Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-12-01 | Page 8 | Ex-General Faces Treason Charge

00 EX-GENERAL FACES TREASON CHARGE LOS ANGELES, Dec, 1. Salvadore I I. Yokoyama. said to be a former, I .major general in the army of Presl-j Presl-j dent Carranza of Mexico, today lay I In prison at Tijuana to await action I of the Mexican government on a sen-' tence of death passed against him EHH years ago on a chargo of treason Yokoyama was taken from John Ous-by. Ous-by. a special officer employed bv tho Ij ' .district attorney of Lo.s Angles coun- I ty as Ousby attempted to cross the International boundary with his pris- oner en route from Ensanada to Los ; Angeles. Yokoyama was wanted here j to answer grand jury indictments j charging embezzlement. obtalnlng j money under false pretenses, grand larceny and violation of the California Califor-nia corporate securities act. All these charges were filed airalnst I tho ex-general as the result of purported pur-ported operations in the sale of stock of n Mexican corporation called the jCompanio Mimra Los Tejanes Socio-dad Socio-dad Anonetno a mining concession. I Tli v indictments re, lied that Yoko-jyuma Yoko-jyuma sold about a quarter 0f a million mil-lion dollars' worth of stock to his countrymen here who readily were . induced to Invest because of his reputation.