"GO ON THE LAND."
YOUNG MAN'S ATTEMPT. By Electric telegraph —Copyright Times and Sydney Sun Services. Vancouver, May 4. George Bartlett, a youth just, out of his teens,* is in gaol at Spokane awaiting arraignment before the Federal Court on a charge of having misused the mails in" an attempt to obtain l,ooodol. from August Poulsen, a millionaire mine owner. Bartlett's arrest was sudden. Acting under his instructions, a messen-ger-boy called at the millionaire's home, and was given a package which was believed to contain l,ooodol. Quite ignorant that his movements were being shadowed by defectives, the messenger" made his way bade fco Bartlett, and had just handed him the package when the plain-clothes officers came up and collared their man. * Bartlett is said to have confessed that he threatened Poulsen by means of letters, in order tp obtain sufficient money with which to buy a homestead in Canada.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 18, 13 May 1914, Page 8
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149"GO ON THE LAND." Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 18, 13 May 1914, Page 8
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