The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-31
General Manager Mum Is
Served With Papers
on a Speeding
Train.
SUSPECTS OFFICER,
BUT CAN'T ESCAPE
Misappropriation of S500,00
Is One Allegation; Nunn's
Friends Say Case Is
y Without Merit.

Two suits. involving the alleged misap
proximately half million dollars. by l.
L. Num-, general manager OF the Tellu-
ride Power company A s10.000.ooo Colo
rado corpora ton. with central offices in
Salt Lake City, and a demand for the
adjudication OF the title 10 property al
legged tc be worth $4,000 900 were filed
United States FOR the district OF Colo
| RADIO. The service of papers In both
cases obtained yesterday upon Cen
eral Manager Num- through the persis-
tent efforts OF a Cnncd States marshal
who boarded The same train on which
Num- left Salt Lake City. The officer
| waited until the train entered Colorado.
then virtually forced an entrance 10
Nunns stateroom and served the papers
which require him personally and the
representative OF the company TO answer
10 the charges made.
Thomas Clarke, deputy United States
marshal. served papers on tho general
manager oil the largest power company
In Utah while the train was speeding
through Colorado; Because service on
territory Clarke rode more than lO2 miles
with his quarry within his grasp before
lie acted.
Mum Suspects Trap,
! Clarke went to Cheyenne and boarded
on Nunn's berth throughout the night
and the next morning kept an eye on the
| man who emerged from 1t. Num- be-
| came suspicious OF Clarke and at Sidney.
Neb.. left the train. Clarke gathered up
his luggage and also left Num- saw he
couldn't give Clarke the slip and return
| stateroom and locked himself in. Clarke
| waited until the train entered Colorado
territory and tnen lie Knocked at the
s1ateToom door 50 loudly hyo, that al n N"nn
opened the door and Clarke served the
papers which were in the suit by L; h.
Steistmeyer for an accounting and
suit by H. j. Cummings and Louis Fusz
OF ST. Louis stockholders. charging mis-
appropriation OF over half a million OF
the company S FUNDS.
No interview could he obtained with
| Num-. who continued on his way cast,
but his friends say that he viii easily
show that the complaining stockholders
are laborins under many misapprehenrc
Sjons and are really striving by means of
litigation 20 gain Information as to the
company's affairs through series OF
years. They point out that the directors
generally have been In accord as 10 the
conduct OF the company's business.
The two cascs are set out at great
length In the bills III equity filed in the
federal court and present a complicated
condition OF affairs that bids fair tC
keep attorneys and judges busy for
months. perhaps years
Charge Vast Sum Misapplied.
The first suit. which is aimed primarily
at Mr.. Num- and which is brought by
Louis Fusz. Henry j. Cummings and
Constantine $. Cummings, all Of ST.
Louis old and prominent stockholders OF
the Telluride Power company, against
L., j.. Num- and The company. charges In
the bill that Mum. as manager of the
company has during the eighteen years
OF its Organization. misapplied and ap-
propriated 10 himself vast sums of
money amounting TO hundreds Of rhous-
ands OF dollars and demands an account
ing therefor. 1t is prayed that Num- be
required TO render an itemiZed statement
of all his dealings with the company TO
set forth the amounts received by him
for the defendant corporation and the
manner. time and place in which the
same were expended; thai preliminary
orders may he entered allowing The plain
tiffs and their attorneys to examine and
have free access TO the books. vouchers
and records of the defendant company,
Including the private accounts OF the said
Num- in so far as they relate to affairs
Of tho defendant company.
In closing the PRAYER asks that the
court award the defendants judgment for