The herald., 1898-11-07
SOLD Mining STOCK
AND BOUGHT IT BACK AT A FAB
ULoUs PREMIUM
SUPERlNTENDED THE DRAWING
His Friend, Mr.. Taylor, Was at the
Head of the Scheme-Cleared
About a Thousand Dollars

The Times of yesterday followed the re-
cent expose of Justice Morrison made in
The Herald by giving some further and
valuable facts as showing that the man is
unworthy of the Office he has held and of
the reelection he seeks.
According to the article, Judge Morrison
has acted as the agent of a lottery scheme
in which he is SAID to have inveigled his
friends in Chinatown. The regular Chi
nese lotteries have long defied the police,
though strenuous efforts have been made to
break up these nefarious games. Morrison 3
business has made him well acquainted in
Chinese quarters, and recently, the story
goes, he went there and presided over the
drawing of mining scheme lottery, in
troduced by man named r. f. Taylor,
whom he represented as his friend, and a
mining man worthy of trust. The Judge,
it is said addressed the Chineses board OF
trade on the lottery scheme and was one Of
n quartet of men who conducted the cere-
some of the prizes which he held in COM
mon with his friend Law Ark Fawn.
1t was represented that Taylor had been
a bank president in Riverside and was in
terested in some large mining schemes,
prominent among which was the Death
Valley Mining company. This was pos
sessed of valuable claims but was in want of
capital to work the miles, and plan was
devised to let the Chinese in on what was
represented to them to be most profita-
BILE basis. The company had $4,000 worth
of stock certificates to sell at the price Of
50 each, representing fifty shares of stock.
These were to be sold and Taylor repre-
sented that the company or he would buy
them back on an order, to be arranged by
lot, at varying premiums.
The first number drawn was to represent
stockholder who would have his certificate
repurchased at $1,000, or a profit of 1908, or
a return of 44,900 per cent on his first in
vestment; the second purchaser represent
ed by the second number drawn was to get
$500 for his 50 certificate, the next 5000,
the next $500, the next $500, and 80 on;
but this was too large plan for the num-
ber of those who it was thought could be
induced to venture in this financial thin
ble-rigging, and it was decided to limit the
number of certificates to 1000, to be sold at
50 each, and the drawing was to determine
those which were to be repurchased at 500
down to SO each.
Mr. Taylor needed, of course just such a
chaperone as Morrison, who was enabled
to give him good send-off with the mer-
chants and others. They all knew, proba-
bly,, that the stock would be worth little or
nothing as an investment, but the scheme
had gambling glamour about it, and, un-
like Mr.. Wilson Porter of the California
club, Chinese gentlemen gamble, and,
moreover, they pay when they lose But
the Mongols did not take to the scheme well
and the limit of certificates was finally re-
duced to 700, and, with the aid of Suey, a
well known cigar dealer, and Wong Sam
Wing, who acted as Taylor's agents, quite
ing came off few weeks ago in Ying's store
in Niger alley.
conducted the arrangements and they paid
the prizes the next day. though it is said
that Taylor drew several himself as he held
the unsold stock certificates, and some of
these happened to be winners. A profit of
several hundred dollars was made and sup
posedly divided among the promoters.
In certain quarters this proceeding is
thought to throw some light on the diff
Guilty there has been in preventing the hold
ing of such games in Chinatown and also
the obstacles which have been in the way of
punishingi the white proprietors of tape
games and other swindling devices which
have in the past and recently again in
tested the city. The police have always de-
olared that the trouble has been with the
justices courts, where, they claimed, the
prisoners were turned loose as fast as they
were arrested Justice Morrison has come
in personally for some of these charges and
has been denoted as the princi-
pal block in the way of pun
ishing such offenders. One of the
police officials told Herald man lately
that all of the charges recently made against
this justice were true beyond any question.
Taylor is said to have gone to San Fran
cisco soon after the transaction was closed,
to work the same enterprise there, and
Justice Morrison, it is said, recently made a
trip to the same city "on mining business. .