Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-01-09

% mining stock, which he estimated at the
time 10 be worth so. zoe, bat which - worm
nothing now. Ne gave these securities ~
Freund, and relied upon the professor"
honesty Cor returns, witsout taking ever q
receipt or obtaining a signature TO a con.
tract.
The announcement that Mr.. CouerW was
on his way from Milan with Mrs. Freund ana
George Halstead obtained Roadway In the CITY
yesterday, but neither It's source nor us au-
tbentieity could be determined. None OF Mr.
Cot,erllI's friends was IN position TO ainrm OF
deny the rumor.
An EXTRACT OF INTEREST.
In view Of the facts brought out. the iol-
loving article from the Sun OF July ". 1870
makes exceedingly interesting reading;
THE FLIGHT OF A L~kwYER-HIs CLIENTS
DYPRAUDTD AND HIS LAEGE FAMILY HEAkI-
LEssLY ABAYD0NED.-Mr. William Henry
Cotterill, OF Londcn, who had enjoyed an
unimpeached reputation, aud numbeTeu
among his clients many great mercantile
houses, came to New York about i've years
ago and opened an Office at No. 81 Nassau
street, and his European reputation, DIS
knowledge OF mercantile law. and his taml-
liarity with the practice Of British courts won
for him a goodly array OF clients-Engllsh
merchants. widows, pensioners, and others
having claims originating abroad: Then MI
Cotterill enlarged the sphere OF MS opera
tons and undertook the investment OF money
belonging 10 his clients. -
Within the past FIVE weeks Mr.. COtteriH
has been rarely found in his office, stu he
satisfsctorily explained away his absence,
saying thst he had urgent business 10 boston
and elsewhere. One Of bis most conhding
.f..-t. 49,. ,.1 ofuop him charpq OF 80. 0DD
for reinvestment, was Major Patterson, late
OF the British army, a veteran who bad re-
tired from the service and come to America
10 find a home for himself and his aged
mother. Diytrusiful OF the LAWYER, the
Major went 10 Boston and found him.
Cotterill apOlogized gracefully, and sld that
he would return TO New York st once ana
hand bin over his money. He did return 10
the city, but failed TO keep his promise, sn0
when the MaiOr called al the lawyers once
It was empty. Then the M0ior hurried 10
CottsrilPs family's home, over a drugstore
In sixth avenue near Forty-ninth street, ana
found that also vacated.
On Saturday last Mrs. COtterill, an edu-
Gated and wel-born woman, aud her eight
children, took passage 10 the Storage OF me
England, their tickets having been provided
by contributions raised by the rector OF the
church that she attended, her husband
having left her wholly destitute. Cotterill
bad decamDed With over $4,000.
Both Major Patterson and his mother died
before 1888.
FURTHER LIGHT on THE SUGAR FRAUD.
A 81. Louis special says: Among those
who read Of the collapse OF the Electric
sugar Refining Company with lively in
terest was {. G. Rabbit, Of the st. LOUIS
sugar Refining Company, OF this city. Mr..
BaDbitt is the engineer who placed all the
machinery in the refinery in Brooklyn, and
his story indicates that the conspiracy In
cludes others than the Freunds. cit Is
Just two years ago. said he, "since
went TO work for the company. /
had set up and connected the boilers
aud was putting in the steam coils when
President C0tterill and / got talking about
the Professors scheme. j had concluded
that It was u fraud | made this inyestiga-
ton because President COtterIll Induced me
and some friends to buy ZONE shares. | was
sent up TO the secret room next day tohH the
heating pipes, but found a watchman at The
door. We had some words, aud the next
dqy Co,terill aid he would have 10 lay me
OF. and superintendent SBifen said the same.
81 told COtterill, S%nidrn, and Robertson
after fun investigation that the whole thing
vas a fraud. Well, they laid me oil and
gave me SI00-I don't know what tof-and
told me an had 10 do was TO report TO PreSi'
dent COtterilPs Office and draw nv salary.
l reported that way for several months"