Ogden Daily Standard | 1917-03-09 | Page 12 | Woman Who Had Potatoes to Sell

I HI WHO HU I POTATOES 10 SELL Mrs. J. Q- Beck of Poplar Heights '-was visited yesterday by a Mrs. Sor-enson, Sor-enson, a strange woman, whom the police believe to have been formulat-ns formulat-ns a plan to rob the well-known room- ing and boarding house. They were apprised of the woman's visits, how-ever, how-ever, too late to make a capture. The woman, on her first visit, of-fcred of-fcred to sell Mrs. Bock 3000 pounds of potatoes for $250 per hundredweight. During the conversation she gave Mrs. Beck a telephone number which, she said, was that of a Mrs. Markus. who would recommend the potatoes as be-ing be-ing first class. The number was called and Mrs. Markus gave the promised commendation. The worn-an worn-an then gave her address to Mrs. Beck and departed. A man was next dis-patched dis-patched to the address given to got the potatoes, but the address proved to be a vacant lot near the old car barns on north Washington avenue. Last night Mrs Sorenson appeared again at Poplar Heights to collect her