Arizona republican., 1912-10-07
MADE BAD USE
 IF THE MAILS
United States M ars h a l From Los Angeles Brings an Inventor to the United States Court of This Dis trict

United States Marshal Diagle of the southern district of California arrived in the city yesterday with w. L. Bassoli, charged with using the mails to defraud He was brought here on an order of removal from the southern district of California The order was made last summer but as there would be no grand jury here until today, Bassoli who knew nothing about the climate of Phoe- nix except what he had read in un- truthful papers, begged to be allowed to swelter in Los Angeles rather than to come to this city before his presence was actually required
 Bassoli is the inventor of a pipe wrench for the manufacture and sale of which he and others had been or ganizing company and selling stock. A great deal of it was sold to Italian residents of this vicinity and more. about Bisbee. Globe and other towns in the southern part of the state. It is claimed that while the invention of Bassoli is probably a good one, claims were made in. the literature sent out that were not sus- tained by the facts
 MT Diegle returned to Los Angeles last night Tonight he will start for Tacoma. Wash, with young Earl Stannard, the Pomona bank book keeper whose peculations last fall amounting to $152 000 constituted front page matter in the Los Ange les papers for days. Stannard was recently sentenced to a long term in the federal penitentiary at Tacoma.
 How it was possible for a book keeper. little more than a boy work ing on a salary which would not support himself and his expensive wife, could steal such an amount of money has never been satisfactOr fly explained.
 The stealing had been going on for months Stannard and his young wife were living in a style that the president of the bank could hardly have maintained without exciting the suspicious of the depositors. Princely sums were paid for Boston bull ter riers of which Mrs. Stannard was fancier. Their home was elaborate and richly furnished. Stannard was known to be a heavy investor in oil lands All this display by a book keeper on $75 a month was made openly.
 Then came the blow up No ener- getic measures were taken for the apprehension of Stannard and his wife who had both disappeared, but for some time, as it was afterward learned. they did not leave California. Later they made their way east and so fearful had they become of de- lection that shortly before they de- cided to return to California they made a trip in a box ear from Grand Island. Neb., to St. Joseph, Mo.
 Tn the meantime, negotiations were going on with the relatives of Stan nard for his return, restitution and immunity An agreement was reach ed and the young man returned. But there was one thing that had been strangely overlooked by all the parties and that was that it was a national bank whose funds Stannard had abstracted The United States government never compromises with thieves and Stannard was indicted on six counts, tried and convicted on one. The others are pending.
 MT. Diegle said last night that he | had never visited a town which had made such an impression on him as i Phoenix. He regretted that he hao
 so little time to spend here. He was here fourteen years ago but he founo 1 little yesterday that he remembered | having seen them.