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Show Minr and Smelter Supply company a messenger, n.ier which "Charlen I) -, via," supposed to be one of the wo men under arrep.l, wont to the Mine pad Smelter company to draw the. money with ;i draft In I he form of f uother telegram, 'which read: 'Charles M, Davis, Salt Iako City. Message received. Draw through Mine nad Smelter Supply , company one hundred dollars. Check mailed i I uratolTb. (Signed) American Smelting Smelt-ing and Refining company." . Through another similar telegram II) 0 two men are alleged to have attempted at-tempted to defraud the Utah Idaho .Sugar company out of $"0. This waa done by attempting to draw through Ceorge A. Smlih of the company that xum. on a telegram reading: "Charles Is. Grass Creek: See Marchent . regarding pumps, if necessary draw J through George A. Smith of Utah-IJaho Utah-IJaho Sugar company fifty dollars, t Signed) E. S. Rolapp." Upon the presentation of the check the officials of the" sugar company became suspicions and decided to communicate with Mr. Rolapp. who l the business associate of David Etdes at Ogden, whereupon tho men van out of the office' When arrested, the men confessed to writing the telegrams aud the stealing of the Western Union blanks N'o specific charge was preforrel against them Tuesday. CLEVER WORK OF DETECTIVES IN ZION i '. Salt Iike. Aug. 17. Detectives i7;irl Ripley and H. J. Curran did a clever piece of detective work Tuesday Tues-day afternoon when they arrested E. Wilson and N. P. Mnclephle at tho comer of Second South and West Tcmplo streets upon descriptions ltirnished by the Mine ami Smelter Supply compan The two men, who I gave their ayes as 37 aDd 2U ears, j icspectively, are charged with at- I tempting to defraud tho Mine and j iSmelter company out of a sum of i Money, and they have partially con-.tesaoil con-.tesaoil to being guilty of the charges. Obtaining some Western Union tel j cgraph blanks, the two men proceed- i ,cd to write fictitious telegrams. A telegram reading "Mine and Smelter Supply Co. Honor draft of Charles Davis for one hundred dollars. (Signed) American Smelting and Refining Re-fining company," was sent to th.. |