Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1924-04-22 | Page 4 | W. O. W. Clerk in Fraud Case

IW W lye 0 W CLERK I CASE Prosecute Physician Physician Clerk for False Statements of I Injuries I MEMPHIS Tenn April 22 2 21 Dr r r Charles Charle W V Baker 63 13 a ph v- v at I enn a x all I II- II laire 11 lage lag 30 miles mile north of this city was waa arrested by federal authorities authorities ties late lat today on a a 0 an arrant na n rant charging misuse minis of ot the mails inilla In connection with Ith the th alleged col- col collection collection col collection lection of fraudulent claims chaIms from the Woodmen of tile the th World fraternal fra- fra fraternal In Internal Insurance organization with headquarters In tn Omana Neb HELD IN IX JAIL JUL Baker w was brought here her and lodged in jail pending a k hen hearing ring tomorrow before a Stat States commissioner Baker Doker Is alleged to have ave s se- se secured se secured cured several Beveral thousand dollars dollar from th thi home office of o the order on allt alleged ged fraudulent claims o oh permanent disability of o members of oC the tho Ross Ros camp of he was until recently both clerk and physician It 11 H Lackey In- In inspector In Inspector tor for the order who In connection with nith Ith the cast case saId the attention ot of the th home horn office wu was directed to an nn unusual llon tion In the ho th camp In 1920 1090 Claims for permanent dis- dis disability dis ability ty began to filter In he said at the rate of one a month All the tho claims according to Mr Laeke Lacke were approved td by Dr Baker as a camp physician and at- at attested tested at-tested tested by him as aa a camp clerk TOOK RAKE RUU orr OIT whose name names red no na did not tho full tull amounts mount for tor their supposed disability according to Ice i Inspector a Instead It Is alleged Baker paid the claimants minor I sums and nd appropriated the Iho re- re remainder remainder re remainder I me Fhe specific p cases are aTO ar charged to Dr n Baker r r In none nono non of these rases the government alleges was the patient ph physically disabled tn In any appreciable degree dezree