Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1885-02-14
Called tho Turn.

While it rs not always gratifying to
have ones suspicious prove true We
congratulate ourselves on not having
made the mistake to devote columns
eulogizing a confidence operator now
spoken of for the first, by the Deadwood
Times as follows:
"A Bad Blow-Deiivered by a willy
old Hypocrite 10 the entire Black Hills.
The Laflin Fraud as Prosecuted by the
Eminent Prof. Taylor"
While never having met the above
mentioned confidence operator, We were
lead to publish the following at a time
when Deadwood papers were gushing
owe the aforesaid fraud:
CHRONICLE, Dee. Eff somebody
does not get scorched in the Greenwood
property the signs will fail. The stamps,
are hung up and all work suspended on
the Sabbath, by order Of Prof. TAylor.
CHRONICLE. Jan. l. Mr.. TAYLOR. supt.
Of the Greenwood property, taxes Dead
wood merchants , per cent on all bids
filled for his company by them and they
begin 10 think that he is 4 Sunday.ob
serving. daylight robber.
On Tuesday Judge Bennett received
the following dispatch from Matt Latin,
president Of the Greenwood Mining
company: ARREST Professor Ta, Tor
and proceed against him civilly and
criminaily to the full extent OF the law"
Accordingly the Professor was arrest
ed and at last accounts was in the hands
Of the sheriff, having failed to obtain
the required $4,000 bail.
The papers upon which the actions
are commenced are the aflidavits of
Fiormdnn and l. Il. Hammond.
The first mentioned affidavit states
that TAYLOR represented to Mr.. Latin
that IS assays showed the ore TO average
$40 per tor and that it could be milled
and mined for S., also that the owners
of the property would sell for sl5O,Oo0
cash, and for nothing less; that he
(defendant) had thoroughly examined
the property, and knowing that it was
worth that amount of money, he would
join with plaintiff ILahin) in the pur-
chase, paying $4,000 for q II third in
%terest, Latin to pay 100000 for the re-
naming two-tbirds. Thus "wiltulIy,
falsely and ~fraudulently representing
he induced plaintiff to pay Flormann
the sum OF $4,000 and $50, 900 to him
self (Taylor), said money to be applied
in purchasing the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
representing that had paid 100000" all
Of which was false, as the only sum
agreed to he paid was $57 ,000-$l5.0O
by Flormann and 1900 by Taylor
the latter keeping, with intent to defraud
Latin, Of $4,000, and b. such false pre-
tense, defendant obtained one-third in
terest in and to said property.
In the second affidavit Hammond
makes oath that defendant, a resident OF
London, England, threatened to leave
the country Feb. 8. without intent of re
turning; that defendant had represent
ell 10 Mr.. Latin that he had made from
seventy to seventy-five assays Of Green.
wood ore, giving an average return OIL
more than SO q ton and that said ore
could be mined and milled for not to
exceed IS a ton. infant is familiar with
said ores, and declares that they are
practically va!nrl, SIS. h!iiant further
says that defendant caused TO be mined
and miiled 5000 tons thereof, the gross
yield of which did not exceed - and
that milling facilities We're ofihe very
best character. Atiiint caused an ANAL.
gamating test to be made bv c~onpetei
parties, and that such test showed only
50 cents To the ton. Five assays were
also made. showing an average yield OF
only $l.49 to the ton.