Weekly journal-miner., 1918-04-17
(From Saturdays Daily)

(From Saturdays Daily)
 \. E. Frame, the late promoter and manager of the Jerome Portland Copper Company, and who last De- cember fled from the State after shut ting down the property, was placed under arrest in Portland, Ore, this week on two criminal charges, ac- cording to word received in Prescott last night.
 The arrest was made at the in> stance of the Navapai county authori- tics, who are very much desirous of obtaining the presence of Mir. Frame Ierc to answer charges of embeZzle- mcnt, perjury and contempt of court Sheriff Joe Young left for Phoenix carly this morning to complete the work of getting out the acquisition papers. and he and Assistant County Attorney Ling will in all probability go to the Oregon city in few days to bring the man back to Prescott. \ further charge of contempt of court will in all probability be lodged against Frame in event the officers succeed in getting him back to Ari- zOna
 Frame, according to the state inents made by officers last night, has the character of Gct-Rich-Quick Wallingford looking like a pikcr when it comes to painleSsly extract ing the dough from the unsuspecting public, but like most of the smooth boys, he apparently left quite a few loop holes in his program which, the officers say, will be sufficiently cOm- prchcnsivc to allow the man to be brought to trial here on at least two serious charges.
 The charge of perjury which has been lodged against Frame grew out of his appearance before the Arizona 1 Corporation Commission in March, 1917. while the Jerome Portland Cop per Company was in its formative stages. In order to get the permis- 1 sion from the commission to sell stock, Frame had to show that certain part of the company'S pro i motion stock was held in pool, and upon his representations that such was the case, the permit was issued. ] The pooled stock was supposed to be rcposing in the vaults of the Jerome branch of the Bank of Arizona. Sew
 cral weeks, ago, following the is- suancc of an order cancelling Frames title to several thousand shares of this stock, the receiver of the Jerome i Portland, Frank H. Dyer. discovered [ that the envelopes which were in the bank vaults contained merely num- Der of blank envelopes instead of the . certificates. It was then that the per
 jury charge was sworn to by the re- ccivcr.
 i At the time of Frames sudden dc
 parturc from the Jerome district last ! December, he carried off the com pany's safe and its contents, and It was not until very accurate account ing of the firms finances was made that it was discovered that the crst- while manager had through careless ness or otherwise, gone south with some of the funds which according to Hoylc should have been left be-
 hind. Hence the embezzlement
 charge. It is charged that Frame cmbczzlcd over S4,0O0 but the spcci-
 ic charge against him Is of illegally
 Iilching $l,250.
 Judge Lyman of the Maricopa
 Superior court who several weeks
 ago rendered decision cancclling
 Frames title to something like 45O,- GOO shares of the stock of the organ
 ization, has grievance against the
 man in view of the fact that the latter disposed of a number of blocks
 of the stock in question after the
 courts injunction had been issued re-
 straining Frame from having any thing more to do with the shares. X large number of the phoncy certiil-
 cates have been turning up lately. and it iNquitc evident that Frame made the sales upon the false represents ton to the purchasers that he I tFramc) still owned the stock which
 was being sold by him. Therefore, Judge Lyman, iS likely to do things Ito Frame on d charge oi contempt oi
 court, when he gets in this jurlsdlc- , ton again.
 ;. Frame it Is said, has already started haLcas corpus proceedings st Port , land in an effort to get ont ot JaIl and out Ui the reach oi the Arizona