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Show MYERS TO BE BROUGHT BACK TALLAHASSEE, Fla May 20 In refusing to grant tho release on habeas corpus proceedings i f .1 ! Myers, alleged al-leged to be Milton D. Joseph, charged With embezzlement from a Salt Lake bank several years ago. the Florida supreme court yesterday upheld the Judgment of the circuit court of Dad county Myers has been fighting his extradition to l'tah ever since an order or-der granting it was Issued several months ago by Qovernor Hurdee. SALT LAKE. May 20 When informed in-formed early this morning of the action ac-tion of the Florida court tho case of J. D. Myors, alias Joseph Sheriff C Frank Emery said this morning early that he would send an officer for Myers as aoon as It was possible. He had been Informed by tho governor gov-ernor of that state that the court hearing would bo held May 1 and was advised not to send an officer until a decision was reached. Chief Criminal Deputy Sheriff Herbert Her-bert Lelchter and Joseph Orut, cashier of the Continental National bank, the Institution which Joseph or Myers, Is alleged to havo defrauded, went to Miami when Joseph was first arrested. When tho prisoner refused to return to Salt Lake without opposition, the officer and bank official returned to wait the action of tho courts. Joseph Is accused of the theft of thousands of dollars in a stock transaction. trans-action. 00 |