LOOKED LIKE MINSTREL MAN.
Lampblack Was Ineffective Disguise
for Elmer Gray.
When Elmer Gray of Salina, Kas., was arrested yesterday afternoon by Captain Patrick Bray at 2817 Nicholson avenue on a warrant sworn out by officers from his home town, his face was disguised with a thick coat of lamp black and he would have been mistaken for a negro under ordinary circumstances. He denied his identity at first, but when he was confronted by S. P. Heck, sheriff of Saline county, Kas., he admitted that he was wearing the lampblack to prevent recognition.
He is wanted in Salina, according to the sheriff, on a charge of dismantling a steel bridge under construction near Salina and selling the steel to a junk man. Gray and the sheriff left for Salina last night.
