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Show SWINDLERS GET OUT OF SALT LAKE Salt Lake, March 30 Investigation yesterday into the alleged fraudulent operations of Greenwood Armitage ond W F. Galbraith, under the name of the Pinkerton Ac Company Nation al Detective agency resulted In the belief that the two men had fled from Salt Lake about two weeks ago The flight is thought to have followed fol-lowed rumors that the federal government gov-ernment was about to launch charges of fraud against the company which adopted a name similar to that of the Pinkerton National Detective agency. It was announced last Sunday by V I. Willsie, chief of the local division of the Pinkerton Detective agency that charges of fraud had been issued against the backers of the Imitation company. Armitage and Galbraith had offices in the Newhouse building and operated operat-ed under the firm name of the Utah Petroleum ProducLs company. A man who represented himself to be John A Salisbury, a consulting engineer, but who is in reality thought to have been Armitage, rented the suite of BSBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBMBsflaSBBBBBBB offices March i n,. fitted them op lavishly Ith Ihe l" -t of furniture. About two weeks ago the two men disappeared, le;iiii their furniture and office fixtures intact Tli v have not been Been since. J. w Warden, who is in charge of the building, s.'-ys that the two men had paid thetr rent until April 1 He says that while ho uuderst.'tnds the furniture is the property of some local furniture company, com-pany, no one has called lor it Mr. Willsie. estimates that the two men obtained probably as much as $10,000 from local business men. |