The Greensboro patriot [March 27, 1901]

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THE GkEENSBOROPATRIOT
VOL. 80. GREENSBORO, N. C, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 1901.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
Dr. W. J. RICHARDSON.
OFFICE: KA.TZ BUILDING-.
RESIDENCE: 615 W. QASTON ST.
W. P. BEALL, M. D,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
OFFICE: Loan and Trust Bldg.
KESIDBNCE : 404 Asheboro St.
Office Hours, 11:30 to 1; 3 to 4:30.
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DrT J. E. WyCRE,
DENTIST.
NO. 13.
SW1HDLERS COME TO GRIEF.
A DARING ARREST MADE HERE
LAST FRIDAY.
ggj-< >ili.-c in Savings Bank Building,
South Elm street, Greensboro, N. C.
Dr. M. F. FOX,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
liuilford College, X. C.
EDWARD BAUM. M. D.
PHTSIGIAH AND SUBGEON.
C*:=; 12'. S. Elm St., Greensboro, N. C.
iivi'R KAK1-S' DRl'G STOKE.)
Mention paid to the diseases Of the
EYE, EAR, NOSE, THROAT.
Coiisiiliaiiug Hours:
11 A. M.-. 2 i»* and : i" 3 P.M.
Gold Brick Men Become Entangled
in the Meshes of the Law in At-tending
to Work the Gold Brick
Scheme in Greensboro—A "Weldon
Man's Nerve and the Daring of
Local Officers Responsible fcr the
Capture-The Swindlers Wanted
in Other Places.
The city was thrown into a furor of
excitement Friday afternoon when it
became known that three desperate
criminals had been captured while at-tempting
to work the gold brick
scheme on a gentleman whom they
supposed to be a guileless and unsus-pecting
citizen. The arrest was a
most daring one and the capture is be-lieved
to be one of the most important
made anywhere in the United States
in a long while. The names of th«
confidence men are J. L. Howard, alias
George Howard, alias Frank Thomp-son,
alias Trail Frank; A. L Daley,
alias Bonez Gono, and H D. Hawley.
The prisoners were placed in jail
until Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock,
when they were brought into the court
house for a preliminary hearing be-fore
Justice Eckel on a warrant charg-ing
them with a conspiracy to rob Mr.
Paul Garrett, a wealthy citizen of
Weldon, of a large sum of money, the
amount being uukuown. The case
was moved, however, upon an atlHavit
made by the defendants, to Justice
the mine and four gold bricka, the lat-ter
being estimated to be worth some-thing
in the neighborhood of $50,000.
Two of the bricks were in possession
of the Indian at his camp near Greens-boro,
and Mr. Garrett was requested
to come at once to satisfy himself of
the genuineness of tbe gold. Mr. Gar-rett,
however, was sparring for time in'
which to formulate plans for the oap-ture
of the swindlers, and told Thomp-son
that he could not possibly be in
Greensboro before Friday, as he was
compelled to till an important engage-ment
in Norfolk Thursday. He sug-gested
that Thompson telegraph him
Thursday afternoon, if the proposed
business arrangement should be sat-isfactory
with the Indian, and he
would then meet him at Greensboro.
Upon Thompson's assertion that he
could neither read nor write, Mr. Gar-go
forward that Gonez might gaze
upon hiscountenance. The inspection
being satisfactory, the gold bricks
were brought from concealment and
exposed to the enraptured vision of the
new partner. Scales were brought
out and the bricks weighed, tipping
the beam at 95 and 96 pouuds, respect-lively.
The miner tbeu produced a
brace and bit and requested Mr. Gar-ret
to bore into one of the bricks for
dust to be assayed. Just as tbe boring
process was about to begin the voice of
Mr. Patterson was heard commanding
"Hands up, or Til shoot!" In another
instant the party was surrounded and
tbe romance had reached the climax.
TOBACCO NOTES.
Items of Interest to the Grower, the
Dealer, and the Manufacturer.
MARKET REPORT.
The receipts on our market have
not been large for tbe past week, but
there has been a nice sprinking of the
weed, which has kept our buyers busy
for the most of the time. We have had
a very nice season for the last two or
three days, and we are looking for a
lot of tobacco uniess it turns cold
enough to prevent farmers from mar-keting
the weed. The quality of the
offerings remai JS about the same, with
The miner made a motion as M to7raw a feW. pile8 of *ood wrappers and good
a revolver, but before his hand could
reach his pocket he was looking down
the barrel of the Welden "soft snap's"
weapon. Just as Sheriff Jordan came
rett wrote out two tel. grams, one of | Into the thicket he was confronted by
which was to be sent if the Indian
should be willing to take him into
partnership, the other if the reverse
should be true. The telegram telling
him to come was marked thus X with
a blue pencil, in order to enable the
"ignorant miner" to distinguish it
from the other, and read, "Gonez is
willing; come at once."
