Morning journal and courier., 1890-10-23
NEWS By TELEGRAPH.
From All Quarters.
CONSPIRACY AND FRAUD.
Notable Litigation in a.
Chicago Court 2.
MILLS DESTROYED J BY 'INeENDlARIEs.
Twelve People. Killed in
Railroad Accidents.
GROWTH OF CONNECTICUT TOWNS.
Fatal Race Riot i'm a
Georgia Town.
GROWTH OF CONNECTICUT TOWNS.
CHARGED WITH CONSPIRACY.

CHARGED WITH CONSPIRACY.
Suit Brought Against a Feminine
-ssNapoleOn of Finance, in Chicago
Her Wonderful ssPull,' on Capital
ists-Interesting Sketch of Her Ca.
reer.
CHICAGO, Oct. 22.-William j. Rotch of
New Bedford, Mass, one Of the defend.
ants in the suit brought by Mrs. Kate Cur
tis-Richmond- West Green in the circuit
court of Cook county against the Wiscon-
sin Lead and Zinc company ct al. for con-
spiracy to defraud, has filed a cross bill
which, if the allegations made therein are
true, proves Mrs. Green to be a woman
Her home is in Easthampton, Mass, and
the following brief account of her career is
extracted from the answer filed by Edward
G.. Lesznsky, one of the defendants in her
suit Complainant is about forty-eight
years of age. She has been three times mar
ried and once divorced; had been a public
Shakesperian reader under the conduct of
a manager; has bought and sold lands. for
herself and others; has dealt. extensively
since 1883 in lead and zinc mining stocks;
has often organized lead and zinc mining
companies and interests therein; has oper-
ated such mines; has had financial and
UuSlucSS 1cldtlouS WILL Uduh6IS, luGTCutuUS
and capitalists in New York and New Eng
land as we'll as in the west has employed
lawyers and other agents; has been engaged
in itigations; has been travelled extensively
and thereby she is and in October and No
vember, 1888, was woman of unusually
worldly and business enterprise. In the
year 1884 she did some prospecting
which resulted in the discovery Of
valuable mineral lands in the neigh
borhood of Galena, ILL.,, and Shi1tzberg,
Wis. Mr.. Rotch, reputed to be million
aire, advanced her considerable money to
purchase the land, promising her half the
profits of the enterprise, she AYERS. She
further declares that in an evil day she adj
mitted Gardiner E. Willard, Chicago at
torney, and Edward G. Leszynsky into the
deal. Leszynsky was to act as her agent
and receive half of her share of the profits,
and she supposed that Willard was acting
as their mutual attorney. In her bill she
charges that Willard and Leszynsky enter
ed into conspiracy with Rotch and in
duced her to sign paper which virtually
excludes her from any of the financial ben
efits resulting from her labors. Rotch
charges that he intrusted Mrs. Green with
100000 TO purchase lands, and that
she fraudulently converted part of the
money to her own use "by causing false
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conveyance, thereby enabling her to re-
tain in her possession large sums. In the
case of the Douglass Farm" now owned
by the Wisconsin Lead and zinc company,
Rotch says he gave her 5000 to purchase
the land, and that she paid only 81 900
and secretly and fraudulently kept the
other $4,000. In the case of the Egan
farm, he says, he gave her $13, 5000 as pur-
chase money, but she paid only So, 500 and
kept So, 500. He says he gave her s11 1897
to purchase the Hutehingon farm, and she
paid 81, 637, retaining $4,000. The price of
the Quigley farm, she said, was $40, $40.
Rotch says he gave her that amount and
she bought the farm for $7,44S, clearing
So, 1872 for herself. She was given s12, 500
according to Rotch's statement to purchase
the William Hampstead property and after
purchasing it she he'd part of it decided to
herself or her son, Frederick @. Richmond,
who still holds title to several acres and
claims to own them. Rotch further
charges that from the year 1885 up to 1883
she acted as his agent in collecting the
rents of land in and near Shiltzberg, Wis,
and that she never paid him any part of
the money so collected