Los Angeles herald., 1890-08-12
ABLYrHE SIDE SHOW.
Savage Claimants Sue An Ex-Sherif of
London.

Savage claimants sue An h4-Sn6r1H OF
London.
The curtain will soon be rung up on
side show to the famous Blythe case.
The overture was performed yesterday
in the filing of suit for $3.50 and
costs. The plaintiffs are Alfred, John
and Frederick Savage ct al, spoken of
collectively as the Savage heirs, and they
by their attorney, E. L. Bulkeley, sue
Charles William Cookworthy Hutton
for the sum stated, says the San Fran
cisco Chronicle of Saturday.
The complaint alleges that the defend
ant on September 27, 1888, received
G2350 from certain parties in England
with which to defray the legal expenses
incurred in the prosecution of the Saw
age claims. The money was received
by Hutton in fiduciary capacity, to be
spent only for the benefit of and to aid
the Savage heirs to aproper presentation
of their case. The complaint charges
that of the sum named Hutton appro-
priated $4,000 to his own use and the
further sum of $3,750in alleged expenses
OF the case, which bill of costs the plain
tiffs repudiate in toto, and so demand
the total sum of 81, ,750 and costs.
Mr.. Bulkeley, the attorney for the
Savages, was sought by a Chronicle re-
porter last night and questioned about
the case as he sat at dinner in an O'Far-
rell-street restaurant. He said that
the suit was, in few words, to recover
from Hutton the money which he had
received and had not paid in toward
the expenses of the suit but had appro-
priated to his own use. The attorney
said further that in no paper held by
Mr.. Hutton is he authorized to spend
single dollar for himself. On being ask
ed how the defendant was to be paid,
Mr.. Bulkeley stated that Hutton holds
two mortgages, one for ETC, 800 and the
other for G1O00, or about $57 900 in ill
against the Savage interest. These mort
gage papers were duly received by the
defendant to the present suit few days
before Judge Coffey's decision in the Bly,
the case was rendered. Hutton did send
into the attorney sort of accounting
for certain sum of the money which he
received, and the itemized account, Mr..
Bulkeley says will prove amusing evil
dence at the trial. The only item which
it is acknowledged is correct in this &C
counting is one of $75 paid for the tran
script oil certain testimony.
After spending the first supply furn-
ished by the English syndicate, Hutton
returned to England and raised an ad-
ditional $6750, promising to give in re-
turn a second lien on the Savage inter-
est to the extent of six times the loan,
the first being for eleven times the sum
advanced. The Savage heirs, not salts
fed with Hutton's methods, refused to
give he second syndicate mortgage
and SO that body of speculative Britons
will have to look to Hutton for the re-
turn of their $3.50.
There are thus far three mortgages on
the Savage interest, that of the original
English syndicate amounting to about
$l2l 900, and Hutton's two mortgages of
$57 900. The English attorney, Dona-
hue, who complacently sat through the
trial and was charged recently with oh
tanning money under false pretences, was
to have been paid for his services out of
the money raised by the original syndi-
cate. Attorney Bulkley himself is out
81 200 for expenses, but the coolest prop
osition of all was one made by Hutton
that the mortgage in favor of the second
syndicate should be issued, and that he
should retain possession of the money
subscribed by that body to pay it out as
he saw fit.
Charles William Cookworthy Hutton,
it may be interesting to state, is a
"haberdasher" by trade and was sheriff
of London for year.