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Show MYERS STILL IN i JAIL AT MIAMI I After Viewing "Rogue Gal-1 Gal-1 lery" Picture, Friends Decline De-cline to Furnish Bonds mia.mi. Pla . March 7. Joseph D. Myers, behoved to bo Milton D. Joseph and arrested here on a fugitive tvar-i tvar-i rarit for Salt Lake officials on t he (charge of embezzling approximately $64 000 from the Continental National bank of Salt Lake Is still in Jail despite two attempt-: to free him on habeas corpus proceedings. His at-torneya at-torneya have announced 'bat they would make a third attempt but have refused to say what it will be. BRIEF SUCCESS Tho first attempt to free MyrCB was made Saturday night, when habeas corpus proceedings were instituted before be-fore Judi;e )! Pierre Hrannlng of the circuit court. Judge Branhlng ordered order-ed the man released, but as he walked from tho courtroom he was Immediately Immed-iately rearrested by Sheriff l.ouis A. Allen on another warrant charging him with unlawfully taking securities iiiiun mr an iai;i- iianK. .'in. nc was taken bark to his roll In the county jail. Sunfay afternoon attorneys for Myers started another habeas corpus proceeding before Judge Branhlng but m this the judge refused to grain the man his liberty, but held that ho could to admitted to bond of $rooo but When by late afternoon todav none of the friends of Myers, who has been prominent In real estate circles heft, had consented to iro on bis bond, thf .attorneys said thev would try a different tad- tn pi thHr man out before it Salt Lake deputy sheriff arrives. ar-rives. DECLINE TO r:isK MOXEY Man-.- of Myers fprmor friends have called at the sheriff's office to. see tho oh olographs of Joseph, and after seo-iiig seo-iiig the photographs they seem reluctant reluc-tant to r!k 15,000 by going surotj for M yers I have no statement to make other than that 1 am the wrong man " Myers said this afCernooh to a newspaper correspondent. "My name g Myrs anrl not Joseph and I have gone under the name of Myers nil my life. T have lived here eight years and everybody here knows mo a Myers. Ask Jim Oilman president presi-dent of tho Punk of Pay Glscayne." Myers said that he operated a char-tor char-tor boat. The Traveler, before the war, when he enlisted, and after his promotion pro-motion to ensign was put in com mand oi a mil marine chaser. He said he belongs to the Mason and Blk lodges. A C. Graw. editor of the Kn-terprjise Kn-terprjise at Homestead this count v. told County Solicitor Fred W. Pine todav thai he m.r Myers ..n a train coming In Florida in October but that Myers did no: say where he had been ITU I! Mi EGGS" Because of the number of desperate characters In the county jnll four snor-lal deputy -heriffs cro on gward there tonight, each armed with re. peatlr.g lifbs and shotguns. Included In the 1J0 men In the Jail are five charged with murder one of these being be-ing Edgar Frady of Chicago, who a week ago Sunday shot a ml killed bis wife, the Bister of John P. Thompson millionaire head of a strine of short order restaurants in thr- middle wect. |