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Show 'is arrested as a FUGITIVE FROM ' JUSTICE BROKER OF DENVER IS WANTED . IN SAN FRANCISCO. He Failed In Brokerage Business During Dur-ing Panic, and Is Charged With Embezzlement. Denver, March 3 W. A. Muir, formerly for-merly a broker of San Francisco, and . who failed lost October, was arrestod in this city last night as a fugitive from Justice upon word from the Coli-j Coli-j fornla authorities. ' Warrants wer sworn out in San Francisco against Muir on charges of embezzlement aggregating ag-gregating $10,000. Muir who has conducted con-ducted a brokerage busineee la this ' city for about a month, asserts dIb ar-j ar-j rest is due either to spite-work or the ignorance of some creditors. When i he was forced to suspend operations . in San Francisco, during the panic, said Muir, more than enough was out-standing out-standing to his credit to seoure all j obligations. On account or the tlnan-. tlnan-. clal depression, however, he was unable un-able to answer the demands of hla creditors. These accounts, however, , are being rapidly collected, he said. Muir win fight extradition. Son Francisco, March 3. The warrant war-rant on which Muir was arrested was Issued by Police Judge Waller of this ! city on complaint of John Auld, who alleged that on January 8. Muir embezzled em-bezzled from him 1,600 shares of mining min-ing stock. Muir, who formerly had offices here, announced bis suspension on October 9lh, last year. |