The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-07-07
San Francisco Publisher VINO
Figured in Elopement With
Ogden Belle Again in
the Limelight.
BROTHER ALSO SOUGHT
Men Are Alleged 10 Have En-
bezzled Jewels and Used
Mails With Intent to
Defraud.
Special to The Tribune.

wheeler Reid, who in mid April
came into the public eye in Og-
den and salt Lake City through
his elopement with Miss Olive Lillian
Packard, daughter OF Frederick Pack.
ard, pipe line inspector of the Utah
Light & Railway company at Ogden.
now has more than matrimonial
troubles on his hands.
Warrants were issued TODAY for the
arrest of Leslie Wheeler. Reid and his
brother, Charles Reid, charging felony
-embezzlement-and the postal author
ltles are Investigating complaints that
the brothers have been guilty of using
the mails TO defraud.
The ease is complicated one, aud
OWING to the secrecy of the movements
lately made by the accused men. is
shrouded In mystery that seems TO
BATTLE the Officers.
Publishers of Paper.
Wheeler Reid and his brother
Charles, under the name of the
Wheeler Reid Publishing company have
been publishing HThe San Francisco
Tatt]er.' Both departed from San Fran.
cisco few days ago. leaving no word
as to their intended destination, or as
to where such mail as came for them
should be forwarded. Complaints were
made to the postoffice authorities by
many persons who alleged that they
had engaged in boosting the circulation
of the Tattier, under promise Of re.
ceiving trip TO Honolulu for their
labor, and the complainants asserted
that none Of the promises, said to have
been made in writing through the
mails, bad ever been fulfilled. This
started the governments S side of the
investigation.
Embezzlement Charges.
Also, and almost simultaneously,
came into the case Mrs w. b. Swears
of the Forest Jcwelry company of San
Francisco. She alleges that the Reid
brothers posed before her rs expert
iewelry statesmen, and that she believed
their statements far enough to trust
them with about $4,000 worth of iia-
monds and other jewels, turned over
to them ''on memorandum. which, in
the parlance of the trade, signifies
that when the sale is made and the
money turned over to the owner, the
seller shall receive stipulated com
mission.
Now. Mrs. Swears alleges that the
chief customers for the gems she
entrusted to the men in whom she
placed confidence, were pawnbrokers,
who make business of dealing in din
mouds. A specific charge against
Charles Reid is that Of obtaining un-
lawfully diamonds TO the value OF
$3.50, and the complaint against Leslie
Wheeler Reid charges that on March
Of this year he unlawfully secured
diamond valued at $3.50.
Rumored Location.
There is persistent rlrnor here that
Charles Reid is in New York posing as
she heir to an estate valued at $1,000
100. and that he has made a lavish dis
,lay of diamonds during his posing.
-So4io Nu0ChSf-IfSlu % oSAS'So W.
n Los Angeles, but has not been dell
,itely located. Such employees as re-
main at the Tattler Office win express
lothing but absolute ignorance as TO
he whereabouts Of tho Reids.
The romantic side of the career of
Wheeler Reid, which brought hs name
nto public notice in Ogden and Salt
salt City, dates back to about the first
e the year. Reid met Miss Packard of
ogden in New York while she was
hero studying art. AT that time she
vas said to be betrothed to wealthy
,an Of Salt Lake City, whose name
AZ not been divulged. Wheeler, It Is
aid became infatuated with the benu-
iful young woman, persuaded her to
40 San Francisco before marrying,
nd on April II the parents Of Miss
'ackard received a telegram announc'
10 her marriage to Wheeler-Reid.
flowed In Society.
Wheeler came to San Francisco
bout oae year ago His father is
obert NJ. Wheeler of Chicago, but
hen q boy he was adopted by an
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