The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1882-04-08
THE GAY AND FESTIVE RICHARD
NJ. BOURNE WANTED IN SAN
FRANCISCO.
Tombstone Epitsph.l

| Tombstone Epitsphl
One Of the checklist transactions that
has come to light in long time happened
in San Francisco and is now undergoing
! judicial investigation so far as one of the
party implicated is concerned II is in
connection with this case that the vendor
of the North Point mine is wanted. Fol-
lowing are the alleged facts as an Epitaph
reporter learned them last evening: In
1864 gentleman, resident in Los An.
geles, held claim against the Mexican
Government that had accrued under the
tmis) rule OF Macmillan. He presented
his claim to the Mexican claims commits
sion at Washington when the matter
took its regular course among the thous-
ands that were adjudicated upon by that
body. In the meantime the owner get
ting tired with waiting left Los Angeles
for San Francisco, where he remained for
time and departed thence for some
other place, leaving behind him the
papers in his case pending before the
commission at Washington. He did not
return to San Francisco for period of
ten or more years During the time of
his absence he dropped out of the knowl-
edge of his friends and became as one
dead, and the public administrator took
the opportunity to administer upon his
estate, which consisted of $4,000 Mex
lean idemnity which had been allowed
by the commissioner. All the formalities
of the law were gone through with, the
man found dead, and the estate duly
settled. In the transfer or sale of this
claim is where it is alleged that the ro-
tund and facile Richard came into the
plot, it being charged that he bought
the SIG, 900 for the paltry sum of 81, 300.
How the "divy" was made between the
administrator and his colleague does not
yet appear, but all the facts will no doubt
be brought forth on the trial of the
whilom public administrator.
For two or three months before the
festive young man took his departure
from Tombstone he was kept under sur
veillance by friend of the man whose
estate he had so effectually helped to ad-
minister upon. 1t was the intention to
have him arrested on criminal charge
here, provided he did not return to San
Francisco, where the suit against the
other party is pending. The gentleman
who had an indirect interest in Richard
NJ, missed him off the street several
days before the expose of the North Point
affair, but did not suppose he had really
taken French leave until reading that
journal He sent the article to his
friend in San Francisco, who, being APP.
prised of "Dick's" departure from Tomb
stone, has been duly vigilant to note his
arrival in the city. An Epitaph reporter
was shown letter from this gentleman
to his friend here last evening, the letter
having arrived by yesterdays mail, and
can certainly say that for plain and
forcible English it was a daisy" 1t
was also reported yesterday that prom.
inent mining superintendent here was toe
confding, and loaned the boy $3.50 on
collateral in the Silver Belt Mining Com.
pany, Of which Bourne was the late man.
ager, the transfer of which has beer
stopped by Mr.. Thomas Ogden, the legit
innate owner of the same.