Before Thompson left Weldon it was
agreed that he and Mr. Garrett were
to go to Philadelphia and dispose of
the gold in the possession of tbe In-the
Indian in a half standing posture,
with drawn gun. The Indian looked
realistic and murderous, as if he had
not been long from a war dance, but it
didn't take tbe pluckv sheriff more
than three-flftbs of a second to draw
his formidable forty-four and com-mand
the red man to drop his gun and
throw up bis hands on the penalty of
death. Something in tbe sheriff's eye
told the Indian to obey the command,
and his hands went up, while tbe gun
fell from his nerveless grasp to the
dian chief, Gonez Bono, purchasing grouud. A member of the posse then
mining machinery with the proceeds
from the sale. It was suggested that
the Indian might not wish to goto
Philadelphia, in which event the two
Wolfe. The prosecution was repre- other partners could purchase bis in-sented
by Solicitor Brooks and King , rerest In the gold and mine. Beingin-de
Kiuiball. Maj Charles M. Stediuan , terrogated, Mr. Garrett said he could
A. U. SCALES. J. I- SCALES.
Scales & Scales,
Attorneys and Counsellors at Law, **>* ^ar what transpired.
.i,/-,r>/-» v r- Mr. Paul Garrett, the princi
and Messrs. G. a. Bradshaw and W. P.
Kagan appeared for the defeudauts.
The great interest felt by the public
in the matter was shown by the hun-dreds
of people who crowded into the
! court room, all intensely eager to see
GREENSBORO, N. C-Z.
V. TAYLOR,
GREENSBORO, N. C
ROBERT^TDODGLAS,
Attorney - at - Law,
■AVISOS BANK Bni-DlSO,
G-SSEUSBOBO, £T- C.
J.G.BTM U. W. P. BVSl'M.JB.,
BYNUM & BYNUM,
attorneys and Counsellors at Law.
106 COURT SQUARE.
Oliver S. Newlin,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
GREENSBORO, X. C.
Office :n Wright Building, ei.-'t of Court
-.
Prompt attention given to all business en-trusted
t.. lnni.
'
c.G.WRIGHT
.AnawAttorney at Law.
WRIGHT BUILDING,
OPPOSITE COL'kT HOUSE,
GREENSBORO, N.C.
pal wit-ness
for the prosecution, was the first
man put on the stand. He told a
straightforward and well connected
story of the effort made by the defend-ants
to work the gold brick scheme on
him. His testimony savored more of
a romance of tbe wild West in tbe pio-neer
days than of the evidence usually
heard in courts of justice.
Mr. Garrett testified that on the pre-ceding
Wednesday he received a call
at his place of business in Weldon from
a rough and uncouth man who intro-duced
himself as Frank Thompson, a
wealthy miner from Arizona. Thomp-son
stated that several years ago he
and a man by the name of Andrew
Garrett were engaged in gold mining
Arizona, but met with poor success.
His partner was called to Charlottes-ville,
Va , to attend to the business of j
a well-to-do aunt. When they separ-
' ated it was with the agreement that if
' either of them ever "struck it rich" the
other was to share in the good fortune.
Thompson remained in Arizona and
continued his prospecting until about
two years ago, when he struck a very
rich vein of ore. By this time be had
picked up another partner—an Indian
Chief by tbe name of Gonez Bono—and
they, with the aid of a half dozen
squaws, had worked the mine until a
few weeks ago, accumulating consid-erable
wealth during tbe time.
With tbe double purpose of purchas-ing
machinery, in order that tbe mine
DR.'BURBANK ,|niBnt De worked to better advantage.
Optimal. oi'Rist. aud burning up his erstwhile partner,
secure the money to pay for his share
of the Indian's interest. Thompson
thought it would not take more than
|4,000 or |5,000 to do this, as the Indian
was ui.civilized and did not know the
real value of Ihe property. After at-tending
to a few other details, in
which Mr. Garrett apparently took the
greatest interest, Thompson left.
