The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-08-03
The MYSTERY
OF LUBEC..
Detective Phclan and a
Lawyer Hustling.
REPLY TO PRES. RYAN,
Phelan Challenges Him to Produce
Jernegan's Check.
THE SALT WATER GOLD swINDLH
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pheIan. the detective who has figured
so prominently in the affairs OF the Kew
p. II. Jernegan and of the Electroiyuc
Marine Salts company comes 10 the
front again today, and pronounces the
statements made by President Ryan OK
the company. as far as they concerheu
himself, as false. Regarding tne checA
of $500 which Ryan claimed he gave
Jernegan, and which he said came pack
after being cashed. bearing Phelan's
Endorsement. Phelan says he never saw
the check, and he defies Ryan 10 pro-
duce n.
Phelan said: "Ryan does not know
me Jernegan never introduced me to-
RYAN, and Ryan never spoke to me In
his life" Regarding the statement
made by Ryan that Phelan had pushed
a note containing $500. and begging 10
be let into the company, under Jerne-
gan's door In Providence the night tnat
experiments were being made down the
bay. Phelan says there is not the
shadow of truth in the accusation.
PHELAN AT LUBEC.
/ Mr RYAN says that, according to the
| statements of Mr.. Pierson. who is the
| manager at North Lubec. Me-, fnelan
| is at present at Lubec and very busy IN
| hustling about the town upon pusiIess lsa .
Of his own, of which Mr.. Pierson mas
no personal knowledge. Phelan and ms
comma MON, a lawyer, are at present the
| nnvstery of Lubec. Everybody is specu-
lating upon the next move or TINS par,
and all are eagerly asking, VINO VIC
the next to be arrestedT
DUMMY DYNAMO STORY.
The officers of the company do not
lplace any faith in the story concerhins
the dummy dynamo" which was start
ed at Lubec. and II. III. Jones, who was
alleged in the story to be the eiectriciam
| ,vhT worked the dummy apparatus,
and who has departed from Nortn
Lubec, is said by the officers OF the
company to have had absolutely notn'
ling to do with connecting up III" ri.
| DYNAMO was put in by Portland eiec.
| tric company. Some time later whel
| a man was wanted to 60 to Lupec 10 u'
| some general work, the onicers OF th'
| company at the home office sent wore
down to a Boston firm tnat tney wan.I'
r.. III. Jones, who had been IN the EN-
nIov OF the electrical firm about lou
days. was sent down to Lubec, he oil
| the work and finished up In Few DAYS
WANT TO GET JERNEGAN.
The Office of the district attorney \
| Boston has been alive with an unusua
hustle since the disappearance OF Jer
| negan and Fisher, and the Frenc
! treaty has been paved over and studie
upside down and crossways in order {
and 81 clause which will permit OF IN
extradition OF Jernegan. 1t has pee
, found that he cannot be extradite
upon the charge of obtaining mone
. upon false pretences but IL nas ais
o been ascertained that he can be es
tradited upon the charge OF embezzlt
2 ment. Lawyer Melvin o. Adams na
spent many weary hours studying IN
case. His frequent and busy confel
ences with the district attorney nav
Z kept that office hard at work Tr
: grand jury is at present In session, ar
q | II may be given an opportunity TO col
q sider the matter on Saturday. lf De
negan and Fisher are indicted, SON
means will possibly be. devised Tor 8
i curing their arrest and extradition;
: The present pastor Of the Second Bal
"A fiat church Of Newport having stat'
= that the Rev. w. F. Arlington w,
- never pastor OF that church, wishes q
q statement corrected. He says that q
- REV. Mr.. Arlington was pastor OF q
- | First Baptist church Of Newport fro
- August /, 1892, until January !, lSs4'