The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-07-03
An ingenious SN|ND[E
Spilman Water Company
Stock Used as Bait
TO LAND The INNOCENT GJDGE0R
Five Entangled Suits Decided
by One Decision
THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
L. J. Laird Arrested, Wanted for Pass.
Ing q Bogus Check
Guavlsh, the Supposed Murderer Of Mrs.
Plat, In More Trouble
The Trial Of the Mings Boys to Follow One
Another-Recorder Hodgman's State
ment for June "A Batch Of
New Suits Filed
THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
L. J. Laird Arrested, Wanted for Pass
Ing q Bogus Check
Guavist, the Supposed Murderer Of Mrs
Plat, In More Trouble

w. T. Spilman Of water development
| fame is again in trouble, but not alone,
for there are others.
J. T. Nicholas, an invalid resident of
| California, who halls from Mississippi,
has grievance, and the representations
he made to the district attorney were of
such compromising nature as to cause
that official to draw criminal COM
plant, upon which warrants were issued
for the arrest of w. T. Spilman, w. d.
Green and ]. X. Warren.
The specific charge against the trio
of worthless is that Of having obtained
from the complainant $500 by false rep
reservations on September "a, 1895.
A very simple scheme it was by which
Mr.. Nicholas was buncoed out of his
money. Being in poor health upon his
arrival in the state. he placed himself
under the care of DR." w. D. Green,
and there made a very great mistake.
The doctor had offices in the Bradbury
block, but unless he was much maligned
he devoted more attention to fake
schemes of various kinds than to his pro-
fession. He soon learned that his pa
tient from the sunny south" had some
money at his disposal which he desired
to invest. 1t mattered not to the dis
ciple of Euscalapius that the slender re-
sources of his client were all he had to
depend on in the world. He represent
ed to Nicholas that splendid opportun-
ity offered for investment, and, with the
assistance Of J. K. Warren, who is re-
puted to be simply a sure-shot gambler
who plies his vocation in this city III
the winters and the various resorts dur
ing the summer months.
1t was represented to Nicholas that the
Spilman Water company, corporation,
owned about 100 acres of water bearing
lands near Glendale. There was $4,000
lying in the bank, and before commence
this city it was desired to in
crease the working capital to
100000 and to do this stock was
being offered to friends of the manage
ment. 1t was represented to have a
par value of 100 cents on the one dollar
Upon this showing, albeit very much en-
bellished by DR." Green and his gamb-
Ter companions, Nicholas put up his capt.
tai, which consisted of $500.
AS matter of fact at the time these
false representations We're being made
the Spilman Water company was prac-
tically inSOlvent. Spilman had obtained
an option on about 100 acres of land near
Glendale, and, after having surveys
made, the company Incorporated; but
not only was there no money to the
credit of the company in the bank, but
any right that it may have had in these
lands was stipulated away in the suit
between the water company and the city
of Los Angeles. AS a consequence the
representations made to Nicholas par
took of the nature of a fairy tale from be-
ginning to end.
or the several parties to this criminal
suit. cap" Spilman, president of the
water company, gained unsavory no.
toriety short time ago by having G. D.
Compton, secretary of the company, ar
rested for having unlawfully dallied
with the affections of his wife. Comp
ton, In turn, got into trouble through
his connection with Henry Wenzel, the
pseudo-pug, who had a roll of water
company's stock in his pocket when
brought back lately from Prescott, Ari-
IONA, by Detective Goodman
Dr. Green has practiced medicine
IN the city in a spasmodic way for sew
eral years, but after obtaining 5000 in
the shape of fee from his Mississippi
patient, and then steering him UP
against the Spilman water company, he
found it convenient to leave the city,
and his accustomed haunts know him no
more.
j. K. Warren is said to be fishing for
suckers in the neighborhood of Redondo.
and ere these lines are read will probab-
ly be under arrest. Spilman was arrest
ed late upon Wednesday night by
Deputy Constable De La Monte. and
was bailed out by President of the Coun-
Gil F. G. Teed and Val. Schmidt, the
First street restaurant man, who quail.
fled on the bond for $4,000. His examina-
ton will take place in the township court
on the 9th inst.