After the departure of the miner
Mr. Garrett immediately began to put
his plans into execution. He wrote a
letter to Mr. A. C. Patterson, revenue
agent for this district, apprising him
of the presence in Greensboro of the
gold brick men and telling of bis plans
to capture them. He gave tbe letter
to Mr. H. A. Mims, a nervy young
man of Weldon, and instructed him to
proceed to Greensboro and deliver it
to Mr. Patterson. Mr. Mims was also
instructed - to assist the officers in ar-ranging
for the capture.
In Norfolk Thursday afternoon Mr.
Garrett received the telegram bidding
snatched off the disguise and tbe In-dian
from the hills of Arizona was
quickly transformed into a sturdy but
greatly excited white man.
A oard was found in the pocket of
the miner having written on it "H. I).
Hawley. Hotel Guilford " This was to
direct the "guileless subject" to the as-sayed,
who was to testify to the gen-uineness
of the gold. Leaving the
prisoners in the hands of the other
working tobacco scattered among them
Prices remain about the same as tbey
have been for several weeks past and
farmers have been wonderfully pleased
with same. Our sales were good yet-terday
and today and we are looking
for larger sales the remainder of the
week.
Mr. J. S. Cobb, of Winston-Salem,
spent last Friday in the city.
Mr. C. A. Bray, of Bray Brothers,
spent Sunday and Monday in Baltimore
with Mrs. Bray.
Mr. A. A. Walker, chief wrapper
buyer for the Continental Tobacco
Company, with headquarters in Dan-ville,
Va.,spent a short time in the city
last week.
The following are among the Ala-mance
county growers who have sold
j tobacco here within the past week:
, Eli Graham and sons, A. J. Bolatid, S.
I A. Tate, J. M. Hurdle, Hurdle & Miles,
| William Tate. Montgomery May, Juuies
| M. Newlin, T. N. Mitchell and W. S. i
; Whitcsell.
Amoiij the Guilford farmers on the
market during the week were J. T.and
T. A. Stuart, W. J. Groome, W. J. Rob-
SPECIAL
PREMIUM
$5.00
Of anytbing we sell as a special
premium for tbe best bushel of
wheat exhibited at our fair next
October snd awarded by the
judges. This bushel of wheat is
to be troni the 1901 crop and cut
with a Mc^ormick Binder bought
from M. G. Newell & Co. this
year. $2.50 in trade also for tbe
best bale of bay cut with a 1901
McCormick Mower. We not
only receive Implements and
Buggies daily, but we sell them.
members of the party. Sheriff Jordan erson, A. A. Michael, D. G. Hodgin, H.
aud Mr. Daniel returned to town and ! 0- Rudd, B W. Johnson, H. L. Gray,
arrested Hawley, who was standing on M< A- Bowman, David Forsyth,Samuel
the sidewalk in front of Hotel Guilford.
About |400 in cash was taken from
the bunco men and their property
seized. 'i'lie property consisted of
several grips and valises containing in
addition to personal effects, an assayer's
outfit, burglars' tools, a number of keys,
a dirk, "doctored" ore, several state
maps, railroad schedules, a copy of
Bradstreet's report with an alphabet-
Hufiiues, J. D. Smith, J. F. Gray, J. L.
Davis, Peter Cobb, M. A. Ballinger,
Morebead and Johusou, U. W.Gordon,
C. R. Harris. J. L. Hawkins, M. R.
Duncan, J. W. Phibbs and T. J. Jessup.
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GREENSBORO, N. C.
United States, a directory of all the
bank presidents and cashiers in the
country, etc. Oue of the grips also
contaiued a copy of the New York
Herald of February 24th. giving au ac-count
of the arrest iu that city of the
miner, who gave his name there as
him to come and possess bis own—th George Howard. He was arrested for
one-third interest in the gold bricks | obtainiug and opening valuable mail
and the mine. Being a man who be- ' matter wbicb did not belong to bim
| lieves in always tilling enaggetuents, and was held under a bond of $2,500.
especially when of so Important a na- i He forfeited his bend aud skipped the
ture as this one, Mr. Garrett took the town. The paper gave a picture of
first train forGreensboro,arrivingbere ' the prisoner which was easily recog-
Friday at noon. He was met at the de- | nized. The paper also slated that he
pot by his new friend and partner,
Thompson, the miuer from Arizona.
Mr. Garrett went to the McAdoo House
for dinner, while the miner went to
engage a livery team to take them out
was a member of a gold brick gang.
