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Show SALT LAKE IMPOSTOR IN SALT LAKE CITY Salt Lake. Feb. 19 Declaring him-self him-self to be Charles M Smith, a son of, Milton H Smith, president of the Louisville &. Nashville railroad. John Roy Dew, a young man of presentable present-able appearance, succeeded in living upon the fat of the land in Salt Lake,! aftei his arrival here several das ago. until he was arrested at the Ho- ' tel 1'tah yeeterdaj afternoon by De- I tectlves W. C. Zeese and Herbert Lelchter Soon after his arreM. Dew acknowl. edged his real identitx to the detectives detec-tives and added that he was the sun jof a prominent railroad man of si Ixjuls. Mo Immediately upon his arrival here from Denver. Dew sought A. IE. t Barker, depot master of the Oregon , Short Line By means of telegraph dispatches, he impressed Barker wlih his genuineness The telegrams were secured by Dew- in a unique fashion, It lis said At various stations between here and Denver the young man Is snid to have left the train long enough I to ask the dispatcher If anv word had i been received as to the location of the private car of Milton H. Smith, his alleged father When the dispatcher dis-patcher answered Invariably in the negative, he was asked if he would please Inquire and telegraph the word ahead to Chnrles M Smith at the next station. That the dispatchers approached ap-proached obligingly complied was made evident by the telegrams shown i to Mr. Barker by Dew. Benl to Charles j M. Smith at different Bt&tlons along the Denver A Rio Grande Dew Immediately established i lino of credit with Barker and borrowed He explained that his father's private car must surely he along with-Id with-Id a day or two aud that then the I i money would be repaid with interest 1 I Sunday Barker showed Dew about the; . city taking him to the state prison I Monday the young man repaid Barker; $". from monev that be had horrow-j horrow-j cd elsewhere on the strength of his alleged fake Identity. During the lime that he was creating creat-ing a sensation In local railroad circle-; and causing newspaper reporters to sharpen their pencils in anticipation anticipa-tion of the Interview with President Smith of the Louisville & Nashville, he lived luxuriously at the Hotel Utah. He paid Ivs bill at the hotel yesterday shortly before hia arrest In tail la St night Dew acknowledged that he hod borrowed as much as $40 In all from different railroad and pro. fessional men Eieber C. Smith of the state dairy and food commissioner's office, said that be loaned Dew 61 Barker visited Dew in his cell at the city jail Ian night and secured an 0 der for $9 found on the young man when he was searched at police head-1 head-1 quarters After he had secured the I monev from the desk sergeant Bark-1 Bark-1 er left laughing, remarking that he j could afford to pay the $1 which be was still short for the experience. |