Show alfred H nelson said to have left the town HE AND HIS HAVE GONE nelson Is accused of getting away with of the lokden and association funds whither he abs gone no man A warrant Is his arrest alfred II 11 nelson is a fugitive from from the officers of the law yesterday morning he left the town for parts not known leaving behind the ogden building and sabinaa association to mourn his departure to at least the tune of a sum which he is charged with embezzling bezz ling from tho association while acting as the managing secretary thereof A short time ago it was suspected that the accounts of alio association were wrong and so an investigation of the books was commenced some one of the directors of the society without thinking what ho was doing told nelson of the investigation that was enough for him ho at once basan preparations pa rations for leaving town ho sold bis furniture to forbes the second hand dealer bought his wife a ticket for some point east sent his son out of town on the family carriage horse at least such was the rumor on the streets last night during the day it developed in the investigation vesti gation of the accounts eliat the sum abaye mentioned was missing 0 W II president of the building and saving association at once swore to a complaint charging cha nelson with embezzlement and a warrent for the batters arrest was placed in alie hands of deputa united states marshal exum up to a lato hour last night nothing had been heard of nelson although marshal exum biad telegraphed the whole intermountain country over where railroads run however at 12 midnight lie re cleved a dispatch from north platte neb mayine that mrs nelson was on a union pacific train going east A II 11 nelson has been in ogden for many years he has been the business interests of the city in various ways but chiefly in the insurance and real estate business he has been a very prominent man in this community highly respected and at one time was a man of considerable means he was a most affable man in his manner and intercourse and his dealings heretofore leave been of such a nature as to have established him in the strongholds of the peoples confidence that a man of his years business knowledge and public and social egand ing should have come to grief as an embezzler seems past comprehension whether or not his insurance and real estate business is all right ia not now known mrs nelson has been prominent in social and church circles having for long time been a member of the presbyterian choir she is a lady of much culture and possessed of a splendid voice she has therefore been popular in society and in much demand on account of her vocal abilities just how this embezzlement of hie building and savings associations funds will affect that organization cannot be stated at the present time neither could it bo learned last aa to who and how good bondsmen nelson bad or whether or not his bondsmen had been released since ho went out of office last june in the advent of the association not beine able to recover the lost money the burden will fall heaviest on poor people who have been saving up their hard earnings little bv litt lewith the view of by and by building a home for themselves for hardworking hard working honest folks to be made alio victims of misplaced confidence ia which carries with it an amount oi sorrow and suffering that even alio apprehension and punishment of the one guilty of the crime of robbing then is no recompense to the unfortunate victims themselves |