Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1926-07-11 | Page 13 | Pair Held for China Swindle

I PAIR HELD FOR CHINA SWINDLE SEATTLE Wash July 10 10 By The Tha Associated Press For Press For It a swindle they perpetrated on a I northern China military chief James J Underwood 30 an aviator and E A Miller 29 were In Seat Seat- Seattie Seattle I tie tle today awaiting removal to Me Mc- Mc McNeil Nell Mc-Nell Nell Neil Island penitentiary the former to serve 30 months and the latter 18 They were brought here last I st night on the tho Steamship President McKinley Using an army rifle owned by Miller as a I sample the two t t vo ar- ar arranged ar arranged ranged with the Chinese leader to sell him 1500 rifles and lion tion Agents of the Chinese paid tile the pair with delivery delhery tobe to tobe tobe be made one midnight list last April When the tho Chinese arrived to ro re ro the goods they thc had tad purchased d they found neither rifles ammunition ammunition tion lion nor Americans American authorities arrested Miller Iller and Underwood on a train bound for tOt wife whom he married In China was Willi convicted and placed on proba probe probation tion for tor or a a year The cases were tried In the United States Stales c court court urt In China 00 oo