National Republican., 1876-04-04

die and Mr.. Schepck swindler. With the
latter gentleman in London attending to
his official duties, and Stewart in San Fran
cisco attending to lucrative law practice, the
brszen-faced Lyon came on to Washington,
and, being sworn as a witness, read mss
Of falsehoods, which were eagerly sent out
to the world by telegraph as the true
story of the Emma Mine. HaTihg no
fear that the persons attacked BY him would
think it worth their while to reply to him,
or put in any appearance before the COM
mittee, Lyon indulged his lying propensity
to its utmost, and represented Schenck,
Stewart and Parke as three rogues, who
had robbed certain Englishmen by selling
them a mine known by them to be worth
less. True, Lyon swore that of the swag
thus sfraudulently obtained he got $500. 900,
and now his letters to Stewart, placed in
evidence, show that the whole animus of
his present campaign was to get $500, 900
more. But yet he labors to convince the
world that the whole thing was a swindIe.
That is TO say, Lyon, failing to get $780,
| 600 in addition to 5000, 600 already paid
him, for an interest he never owned, says:
We were all swindlers, and Parke and
Stewart only gave me 5000, 900 for my
share Of the proceeds the worthless mine.
This is exactly his position.
But the evidence shows that the Emma
Mine was very rich, and that all the prac
tical miners of Utah declare that it is the
centre of vein which is now producing
between three and four millions annually,
and which improves as the work goes
deeper. Tunnels run under the old works
of the Emma Gin violation OF its rights,
which its managers fail to assert,) demon
strate that its richness increases, as wit
ness the productions of Equitable and Bay
City tunnels So far from the mine hav-
ing been sold on the representations of
Stewart, Schenck and Parke, it was sold
on its own ores shipped to England and
the reports of three sets of experts sent by
the English purchasers to examine the
mine before buying. The English pur
chesers divided 5000. OC0 in thirteen diyi-
dends, snd over 81, 100, 900 more was
squandred in salaries and prohigate man
agement. For q year after the sale to the
Englishmen the stock remained above par,
and all reports were good. After year
"fault" was struck in the mine, Of which
the bears, under Lyons lead, took advant'
age, and managing to foist confederate
upon the company as superintendent,
they had things their own way.
This worthy, whose name is At
runa1 loplar rod hot ha haH ronnrtad
against the mine once, and that the policy
was to stop work, find no more ore and sue
tho parties who had sold the stock for the
money invested on the ground of fraud.
Thus, by base and audacious conspiracy
a rich mine was pronounced worthless, aud
the conspirators were able to destroy its
value on the market, for the reason, as just
stated, that the superintendent Of the COM
pany was himself their tool. The object
of all these proceedings was to blackmail
the vendors of the mine. Lyon never
moved without first demanding money of
the men he sought to injure. He has been
shown during the present Investigation to
have perjured himself, and, before it is
concluded, a cloud of witnesses from all the
places he has hitherto infested will swear
that Lis general reputation is that he is not
to be believed under oath. He swore In
1870 that he had no property whatever.
This was to avoid payment of a judgment.
But in another court he swore that he was
the owner at that very time of a third of
the Emma Mine, and that his interest was
worth half a million of dollars. When
asked day or two ago, in the committee,
ments, both made under oath. he coolly
replied that he must have forgotten that he
owned in the Emma Mine. The truth has
come out in the testimony that he never
did own any interest in the Emma Mine
until he forced himself in by. obstructing
the issuance Of a United States patent.
by filing his protest as contestant.
He once agreed verbally with the
original locators of Z claim called the
Monitor, that he would advance neces-
saIy funds to aid in perfecting it. He says
that he accordingly did advance seventy
five dollars. The locators (Woodmsn and
Chisholm) say that he only advanced
twenty dollars. He refused to go on un-
der the agreement, and did no more for
them. They discovered new lead, and
called it the Emma. Then he trumped up
an adverse claim under fraudulent ad-
ministrators sale, and upon that brought
suit and sought an injunction. He at
tempted to bribe Judge Mexican, and of
course failed. He then employed Stewart
and Hillyer, and represented to them that
he had kept his contract with the old loca-
tors, and was an owner with them. He
told them that Judge Mexican approached
him cnfruptly, which afterwards proved
TO be base falsehood.
His protest at the Land Office against the
issuance Of the Emma patent was really
his only stock in trade. Stewart and
Hillyer, persuaded by his representations
that he had some rights, and unable to get
a trial, obtained compromise between
Lyon and Parke, (then managers of the
Emma, conditioned upon the issuance of
the patent, which would necessarily follow
the withdrawal Of Lyons protest. This
compromise was optional for money or an
lubCIGsI III ~ 1JOu uIkCuI
solicitation Stewart went to London with
Parke to sell the mine. The time came to
decide whether Lyon would take money or
retain an interest. Stewart was his attor-
ney to act, but declined to take any respon-
sibility. He telegraphed Lyon to come 10
London, and Lyon went. There he fixed
his own price for all his claim at $150, 600,
which was paid him. Stewart having re-
turned TO America, Lyon threatened to sue
Parke for more money, and to accuse
Stewart of selling him out as attorney. TO
avoid the mischief which such malicious
suit might do to the stock, Parke, without
consulting Stewart, submitted to Lyons
blackmailing robbery to the amount Of
S5O,O From the receipt by him Of his
$50, COO, Lyon led the "rbears," and con-
spired in every way to destroy the Emma
Company. He did not, however, in
these operations at any time pre-
a.