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Show mm is IB JAIL Salt Lake. Dec. 9. C. B. Anderson, former superintendent of the county infirmary, who was arrested at Raymond, Ray-mond, Alberta province, Canada, on charges of graft in connection with the installation ot the voting machines ma-chines during the last election and other irregularities while In charge of the infirmary, was brought back to Salt Lake last night by Chief Deputy Dep-uty Sheriff J. Parley White. Anderson has lost about SO pounds In weight since be fled into the provinces prov-inces of the dominion government about two weeks ago. Immediately after his arrival at the county jail Anderson was visited by Mrs. Anderson. The scene was pathetic. pa-thetic. Mrs. Anderson found difficulty difficul-ty in clearly establishing within her mind that her husband was actually In jail and she pleaded for his release. re-lease. Says He Is III. Anderson claims he is suffering from abdominal troubles, which, he says, began to affect him last May. On election day he Informed Dr. T. G. Odell that he had contrac'-d ptomaine pto-maine poisoning through shi..ip salad. sal-ad. Dr. Odell claims that it would have been impossible for this disease dis-ease to have remained In his system sys-tem long enough to be responsible for tho delay at Uutte. Mont , Wednesday night. In which Chief Deputy White found it necessar to summon surgeons. sur-geons. On the other hand, it is the belief of Dr. Odell, who carefully examined bis condition last night that abdominal abdom-inal pains wore brought abaut by worry, which has had a tilling effect ef-fect upon the physical condition of the prisoner. However, Dr. Odell advised, after he had left the patient at the county Jail last night, to give him a da or two to regain a normal pulse action before putting him through the rigorous rigor-ous tests of an examination. It is the free admission of Anderson Ander-son that he lied Into Canada when it dawned upon him that lie was faciug trouble. He says he did not exactly know where he was going, but simply sim-ply went in an effort to get out of the reach of the law. He claims That he left Salt Lake when the situation had begun to look gloomy for him, with the intention of visiting his sister sis-ter at Coalville. In Ogden tbe fear of either having b' en found out or the impending danger dan-ger of being fiund out caused him to buy a railroad ticket tor Raymond, where he thought he would meet friends When he stepped Into ihe little settlement set-tlement of Alberta province he was surprised to be cod fronted by George Uudd, a former Sait Lake newspaper man. According to the story told Deputy White bv Fiudd. Anderson was I unable to explain his presence in that part of Canada, and Budd's questions j irritated him. He had been in Raymond Ray-mond less than two hours when the marshal of that village Informed hirn through advices furnished by Sheriff Sher-iff Sharp that he was wanted back lu Salt Lake on graft charges. do |