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Show LAND AGENT HAS . LEfT THE CITY E .Hensley Disappears After a Wyoming Sheriff Secures Requisition Papers Also the Man Smith Crooked Deal is Said to Con-ccrn Con-ccrn Ogden Owners of Lots in Washington. i The lllght of E. Henslpy. the land agent who was under bond to appear before the municipal court this morning morn-ing and face pxtraditfon to Wyoming, is likely to present a number of legal le-gal tangles ond 1h causing the police conslderahle worry. Hensley has made Opden his headquarters head-quarters for Beveral months as a representative rep-resentative of the Great Western Ivind & Townslte company and had sold lots to a gTent number of 0?den people. peo-ple. The agent apeared lo le a bright, capable and clean business man and during his stay here he made many friends, who are still loath to believe that his business was a crook-ed crook-ed one. Tho lots offered for sale-were sale-were claimed to he located in the town of Trinidad. Washington, on the Columbia Co-lumbia river, and were eold at a very low figure. When the complaint reached this city from the Evansion sheilff. which caused the arrest of Hensley, the land man secured the services of Attorney J. C, DavlB and through tho office of the county attorney a bond of $ir0 was arranged. This bond was signed by A. H. IJlack and Roy Shumway and Hanaley was given' hi. liberty. This took place on thp llfth of tula month and the land man stayed in this city until last Saturday when he mysteriously disappeared. It ii said that Hensley waited until un-til ho learned that the extradition papers had been signed by Governor Spry and that when this action of the Utah executive became known to him lie left the city in company with an attorney of the Spokane land company. com-pany. At tho -ollce station this morning th,. Wyoming sheriff displayed a letter let-ter written him by the sheriff of Spo, kane. Sheriff .Tones stated that after receiving tho complaint against Hensley Hens-ley from the Cokevlllo hotel man, he wrote to th' authorities at Spokane j to Investigate the land company which Hensley rpprbentcd The letter I which he carried with him was a re- i ply to this Inquiry. The letter speaks of Hensley ao a bunco man and states that tho man )y the name of Smith, who was In Ogden as a partner ot Hensley, Is a scoundrel, wanted by the police of Washington This letter was shown t tho governor when the I officer visited the executive Friday to secure tho nece.-sary papers to take Hensley back to Wyoming. With the departure of the land man, the local authorities began an Investigation Investi-gation of the bond and the possibility of collecting tho money. Attorney Davis states that the bond money will not be paid by th bondsmen because Hensley was not a fugitive from justice jus-tice at the time the bond was deposited de-posited and that the bond, therefore, was not n lgni one. Neither of tho bondsmen were required to qualify, when they affixed their names to the bond and it is contended that, even If tho 'bond is proven to be a perfectly perfect-ly legal one, th authorities will still be unable to collect the money which it ostensibly represents. |