom Automobile company over which he had hall paid with the same sort sOtt of or bogus hogus checks lie He had taken out an auto In the morning to go to to Provo Mr Booth also took look a machine and with him holm went Captain Smyth Sm th chile chief deputy inthe In Inthe Ind the office of or the United Slates marshal and Fred A. A Maynard l special assistant assist ant to the attorney general They left heft Zion at 1210 1910 HL 10 and arrived i at at Provo at 2 10 10 covering the I 14 H I mile without a hitch l h. h X T PROVO UTAH r f 14 jj I 1 O 0 1908 1903 Aug A VINI S SI nIJI It nor us s v n J IMIOTO OI- OI d fl had no sent nt nut l s staling that he would ho bo at Provo In his m assumed capacity as a n. recruiting officer It was thought at lit first that he might have done lOne this as a 1 blind to Lo enable him to get et away Instead of ot this they found round him at al work worl there and just before the party arrived he had succeeded in ht getting M E. E of 1 Provo 10 0 to indorse a check for 20 0 0 on whit which F h he h had obtained the monc money lie was arrested ryes fed and taken to the Utah count county Jail On his person lerson was found fount a photograph of himself and some sonic young oung woman taken laken apparently at al sonic some seaside resort Since the picture was taken he lie had hall shaved sha his tache On On- the return Journey to Salt Lake Lalo he admitted having posed as an officer and hand handed cd hack back the he 20 30 h ho hall hail obtained at Provo Pro with a request that thai it be he returned to Mr Not Talk ral lie would say nothing about or Ot whether Is his I name He tie Is a well dressed bright ap ap- pearlT g young man not a at al all like t i crool crooK What proved 1 nr Is the quick action taken by hy the department department department depart depart- ment at Washington lie Ile had told the hotel man that It would be some sonic time before the checks were heard from flom expecting that ho loo would get set well away Instead of or writing here hero the attorney general tele telegraphed Mr Mi Booth with the quick results noted The Tine papers are aro expected from Washington a ton in an early earh mail It will not be he known until they the arrive artI whit tt he hc will be he charged with But thanks to the prompt action of or United States Stales Attorney Booth there hero Is already sufficient sufficient suf sur- evidence a against the man 11 lie will be taken before Commissioner Baldwin today and 1111 a date set for the hearing nl It says sas something for tho the United Slates States authorities here when a a. I 11 1 1 mile trip can bo ho made an arrest artest effected ll lland secured in evidence and all necessary four hours' hours time line was experienced at nt No difficulty Provo Pro In making the ho arrest the 0 officers their man on easily casH reco recognizing eel cers s obtained ob oh- the tho description the street from Richard Jones of the Met Met- L from Crom and others |