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Show I.W.W. AGITATOR LAUbHl IN UUIfcN i ! HINTS AT THE POSSIBILITY OF ASSASSINATION OF WILSON Robert W. Merriman was arrested this morning at 243 TOTty-sixth street by Deputies Robert Burke and Will Brown who had been directed h the sheriff to apprehend Merriman as ,. d m lerom 1 W " agitatoi Merriman is said to have been spreading unloyal propaganda about , ),,. .,. -i He . onfe-sed 10 ha', ing been run out of Sparks, Nov.. about April 22 bv a committee of citizens who made him kiss the American flag. Merriman was given a "shaking; down" this morning by the deputies, and Sheriff Peterson and several! statements alleged to have been made are said to have been acknowledged bv Merriman. Some of these were: "A crooked congress declared this class war and sent 250.000 simps over to be shot." "The I W. W.8 now under indictment indict-ment will be cleared, if there are any ( Ihristlana on the Jury." "You know what McKinley got and whnt Lincoln got.. Now let's see what did Garfield croak of " "The soldiers In khaki are all a; bunch of simps." j "They nailed Christ to a crooked stick. That Is what they are trying to 1 do with I. W W 's." Merriman acknowledged, according I to the sheriff, to having been pisrortc-d to the town limits of Sparks, Nev and told that he could not return. According Accord-ing to the story, ho had made many unpatriotic remarks there and was finally apprehended by a committee of CitlxenS. He was placed In an automobile automo-bile and accompanied to the town limits lim-its and then told that he could not return. re-turn. A small American flag was produced pro-duced and Merriman kissed the flag. After leaving Sparks, he worked his way into Ogden and has been here since last Thursday. He has traveled over almost all of the- west and the sheriff says he believes he has been ery active in spreading disloyalty and I W. W. propaganda. Merriman. when confronted with the statements given above, did not deny r that he had made them saying. "The newspapers got hold of them so there is no use denying them." H is being held in the county jail and tomorrow will bo examined by a representative of the United States li. p., mien' "i jn-tiri The federal department de-partment has been informed by Sheriff Sher-iff Peterson that Merriman is In custody cus-tody and Instructions were given to hold him until a special investigator from the head office In Salt Lake could come to Ogden to question him. |