The record-union., 1898-01-17
HEDDEN RELATES HIS STORY.
HE DENIES THAT HE SwINDLED
ANYONE.
Bays His Employer Simply Refus-
ed to Acknowledge His
Contracts.

In recent issue of the Record
Union" appeared an account of the
arrest in San Francisco of Howard +.
Hedden on warrant issued at the in
stance of j. p. Dalton of this city,
charging him with having obtained
money under false pretenses.
While in this city some time ago
young Hedden solicited subscriptions
and advertisements for an alleged
sporting publication in San Francisco
called the Review He gave receipts
Tor the same, representing himself to
be an authorized agent for the afore-
mentioned alleged sporting publca-
tion.
AS it turned out, J. P. Bean, the ed
dtor of the publication referred to, re-
pudiated the subscriptions and adver-
tisements taken in this city by Hedden,
and believing that he had been buncoed
out of his dollar Dalton caused the lat
fer'S arrest.
Howard F. Hedden is in the City
Prison, having been brought from San
Francisco by Deputy Sheriff Bailey
Hedden tells the ''other side" of the
story, and tells it in a plausible,
straightforward way.
To a Record Union reporter he
tracted with Editor Bean to work on
the Review six months on commits.
sion. The publication, he said, was
not paying, and it's editor could pay no
salary, but agreed to allow him 80 per
cent. on all advertisements and sub
scriptions In proof of his statement
that he was so employed, and that he
was an authorized agent for the sport
ing sheet, young Hedden produced a
September copy of the same, in which
was a paragraph stating that he had
been employed and would remain with
the Review for six months.
Hedden said he took in a lot of adver-
tisements in San Francisco and brought
Bean much business. When he came
to drum up custom in Sacramento Bean
collected for the San Francisco adver-
tisements, and when he (Hedden) re-
turned, he and Bean came together and
mixed up on the streets and were both
arrested for disturbing the peace.
According to Hedden's story, Bean
then refused to accept the Sacramento
subscriptions and advertisements, and
created any amount of disturbance in
order to get the former to sever his con-
nection with the publication.
Bean" said Hedden knew I was
perfectly straight, or he would have
caused my arrest himself. He knew
he could not make a case against me,
as I had acted squarely with him, but
by refusing to accept the Sacramento
business 1 had done he knew he could
get me into trouble here. If you wish
to understand how bitter-Bean is
against me Just look at the January
number Of the Review"
Hedden produced copy Of the Janu-
airy number Of the publication, and it
showed for itself. Nearly one-ffth OF
It's space was devoted to roasting him.
1t seems that there are two sides to
the question of Heddens arrest, and
If his story is true Dalton may have
cause for complaint against Bean, but
apparently none against the young man
in the City Prison.
It is Just like some Of our people
There is a class who will patronize
strangers when they would not spend a
cent with a home concern that might
do them some good.
If stranger comes to town and rep
Tesents himself as q collector Of bad
accounts he can certainly depend on
having plenty of business intrusted to
him. while local collectors, who are re-
sponsible men, are not patroniZed. II
the scheme be some fake publication
the canvasser easily gets money for
advertisements or subscriptions from
people who never advertise in their
home papers and seldom subscribe for
them.
If the stranger puts on style" and
talks Of going into business here he
has little difficulty in obtaining goods
on credit, and often money loans. The
investors rarely fail to get swindled,
but they are usually ready to do BUSH
ness with the next man that comes
along.