The preliminary hearing was not
concluded until 11 30 o'clock Saturday
night, when 'Squire Wolfe ordered the
ette Company. New York. There is
no secret about their manufacture. A
Japaueee fibre is used on the outside of
the gold or leaf simply to strengthen
the wrapper, and when the cigarette is
ignited tbe smoke passes through the
virgin metal tube into the smoker's
mouth, with the full flavor of the ex- \
quisite blend of Turkish tobacco, and
without the harmful and irritating ef-fect
of burning paper The metal does
not crumble, but holds Ihe ash until
smoked up or brokeu off. The cigar-ette
will not stick to tbe lips, will not
stain the liugers, and is absolutely non
poisonous.
DIVORCED FOR SMOKISC. A PI1-E
Charles De Rouvel, the novelist, has
New Magistrates.
The following new magistrates in
Guilford county have been appointed
by the legislature for a term of six
years from April 1st:
Clay township—Thomas R Greason,
H. E. Rankin aud J. Henry Coble.
Green township—James F. R. Clapp
and W. H. Bennett.
Deep River township—Joseph A.
Davis.
Monroe township—C. A. Whitworth,
A. J. Lambeth and Frank G. Chilcutt.
Fentresstownsblp —John C. Kennett.
Morebead township —William Love,
W. W. Wood and John Lewis.
i. Miner township-John W. Mc-
Nairy and John A. Pritchett.
Summerfield township-John C.
Bunch, C. F. Johnson, C. H. Willson,
T. J Rhodes and A. J. Burton.
Jefferson township —Walter McLean
You must be tolerant," said the
before whom tbe suit was
Southern
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Greensboro. N. C.
Prescription
Glasses Onlv.
three defendants held for the next
to the "Dig Injun chiel" and the glit- I term of Guilford Superior court. There
tering gold. 'being some dispute as to tbe amount
In the meantime the officers of thejof bond that should be required, he].-,
law had not been asleep. Upon re- stated that he would take the matter
celpt of the letter informing himof the j under advisemeut until Monday. By
presence of tbe gold brick men Mr. that time a number of inquiries were
Patterson -md with Sheriff Jor- coming in from other places where j worge tbau cijraretteC 8aid De Rou.
dan, and they, together with Mr they had been operating and tbe pris-| veK t
MlmS, set OUt to locate the swindlers oners knew that if than an.ru in he rs. „"„. -.. .....
with whom to divide his good fortune, | Before the arrival of the -victim" they ' "eased hTTlt would Z,hiI to be Ir- | **-"'^^^ *****
been granted an absolute divorce on \ and Walter Lindsay.
the ground that his wife refused to Washington township—J. J. Busick,
quit smoking. w. Newton Wright, <;. L. Sockwell
and C. A. Tickle.
Sumner township—J. F. Coletrane,
brought. "Many society ladies smoke i E. F. Paschal, F. F. Glenn, T. J. Har-cigarettee
nowadays."
"But my wife smokes something
he and the Indian chief came East. He had spotted Thompson, Hawley, Daley : rested immediately on a warrant from
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" !" tT*V;'lt '7"? co
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no'd,;rable I Che Indian) and another, whose name I some other Plac,. "so they sent word to
exentandk..ewbutluUe„ftheways|i8UIlknown „d who ed arrest. 'Squire Wolfe that ne need fix no bond,
of the world, and dur.ng the trip was , This was most creditable work on the as they were unable to gi,e bail.
part of tbe embryo detectives, for! sheriff Jordan and Chief of Police
neither of them had ever seen any of i Soott have received inquiries from
robbed of $300 by "a man what wore
store clothes and a biled shirt and had
soft, white bauds.'' However, he man-aged
to reach a town called Greens-boro,
N. C., where the Indian was
taken sick and was unable to proceed
the men tbey were after.
After partaking of a hearty dinner
Mr. Garrett got iuto a buggy with the
"A pipe, your honor," said the novel-ist;
"a vicious, bulldog briar pipe."
"Divorce granted," said the court
without further commeut.
The revelation has caused wide '
spread wonderment, as Mine. Rouvel;
is an otherwise refined matron of good
quite a number of places where one or social standing.—New York World.
more of tbe men have been. In some |
instances they went under the same ' who was stopping at a hotel in Green-r!
