The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-08-15
TAKEN In BIZ CON MEN.
BANKER MGREGoR FLEECED BY
GOLD-BRICk sWINDLERs.
Hoary Old Indian Trick, Worked
Near ReveIsfoke, Costs Him aI1.-
0OO-Bunko Man Passes Through
seattle, Where He secG-cs Infted
States Money-Detective MePher-
SON On the Trail.

Detective Mcpherson, good looking,
straight as an arrow and full % business.
arrived In this city yesterday afternoon.
He is engaged in the solution OF q clever
gold-brick swinoie which took place at
kevelstoke. Il. G.. about two weeks ago.
The victim Was q banker named Mctirege-.
who was doing business at Calgary. So
snsinuating were TIE swindiers that they
persuaded him TO go TO Reyelssoke and be
reeced out OF slI..o.
IL Is stated that The price OF the gold
brick OF bricks was paid in Canadian or
British Columbia money, and that the chief
rogue passed through Seattle, stopping
long enough 10 exchange the original
package OF money he received for United
States money.
30 far as can be learned there Is no GER
tainty TO who the guilty parties Were.
hut for some time it was thought the ring
leader was W. II. knowlton, alias Rebel
George" who is too we'll known in Seattle
u need any introduction. The reason that
knowiton was picked out was that the
system used 10 swindle the British Column
bla banker was the same that he employed
IN securing $500 from Banker Wooding.
of Aberdeen.
AS a matter Of fact. Knowiton could not
have been In this deal as after he was
arrested at Spokane. following his depart
Ire from Seattle, he was taken TO Los
Angeles and placed in Jail on a charge
growing out OF the jewelry swindle, men
toned Il dozen or more times in the Post
Intellisencer.
knowlton being disposed of, the next per-
son TO come under suspicion is Anthony
Mellon. knowlton's partner in Seattle the
man who tried TO rob knowlton ana came
very near being beaten TO death by the
game. old confidence man. The where
abouts OF Mellon are not known, SO he
MA has h.a.sf yv.fx sxJ
the matter. II he was, he had confeder-
ate. 1t might be that Russell who was al
legged to be in with knowlton on the Wood
ing case was the man. He is clever and
probably would not object to making a
raise.
Whoever did the job got out of the way
in quick order and ii reports are true
Banker MeGregor has lost his job Most
people will wonder how IL was that such
an old, old game could be successfully
worked in the present day. People wonder
every time an old game is revived, and as
long as people are eager TO make big
money "by going against another mans
game" just so long the swindlers Will
laugh.
The banker In the present ease was
roped into the purchase of the bricks by a
man who repress nted himself to be a reg
ular Old Hoosier. II the story may be be-
lieved he acted the part almost as we'll
as the original, Rebel George" After
full course Of nursing the banker was per-
suaded to go TO Heveistoke. where he was
taken TO a lonely place and introduced to
the Indian. who had the wonderful gold
bricks. just taken. Of course, from mine
OF fabulous wealth: location, a profound
secret. Too much gold for white man.
The bricks were bored, and then marked
so there could not be any change. The
banker Is reported TO have taken his fl
ings to Calgary and had them assayed
The assayer reported, II is alleged, that
the gold was the finest gold The banker
then purchased the bricks. paying 81 .oel
The man with the ST. 90 disappeared and
the banker got ready to send the bricks
to an assay office As luck had Il. the
bricks did not At the box made for them
ana piece OF the rich goi'' was taken
of. More out OF curiosity. than anything
else, this piece was assayed. and TO the
dismsy OF the owner the assayer said II
was nothing but copper.
They have been after that gold-brck man
and his Indian ever since. but they have
not captured him.