The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-11-10
GETS FUNDS ON
ANOTHER'S NAME
Bogus Paul Deertenbach
Makes Trouble.
LETTER OF CREDIT STOLEN
ARMED WITH THIS, CRATER rs
ON PROFITABLE TOUR.

Two Germans bearing the name Paul
Doertenbach have been enlivening the
dull election season in some of the
hotels in Salt Lake and other cities in
the west Nov. the first and spuri-
Gus Paul Doertenbach entered the
Wilson hotel and inscribed the name
upon its register He came in bearing
a suit case and apparently badly
winded, as though he had just finished
a long and fatiguing walk. Dropping
the grip on the marble floor, he hur-
riedly wrote Paul Doertenbach'' in
the book and then rushed out of the Of
fee and onto the street. After an
absence of twenty minutes or half an
hour he returned. His step was slow
and faitering. like a coy maiden APP
preaching her lover. In halting and
disJOinted sentences he conveyed the
information TO Chief Clerk Mel Wright
that he was without funds, owing to
the fact that the banks were closed for
the day.
2 But 1 hat here one letter OF credit,
and l would ask you that you me adj
vance SIS until tomorrow" exclaimed
the supposed Paul Doertenbach. Clerk
Wright looked at the letter of credit
and saw that it was good for many
times the SIS, yet he did not feel like
plunging that strong on his guest. IN
stead of advancing SIS and taking the
letter of credit as security, ne loaned
that individual $50 and assigned him TO
room. The suit case was taken. to the
room. and that was the last Wright
saw of the alleged Doertenbach The
third evening he caused the room to
be looked into by the head porter, who
THa~N1
appeared.
Trapped in Denver.
Seeing that he was out $40, Clerk
Wright wrote letters to various and
sundry western hotels, giving
description of the alleged Doertenbach
He heard nothing more concerning him
until yesterday when he got a letter
from Clerk Ray Reppiteau of the
Adams house. Denver. The letter said
that the supposed Paul Doertenbach
came TO the Adams house last Saturday
and registered. After he had been
there. one day Clerk Wright's letter was
received. That evening he flashed the
letter of credit on Mr.. Reppiteau and
demanded that he advance him $50 on
it. Mr.. Reppiteau refused. whereupOn
he became indignant and declared that
he would see the German consul and
get him to make an international ques-
ton of the slight that had been put
upon him. At this juncture he was in
formed that he could pay the $3.50 he
owed the hotel and the $3.50 he owed
the Wilson IN Salt Lake and get out
of the house, otherwise he would be
arrested and locked up. After brief
period of reflection he decided 10 pay,
which he did. He then left the house
and It is supposed he got out of the city
that sumo evening.
Real Dortenbach Arrives.
Tuesday another German tourist
came to the city. He went TO the
| Knutsford and registered as Paul
DOertenbach. Upon being questioned
he asserted that be was the original
and only genuine and told the story Of
his troubles to Clerk Wesley Austin
and others. He eaid that recently
while a guest at the Angelus hotel in
Los Angeles. his room was entered by
a thief who took all his effects except
his Overcoat. III his grip or suit case
was his letter Of credit. his passport.
his railway and steamship transporta-
ton and the list Of hotels at which he
( proposed to stop on his way back from
the Pacific coast TO Germany. A short
time before the theft at Los Angeles.
guests of the Hotel Del Monte at
Monterey, Cal, met with like exper-
/ fence He is Of the opinion that the
: man who victimized the Wilson hotel
I either committed these thefts or was as
/ sOciated with some one who did COM
/ NIT them, as he can account for the
| bogus Paul Doertenbach having his
| letter of credit I'm no other way. The
! police of several cities are now on the
watch for the impostor.