, „„ , ■ . ^""er and drove out Asheboro street names they used here and appear to ville, certified to the genuineness of
further on the journey. As be In- , 8nd in the direction of South Buffalo, i have alwavs pursued the same methods,
dian would not stop in town, Ihomp- carrying along a strong and steady i Mr. A. C. Miller, a wealthy cotton mill
son carried him out into the woods and I nerve and a tr
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Capital,
Surplus,
the metal. The Indian tbeu appeared
to become dissatisfied and wished to
rUf"y revolver. They I man of Shelby, writes that he received I dispose of his interest in the mine and
left him at a camp, after which he nro- worn fnii„n-...i -•,.,<•> •-. , • ,, ^
.,..,, ._„". .,...„_.>.. . ^^.i were followed, stealthily and unknown! a call five weeks ago from the miner, bricks. Mr. Wheeler paid $7,000 in
to the miner, by Sheriff Jordan, Reve- j who told him the B.tme tale that be re- i cash 'for what he considered a "sure
nue Agent Patterson, Deputy Sheriff ' lated to Mr. Garrett. At that time tbe ' thing," after which he and the miner
Weatherly, Dr. J. T. J. Battle, and j Indian was at Spartanburg, S. C , with started to Philadelphia to purchase
Messrs. Garland Daniel and Z. V. the gold bricks. The prisoners are be- mining machinery. On the way he ASS81S, 0?6r
Conyers. Near South Buffalo Thorap- Iteved to have visited Leuoir and became separated from his new friend
son turned out into a cartway and I Washington. N. C, and South Boston, and partner and was never again able
drove a short distance, where the horse | Va.. recently. | to locate the miner. When it was too !
was hitched. He then piloted Mr. j Monday night Mr. D H. Wheeler, of late Mr Wheeler realized that be had
Garrett some distance up the creek,! Newberry, S. C , and his son, Mr. S. F. been buncoed. After tbe North Cam-through
cane brakes and brier thickets, [ Wheeler, of Hendersonville, N. C, ar- *•» tUSS^^tJ^J^SS^, *'*'*'the
._„. „ wi jt,. ... HH . gold brick men Mr W heeler may have
over marshy places and boulders. After j rived iu |Greensboro and yesterday the 8ati8faction of seeing them doing
visited the j»il and Identified tbe pris- , time iu tbe South Carolina peniten-oners
as the men who swindled the tiary.
elder Mr. Wheeler out of $7,000 six A Widow • Love Aflair
years ago. Mr. Wheeler was ap- | Kecjiveg a 8etback. if she ha. offen-proacbed
at his home by the miner, 8iye breath through Constipation, Bili-vey
and K. C. Short.
High Point township—H. C. Kearns,
W. C. Jones, F. J. Homey, J. W. Guire
and W. H. Idol.
Jamestown township—James W.
Davis.
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ceeded to Charlottesville in search of
his "pard." Andrew. There he learned,
greatly to his sorrow, that Andrew was
dead, but was told that Andrew's
brother, P. Garrett, resided in Weldon.
Believing that Andrew's brother might
take the place of tbe dead partner, be
proceeded to Weldon to investigate.
Before the miner had reached this
point in his narrative Mr. Garrett was
convinced that he was "up against" a
confidence man. He determined, how- I proceeding for some distance, they
ever, to make an effort to turn his came back over a different route to a
caller over to the law. He Informed large brier thicket, a secluded and
the miner that, while he regretted that lonely spot, where Mr. Garrett was
he was not Andrew's brother,he would | commanded to stand still while his
$100,000.00
15,000.00
500,000.00
DEPOSITORY OP TH«
United States,
State ot North Carolina,
City of Greensboro,
County of Guilford.
be pleased to render bim any assist-ance
in his power. This seemed to
please Thompson, who made a propo-sition
to take Mr. Garrett into part-nership,
giving him a third interest iu
companion advanced to greet "Big who induced him to go to Greenville : ousness or Stomach Trouble, but Dr.
Injun Chief." A jibberish, not alto- : and inspect the gold bricks in tbe pos- Xing's New Life Pillsalwayscure those
gether unlike the gobbling of two tur- i session of the Indian. He was carried irou?Ie"J.c'r.*h
n hhe«y,I;ein,»!w?e!en!l!* , . . .7. .7 . breatn, banish beaaacbe; best in the
keys, was heard, after which the "soft into the woods, where the "gold" was , worid for liver, kidnevs and bowels.
soap" from Welden was requested te ; exhibited to him, after which Hawley,' Only 26c at Holtou's drug store.
We have every facility for the prompt
and intelligent conduct of all business
entrusted to us.
Your Account Solicited.
J. X. WALZZB,
President.
LEX S. BATTLE,
Cashier.