LETTERS TO RICH MEN
COST HIM LIBERTY.
THADDEUS WILSON GOES TO
JAIL FOR DEMANDING MONEY.
Must Face Charge in Federal Court
Today -- Young Man's Father
Pleads in Vain for
Son's Release.
A father's eloquent pleading and an aunt's tears availed nothing yesterday morning when Thaddeus S. Wilson was arraigned before John M. Nuckols, United States commissioner on the charge of sending letters with fraudulent intent to R. A. Long and Lawrence M. Jones, and he was bound over to the United States district court which meets tomorrow. In default of the $2,000 bond Wilson was sent to the county jail.
"I knew my boy never meant anything wrong," said the Rev. W. E. Wilson, the father of the young man, who arrived yesterday from Earlton, Kas. "He simply wanted to borrow the money to pay me back the debts he has incurred during the past years. If he has violated any law, I'm willing to have him punished, but I can't see where it is. He has the best reputation in our part of the country, and I can't see where any harm was done."
According to the father, the young man's past had not always been a rosy one. He had become extravagant and had invested his savings in mining stock which never amounted to anything. He had been successful as a school teacher, the father said.
When Commissioner Nuckols announced that the young man would have to be bound over and that the bond was $2,000, the father said:
"I can get him here to trial. He won't have to stay in jail, will he?"
"I'll have that disagreeable duty to perform if the bond is not furnished," was the commissioner's response.
