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Show MILTON JOSEPH FOUB HILT! Salt Lake Broker Convicted By Jury of Grand Larceny Lar-ceny Charge SALT LAKE. Pec. 18. Milton D. Joseph, charged with the theft of $54,000 In Utah Copper stock certificates certifi-cates fro mthe Continental National cates from the Continental National rulity in Judge Kphraim Hanson's I court today by the jury of grand larceny lar-ceny by trick and artifice. Conviction on a charge of grand larceny by t rick and artifice calls for I a sentence of not less than one year i ond not more than ten years ! Mr. Rogers for the prosecution and : i nomas uamage ror tue aerense ?on-I ?on-I eluded their arguments yesterday afternoon, Mr Ramage asserted that I his client could not be convicted of a criminal charge, contending that the I $64,000 tak.-n by Joseph was In the mitur of a debl rind therefore a SUb-Iject SUb-Iject for a civil suit Judge Hanson I summed up this morning and tho Jurv j retired, being about for 60 minutes in which it wa.i reported that four I ballots were taken. j Joseph was unmoved as the verdict I was render. (J lie was remanded to , Ih- eu.sr,,dy of tho sheriff. It is under- stood that sentence will be passed next Saturday. Aa he was led away by Deputy j Sheriff Henry Emery he made no comment In contrast to when bo was originally arraigned hre when he was i greeted by old friends there waa ap- parently no one present of his circle' of acquaintances this morning. The history of tho case concerns th furl ihnt In 1914 Joseph pr' vailed upon th bank to allow hini to have C) H i In I'tah Coppor tocU. IIo Is said to have remarked that :h noon as he Bold tho stock h" would return the proceeds to tho bank. Instead of so' di In . be sold th- .sft-urltlos and van-j I hi d. rlefrau'JIntr the bank out of about $54,000. Joseph's disappearance waa a mat- ter of K'nr;l diwus.slon for a con- Slderable tlrno with Information beln? received from time to time that the mnn had been seen in different cities Gradually th.-se report died and It seemed as it the affnir was to hP relegated rele-gated to th- archives of unsolved crimes, or rather failure to punish ih criminal, when about a year aisw a : rominent citizen recognized Josepb riami, Fia Then bt-pran the law's machinery to bring Joseph back hero for trial When arrested he stoutiv denied that he was Joseph and openl declared that he was j r Myers, a roai 09tato broker. H foucht extradition bark to Utah practically to the lost ditch, but eventually realizing the hopi . nf-i :: th.- situation Wsjflu Mhnndoned further battlelS "-k It was not uaU ;'. :i'-h' .1 tv-.n T.ake that hel that h' was Joseph. At th.'- time ho was yM Miami ll H'.ii dls.-losed thsfl .1 r. :,n officer In - '' i - l-e .luring fVip. had many friends In U they assisted him in 1 ngainst extradition. "Whehj M.i-, r icht apo he Igr "ho ti: ! , -.Lion in Salt LS' Is i.nderiitood that a motlo mad.- for a new trial lj taken to ti.. supreme courts' oo J |