The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-02-25
Extradition Papers for E. l. Rosen-
feldt Not Yet Issued.
PROSECUTION TO BE PUSHED.
RosenfeIdfs Lawyer Calls on the
Prosecuting Attorney and says
That the snow and lee Concern ..
a Legitimate One, but McEiroy In
Seattle and Prove That Fact.

+. /. Eosenfeidt. manager % the Snow
and Ice Transportation Company. VIII
be brought back from Portland. unless
his attorneys are able 70 defea; the ef-
forts o. Prosecuting Attorney McElroy
and his assistant, John Il. Hart At
torney Stout. % Portland. who = one OF
Manager E0sen:eidt's legal representa-
tiyes, arrived in the city yesterday after-
noon and called upon SIR. AcElroy IN
company with A -. Warner. Ar. Stout
said that ths Snow and Ice TrAnsporta-
ton Company was legitimate concern.
and that 1t would work q great hardship
on Mr. Rosenfeldt IL ne were compelled
20 leave his business 70 come 70 Seattle
and answer the charge OF obtaining money
under false pretenses. a charge THAI Mr..
Stout considered unwarEanted.
Mr.. McEiroy said that If the concern
was a legitimate one he desired Dir. Ho-
senfeidt 10 come TO Seattle and show to
the court that there was 10 fraud
Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Fulton
will so to Olympia this morning with the
extradItIoB papers 10 bring kos-nfeIa.
back. II Is probable that the papers Will
be forwarded to Deputy Sheriff a. q
Lane in Portland. whore the case Will be
heard tomorrow. IL would appear from
this thai there Is a great pFobs, billy Of
the preliminary examination OF local
agent j. II. Smiley and his assistant.
Philip Hanna, being continued.
new complaint against Smiley. Han
TIA and Manager Eoscnfeldt was filed IN
Justice Austln's court yesterday after
noon. The charge Is the same a. III the
original but enters iato details The
ali
IL would appear that Mrs. Cronin who
caused tho arrest OF Smiley and Hanna,
was made to believe that the snow and
ice trains had been operated and We're
being operated, and that Joseph Ladue.
the founder of Dawson. was the pcssi-
dent Of the company Mrs. Cranins af-
hdaylt accompanies the new complaint
In her affidavit Mrs. Cronin says she
IL n years old. and that on February Il
sne visited the place Of business Of the
Snow and Ice Transportation Company
where she Etct j. K Smi.ev and Phinp
Hanna. who acted fer the company. and
at the inst.gaiton Of T.. l. Rosanfeldt
They represented 10 her tEat RoacnfcIdt
was the manager of the company ard
THAI Joseph Iadue was president They
further represented that Rosenfeidt had
been ana was conducting a locomotive
ana train of cars over the snow and ice
passing from Pyramid harto. ia Alaska
To Dawson. thai they had power 10 sci.
tickets and transportation from Seattle
hy boat 10 Pyramid harbor. aud fr2u.
that plac. to Dawson 10y steam locoma-
tive power and cars. that one certain
picture then and there presented 10 Min
ME Cronin was a true aud correct picture
OF moving locomotive. with train OF
cars attached. passing over the snow and
ico from Pyramid harbo- 10 Dawson: that
these representations were false and made
Tor the purpose OF cheating anu aefraud-
ing Minnie Cronn.
Mr.. cronin says she relied on the
representations and tho statement that
Joseph ladue Was the president OF tho
company. and Interested Win +. + Ro-
acnfeldt
The affidavit further asserts that on
FEBRUARY u and u Roacnfeidt was lu Sc
attic and Instructed Smiley and Hanna
80 10 the characte~ Of the representation
they should make Itust ufeldt had fuU
knowledge OF tho statements made bv
smiley and Hanna and had general CON
duet OF the business. that he furnished
the rooms. literature and picture and
caused them 80 be distributed. that ho
caused the name 81 JOSEPH Laaue 10 be
printed as president of the Snow and Ics,
transportation Company. and that an az
these things were doNe with intent 70 ie-
fraud Mrs. CFoDin Hna others