The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-11


whom Stewart had undertaken to serve,
but from whom he had managed to Guy
his interest, and secure whatever profit
there was to be made by the manipula-
lions Of Park and Stewart. Stewart was
not then prejudiced against men of large
means or high standing as tinanciers. In
order to induce Schenck to come in, he
sent him on Nov a list of the English
men he had induced to enter the Emma
mine irectory. This is his description
of them:
E. Bridges Willyams, member of parlia-
ment for Cornwall, banker and smelter;
very wealthy and of high character.
E. Lee PembertOn, member of parlla-
ment for West Kent; large landed pro-
prietOr
The Hon. John c. Stanley, heir to Lord
Stanley of Alderley; very wealthy.
George Anderson, member of parlia-
ment for Glasgow, coppersmith; large
wealth..
He had other names, and all were to be
''of the standing of the foregoing names.
1t was all done to make an impression,
and the disguised stockholders soon knew
how well the mischief of Pantaloons had
been worked that time. There were side
lights let in during the investigation
which would have enabled the investors,
if they could have known them sooner, to
avoid the trap into which they fell. Lyon,
Stewards client, testified that when
Stewart was trying in Utah to get pos
session of the mine for him, as against
Parks claims, Stewart urged him to con-
sent to consolidate his claim with Cali
fornia company, as that company had
capital of $4,000, 600, with a great many
shares 'And he said" testified Lyon,
that 1 could get large interest in these
shares, and that there were shares
enough to give all the witnesses and jury
men all around Salt Lake City all that
was necessary"
Stewart Indignantly denied this But
Pantaloon never confesses, even when the
sauSages drag on the ground behind him.
Stewart and Park had bad opinions of
each other before they combined to work
off the "worked-out' mine on the English
people. Lyon declared that Stewart told
him many time that Park would swear
to a lie, would steal the records of a
court, would buy witnesses, or would do
anything else just to carry his point, and
that Lyon must not talk to him alone.
Lyon told Stewart that "Mr. Park says
hard things about you, too. He says that
you buy judges and juries, etc, at your
discretion" Right after That Park and
Stewart got together, and knowing" as
Lyon said, that the Emma mine was
worked out" laid the plan for putting it
on the English market. There does not
seem to have been any doubt about that
or about the conclusion reached by
Stewart and Park that there was a much
better use to put the mine to than to
make it the basis of a lawsuit that would
only turn over to them the undisputed
title to property that would not pay the
costs of the litigation. And this was
scheme in which senator was en-
gagged.
The late Senator Morton testified to
some facts that indicated the willingness
of MIR. Stewards friend Park to use 1.-The
venal press when he could find it. In
his testimony he told how Mr.. Park had
told me he had given Senator Stewart
2,400 shares of this stock to become di-
rector himself and to assist in getting
Gen. Schenck's name on the board. He
said that Mr.. Stewart was very init
mately acquainted with Gen. Schenck,
and he was not, and that it was through
Stewards influence that Gen. Schenck
was induced to join the board"
Then there came along Fisher, who was
a sort of Harlequin in this play. Park
told Morton that Fisher was a very val
liable man. what do you think l paid
the Mining Journal for two articles re-
Gently published putting this mine?"
(Morton) guessed nothing. Said he:
Fisher made the bargain, and he got it
done for $500 and gave them a call on 250
shares of the stock at ESQ the share" OF
course, Pantaloon knew about this.
Further on in his testimony Morton
told of the securing in England of a sus-
ceptible director, MIR. Willyams, who was
brought over here by Stewart, surro und d.
ed to keep him from enemies" of the
failing mine, and put through the motions
of examining it, the result being report
intended to sustain the faith in the mine
of the frigh .ened stockholders who were
not receiving any more dividends and
wanted to know the reason why. When
the shareholders complained that there
was some sharp practice about EOS, 900 of
alleged proceeds of silver ore sales, the
money for which had really been ad-
vanced by the vendors of the mine to
quiet suspicion and alarm and pay divi-
dends, they began to fear that they had
been deceived in the purchase. Il said
to Stewart" said Morton "'You
have tied these shares all
up for nine months; how do you intend to
satisfy the English shareholders, when
you know there is no ore in this mine to
take out this winter?' oh said he, we
can do that easy enough 1t is very
snowy country out here, and we can tell
them it storms so much in winter that
there is no necessity for taking out any
more ore in winter, because we can take
out as much in the summer as we can
haul" And this was not long before
the Emma mine property, part of which
had been bought by Lyon for something
like $3.50, 600 had been sold for millions of
pounds to misguided spectators, and was
sold in a judicial proceeding for $4,000.
In the book of nearly 900 pages that
contains the record of the inquiry into the
Emma mine scandal, there is scarce a
page in which the name of Stewart does
not appear. Mr.. A S. Hewitt, who
made the report for the committee on for
eign affairs, was not asked by the House
to report upon the conduct OF anybody
but Gen. Schenck, and the participation
of Stewart was made subordinate, just as
the cavortings of PantalOOn in the pan
tomime are never star performances
But he was scarce ever off the stage; he
and the ''bad rObberr were always peer
ing out from behind corners and forever
reckoning some unsophisticated person
into their mine There may have been an
affectation of humor in the wag of the
whiskers, but if they produced the i'm
preston of goodness and charity 1t was
the illusion that Casby wrought, and
that might have been dispelled in a mo-
ment by quick scissors and ruthless ra-
zOr.
Is this same PantaloOn now endeavor-
ing to lead the people Of the United
States behind him and his little clique OF
silver associates to another Emma mine
speculation of a larger sorti He could
not expect to succeed again in England,
n no