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Show SECOND WRIT FOR JAPANESE Attorney Attempts to Have Okata Freed: Seattle Detective Here The second writ of habeas corpus eking the release from the city 'Jail of George rikiita. a Japanese with many abuses, who V said to be one of , the most clever sw'odlers in the west, ihas been filed In the district court by A. Q. Horn attorney for the prisoner I A writ filed t-n days ago was quashed ! b former Judge A. W. Agee. I The writ Is directed to Jonathan Jones, captain of the Ogdcn police department, de-partment, miuI is returnable by thej court next ThuraSai DETEX7TIVE HER Chad Ballard, detective from the Seattle Se-attle police department, is now In 'g- den making an effort to take the Japanese Jap-anese back to that city where be is alleged to be wanted on a charge of forgery Governor Charles R, Mabe) has honored the requisition of the State of Washington for th- return 'f Okata In order that he ma bo tried there on a felony charge It is said that okata Is willing to return there1 for trial. Okata Is declared to be wanted In many western states. Including Nevada, Neva-da, California, New Mexico and Wash-1 ington. In cities in these states ho ij said to have operated his swindling schemes arid left bad checks behind En Colorado Okata Is said hy detectives detec-tives to have posed as a former t'ali-fornla t'ali-fornla farmer who bad sold OU1 his ranch there Cor 132,000 He produced pro-duced paper in proof of his .story, and it is charged these papers were forged WAR M H li l l"ll;ali i taiA In lmvr simnlemented his narrative with an account of his ' W&r Service, declaring he had served overseas for nineteen months with : the Second division and was wounded wound-ed in the buttle of Belleau Wood !! exhibited a i.iAgil wound in his ' leg which caused him to walk with B limp. The Japanese was arrested here tw'o weeks ago and held for Investigation He is now in the city Jail w I ID IN in W BR DENVER, :olo . Jan. 8. A Japanese Japa-nese alleged to hae "put over" frauds I in cities from Derfer to the Pacific coast aggregaliiiR J.'JO.OOO was arrested arrest-ed Thursday in Ogden CJtah, and will be brought to this City at ouc h. ;ic- I cording to an announcement by rt'lJ limn s. Pitch, head of the William J- , Uurns detective agency in Denver. I The accused Oriental, Oeorge To-kata. To-kata. alias Ceorge; Sato, alias Okata, is declared by the Burns operatives I i to be one of the cleverest artists at the "bunco"' game who has been arrested : in some time. Tokata Is reported to, ! maintain his en Urn innocfini of Uncharges Un-charges against him. POSES s w K ill RO. Tokala posed, according to Kltch. as a former- Californii farmer who had sold oni bis ranch there for J'2.- ttiiti lie produced papers in proof 01 his story, and ll is charged that these papers were forged He supplemented his narrative with an account of his war sen Ice. declaring that he was overseas ov-erseas nineteen months with the Second Sec-ond division and was wounded In the iiattie of Belleau Wood. He showed !the detectives a i.igccii wound in bis; leg which causes hliu to walk with a limp. 'Ihe specific charge on which thej Burns operatives say that Tokala was arrested concerns a J2.000 dr-ul alleged to have been perpetrated on the Mc-Kiniey Mc-Kiniey county bank at pallup, N". m. Tokata it is charged, deposited fraudulent fraud-ulent security and obtained a note Whether he n-ultzed on this note, de-1 tectives said they bad not tear I HI ULED TO Ml ER. Tokaia remained only s daj in Denver, Den-ver, Stopping at a leading hotel but it was here that operatives foi the liurns agency picked up his trail ten days ago. When arrested, the Burns dctec-! charge. Tokata . a - ndeaoring to make a $25,000 deal in Ogdeo lie is alleged to have defrauded ' Seattle jeweler of 12,000 and to have obtained 2(0 in Klamath Falls, Ore., and also to have put over fraudulent' di-.-iN in Stockton. Cur. and Reno, N |