Ogden Daily Standard | 1916-01-20 | Page 1 | Letter Writing Crank Arrested

LETTER WRITING CRANK ARRESTED San Francisco. Jan. 20 John Paul Winn, who is said by the police to have been writing to President Wilson Wil-son for tho past two or three months demanding money and drafts is under arrest here and is to bo examined by a sanity commission. Winn was taken into custody at the Southern Club where he was employed. employ-ed. When confronted with the letters let-ters he had written to the president he confessed, according to tho police, and declared that it was the right of every American to write to tho president presi-dent for money. Winn told the detectives that he was tho son of a Presbyterian minister min-ister of Petersburg, Virginia.