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Show oo SWINDLER TAKEN IN BY THE POLICE Salt Lake, Nov. IS. J. B. Bauer, who gives his age as 61 years, his occupation as "retired farmer," and his desldence as Los Angeles, was arrested ar-rested at 2.30 o'clock yesterday afternoon after-noon by Detectives C. A. Williams and Richard Eddington. Bauer was locked In the city jail after he had been photographed and measured according ac-cording to the Bertlllon system. A complaint charging him with attempt lo defraud Hans Sorenson and Christian Chris-tian Sorensen out of 510,000 is being drawn by Assistant County Attorney H. Van Dam and will be filed this morning, according to Inspector of Police Carl Carlson. The Sorensons are brothers, and are wealthy, middle-aged farmers irom .eDrasKa. ians resides at Boe-lus, Boe-lus, and Christian at Nyled. According Accord-ing to their story, Christian Sorenson has been held a week at the Peery hotel by Bauer, while Hans -wont back to his home to get cash to the amount of $10,000, in order that he might satisfy Bauer that checks, which he and Christian had tendered in betting on a "horse race," were worth their face value. Hans went back to his home town and returned to Salt Lake, but not with the ?10,000. Instead he brought with him his son, C, E. Sorenson, a young man of 30 years, who resides at Roclcville, Neb , and who is wiser in tho ways of the world than his father, or uncle. The father and son yesterday told the story to the officers offi-cers and Bauer was arrested just as he was ready to send Christian Sorenson Soren-son back to his home, according to the latter's statement. When Bauer had been photographed and measured, Frank S. Spooner, head of the Identification bureau, by comparison of the records and fingerprints, finger-prints, discovered that Bauer had been arrested in San Francisco on a similar charge, but that the case against him had failed for lack of evidence. Bauer was visibly agitated as he signed his name to the record and remarked; "I'm pretty nervous today. A good drink of whiskey would do me good " The suggestion fell on deaf ears. The Sorenson brothers are totally unacquainted with this city and have so far been unable to furnish tbe officers of-ficers with a sufficiently adequate description de-scription of the room and localitv in which the alleged betting on "the "horse races" was done to enable tho police to proceed in their search. rt.- |
