Ogden Daily Standard | 1910-01-27 | Page 6 | Ticket Agent in Nevada Confesses to Stealing

TICKET AGENT III NEVADA CONFESSES TO STEALING Chief Special Agent Joseph Jone3 of the Oregon Short Line has returned from Sacramento, where ne arrested Arthur Sullivan, who has confessed tj stealing tickets from the railroad company, com-pany, and who has been at large blncc last August. Sullivan was night ticket apent at Winncmucca on the Salt Lake division divi-sion of the Southern Pacific railroad, until August, when ho left Soon after f ight Interlined tickets, good anywhere In tho country, and two $f0 scrip books were found mUslng The scrip was discovered to have beeu used, but the identification slips were signed bv C. S. Baker. A comparison of the handwriting on the slips with that of the rorraer ticket tick-et agent led to the man's arrest and confession at Sacramento. He was arrested on the charge of embezzlement embezzle-ment and taken to Wlnnemucca, where his trial will be held tedar.