Ogden Daily Standard | 1915-11-15 | Page 10 | Sheriff Sends Sad News to a Father

SHERIFF SENDS SAD NEWS TO A FATHER Provo, Nov. 14. Sheriff Henry Easi has received a letter from T. J. Van Asdalo of Soulsbyvillc, Cal., asking i for information about his son, Roy t; Van Asdale. Tho father states that the last ho heard of his son wa3 in ' a letter written at Provo, in which the young man said he was just starting start-ing out for Alaska and would not be home until August, 1916. The father discredits this story and asks the sheriff to inform him of the where- ; abouts of his son According to the letter Roy is 13 , years of age, 5 feet 10 inches tall, n,r.:Ur- -ten nn..n,in nj u t.. . i. n ciguo iuu jjuuiiiia i.uu uiio uiu,) UUH hand, the left one having been ampu- ,J tated. J The sheriff has written the father v and informed him that Charles Walk- er, answering the description in every i particular, was sentenced to the Utah state prison by Judge A. B. Morgan '. on October 12, 1915, for one to ten ' years. The young man entered a ; plea of guilty to forging a check for i' ?10 and passing the same at the Spen- cer cafe of this city. Sheriff East says that Charles Walker and Roy Van Asdale are one and the same.