Arizona republican., 1910-05-07
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 WITH MAILS The Arrest Yesterday of (. 5. Tyner For Montana Crime SAYS HE WAS \ "GoA1''
And Not a Criminal But the Designing Victim of Boy hood Friend Who is Now in Custody Join tly Charged

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 G. $. Tyner an employe of the H. H. McNeil company was arrested yes terday by Deputy United States Mar shal Bernhard Anderson on the charge | of using the United States mails to de- l fraud The complaint sworn to by the | officer. vas based on an indictment returned sometime ago by the United States grand jury at Billings, Mont The papers in the case were received within this jurisdiction day or two ago. United States Attorney Morrison win arrive in the city thist morning with the original indictment and Ty- ner will be taken before United States Commissioner Johnstone. Tyner says he will not resist his removal to Mon tana.
 He is charged in connection with one Samuel Gray of the misuse of the
 mails to defraud the wholesale firm of Tibbs Hutchings & Co. of St Paul,
 Minn.
  letter to the clothing firm. saying that Tyner was the proprietor of the Mod el Store" at Red Lodge. Mont. and
 that he and Gray had bought the stock at Red Lodge of Herbert C. Harris. who also owned store at Billings. It
 was stated that they had paid Harris s65s0 for the stock Harris had pre- viously ordered goods from Tibbs Hutchings X Co. for the Red Lodge store and the object of the letter vas to secure the shipment which had beer, ordered by Harris. The goods were
 sent At the time of the writing ot this letter, it is stated in the com plaint. the defendant had not paid more than s1200 for the goods pur- chased of Harris.
 subsequent misuse of the mails was the sending of statement of the financial condition of the Model Store" to Tibbs Hutchings & Co. In this it was repeated that the value of the stock on hand was SG5S0: that there was cash on hand to the amount of $270 and that the stock was insured for 5000.
 This letter writing took place early in March of 1908.
 The complaint is not specific as to the extent of the financial misfor- tunes of Tibbs Hutchings & Co. but they probably lost in the neighborhood Of S40O0 for, according to the first letter written the firm, Tyner and Gray desired to bring their stock up to about sl0.OO0 and they expected to carry permanently a stock of that value.
 Tibbs Hutchings X Co. subsequently reported the matter to the Credit Mems association and the association. to the postal authorities v.ho have been looking forsthe men ever since.
 The local authorities were first ap- prised of the presence in Phoenix of Tyner last Saturday. He was then put under surveillance by Deputy Marshal Anderson who did not receive blank copy of the complaint until yesterday.
 He found Tyner at work as a paper ruler for the H. H. McNeil company Tyner did not express great surprise. He said that he had committed no crime; that he only had the misfortune of being a goat
 Tyner said he had been working in the south and had saved little money 1 and more than two years ago Gray | induced him to go to Montana and en- gage in business. He says he had no l knowledge of any crooked transaction ! but time came when he found his ! money gone and himself a fugitive l from justice. He had also lost valu- | able mining stock which he had put l up as collateral. . Tyner who is a man of good address came to Phoenix about two months | ago. He was at Bisbee where Mir. McNeil heard of him and being In | need of an expert wired for him to | come to Phoenix. In reply Tyner wired | for transportation for himself and | wife. It was sent. but Tyner instead | of bringing wife with him brought a | young man with whom he had been | travelling about the country, acting in | the capacity of meal ticket" for his | companion.
 He had not been here long until it came to the notice of Mir McNeil that | there was a ticket at the S. P. office l for G. s. Tyner, from Phoenix to Tam pa, Fla. As he was still in debt to the | firm, Mir. McNeil asked him about the l ticket Tyner replied that he knew nothing of it. He had not sent for a l ticket and he had not recently heard l from Tampa which had been his home. | MT. McNeil learned the same day that a man who said he was G. s. Tyner had signed for the ticket and had talk 'en' it. Again Mir. McNeil called on him and warned him that he could not get out of town Tyner stilI denied knowI- etlee of the ticket and further fnyestf-