The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-08-15
MONUMENTAL LIAR.
The Plausible Plans of a Very
Smooth TOngued Tramp.
EFFICACY OF THE ELIXIR OF LIFE.
1t Produces Assesses Foresters-
Keens and Schaeffer to YOUNGSTOWN
= Bodies Cincinnati Sunday Law.

Especial to THE HERALD-Examiner Dispatch. !
STERLING, Mass, Aug IA loquacious,
ruth-stretching tramp has set the towns of
Clinton and Lancaster in a connections and
shown how well fabricated tongue some
times deludes men counted keen and know
ing. Napoleon Ives, Henry Willard, Drexel,
Morgan & Co., ex-Secretary Fairchild, be-
sides several Boston bankers, are some of
the gentlemen this loud-mouthed fellow
made people hereabouts believe were his
friends and hackers. The bubble has burst
and carloads of coin that were to have
been poured in here yesterday in exchange
for real estate and personal property, for
the erection of an $4,000 stone mansion,
with fine Conservatives, lawns, blooded
cattle and what not, viii not circulate here
at present; the eloquent tramp has fed,
and well it is for him that he has.
A seedier, shabbier looking specimen, yet
gentlemanly and well spoken, about TWEEN
ty-seven years of age, would be hard to
conceive, than he who raped at Farmer
Powell's back door last March, one bitter
cold day. He wanted job and got it, the
handy man of all work. His name, he said
was Morris Coke, which acquaintance
elongated to w. S. Morris Coke. He had
not been on the farm three days before he
astounded the Powells household with an
account of his travels through Europe, his
intimate acquaintance with some of the
most prominent financiers in New York,
and he backed up his assertions with what
was accepted as documentary evidence
He stated that his father was New York
capitalist, who had tried to have his wan
dering boy giveup his rambling, itinerant
life, and accept the interest yearly ON
SIS, 900. He had married in Cincinnati, he
said, but had secured divorce from his
faithless wife, whose admirer, when chas-
tised, bit off the indignant husbands
thumb.
Coxe's correspondence for hired man
was voluminous Under the name of
William L. Rice he received letters from
New York Several were written with
type writer on the letter head paper of
Drexel, Morgan & Co., bankers, who, he
said, were his vouchers. He also had
letter on the letter head paper of George
w. Sloan, of Boston, and explained that
he had extensive financial dealings with |
Sloan. Those apparently genuine letters
gave him quite prestige. His accounts of
his great prospective wealth, and the |
launching of a gigantic scheme, were mat |
ters of wonderment to the honest tillers of |
the soil in the neighborhood. Suddenly |
Coke startled the community by flourish |
ing bank book, large check book, and |
legal looking documents which, he claimed, |
were S35, 900 mortgage given him by Frank |
H. Harris Cotton, manufacturer of Woon-
socket, r. 1. He also threw his trump |
card, by stating that Coke was not his right |
name, but Henry S. Ives, of New York, |
formerly president of the Cincinnati,
Hamilton & Dayton railroad. Soon after
this, he showed letter on DreXel, Morgan
& Co.'s letter head paper, which, he stated,
for h hot Of
had been elected and chosen him president
Great expectations were aroused in the
minds of the village folks. =
Last week Coke received "a typewriter
letter which, he said, was from eX Secre-
tary of the Treasury Fairchild, respecting
the disposal of certain government bonds.
He stated that he was advised not to sell to
brokers, but to have them redeemed by
at once He started for Boston,
ostensibly. When he returned he declared
that he had secured q check for $35, 900;
then he negotiated for the purchase of Mr..
Burpee's farm and agreed to pay $50 900 for
it. The BuFpee farm was to be greatly i'm
proved. Coke consulted Architect Wood |.
ruff about plans for a mansion. He told
that he had arranged with President
Choate, Of the Old Colony railroad, for a
spur track fronthe Fitchburg & Worcester
division, to the Burpee farm and to the
stone residence. About this
time Coke sprang another scheme upon the
attentive grangers-the building of an air
inc road to New York from Boston, which
would shorten the travelling dis ,ance to two
and one half hours, and so plausible was
lis presentation, so eloquently did he
lilate, that the venture was regarded
quite favorably by some, who had the
money to invest cash for the contamination
If these grand schemes, to be paid over at
l local law firms office Monday Half 4
hundred or more villagers were on hand,
20 assist in so great a coup, which was to
make the modest little town famous the
world over; but Coke failed to materealize,
md he was last seen at the depot as if
lbout to board the outgoing train. Who is
lie? A monumental liar, continually with
tongue as smooth as maiden's cheek