The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-03-24

DR.. ]. Eugene Jordan yesterday swore
to a complaint in Judge Cams court
charging DIR. e. F. Adams, Chicago
physician, and Capt. +. n. Handy, San
Francisco mariner, with obtaining 5000
under false pretenses. Dr. Jordan tells
a story that reads like many of the ia
nous swindles that have been perpetrated
since the beginning of the rush 10 Alaska
three years ago.
DR.. Adams is the man who claimed
to have been robbed of a large sum of
money on the steamship Roanoke last
year. About six weeks ago, DR.. Jordan
says, Adams came to him, representing
himself as the president of the Cape
Nome Mining & Trading Company. DR..
Jordan says that DR.. Adams told him
that his company had recently purchased
a two-thirds interest in the steamer Prof.
Morris, then lying at San Francisco
dock. DIR. Adams, DR.. Jordan claims,
told him that the steamer was owned
by Capt. f. N. Handy. who desired to
retain a one-third interest in her and to
sell a two-thirds interest for $50. CO., DR..
Adams DR.. Jordan claims, represented
that he had already paid $4,000 OF the
purchase price, but was unable to pay the
remaining $4,000.
His credentials were good" said DR..
Jordan last night, land l was willing to
advance the money to him. He repre-
class condition. with the exception of a
defective boiler. Being satisfied that we
could make at least s125,0 on the first
trip of the vessel | let him have 5000.
He told me he thought he could raise the
other 5000 himself AS security two
thirds interest in the vessel was to stand
in my name until the company could
realize enough to repay me the money
had advanced.
when the time came for him TO make
the last payment on tho vessel he repre-
scented TO me that he was still unable to
raise the money. This time he brought
Capt. Handy to corroborate his tale.
Handy told me that he was the owner
OF the vessel. and that 1t was In first-class
shape. / finally advanced the other 5000.
About ten days ago l sent Capt. ]. l..
Fisher to San Francisco to bring the
Prof. Morris to this city. In the mean
time the alleged company, of which
Adams was the head, advertised that
the Morris the name of which they had
changed to the Midnight Sun, would sail
for Nome at a given date.
when Capt. Fisher arrived In San
Francisco and examined the vessel he
Immediately wired me that she was rot
ten; that she had been condemned by the
government inspectors two years ago. and
that since that time she had been lying
in the boneyaFd-a worthless hulk. In
fact, Capt. Fisher told me that had bet
ter throw my money in the bay than to
invest II in that boat
Handy had left town when I received
Capt. Fishers message. but / confrohte
Adams. He didn't put UP n very plausi-
BILE excuse, and l told him / would have
him arrested for bunkoing me out OF
$4,000. Then | understand he went TO
third party, whose name l will not men
ton, and tried to borrow the money to
reimburse me. l am told that he con-
fessed 10 this man that he and Handy
had conspired to do me up. but that they
thought would go ahead and repair the
and take my chance on getting my money
out.
Two or three days after l saw Adams
he left town. once l understood that he
was in Tacoma, and now l am told he
had his wife In Victoria for several weeks
intending TO go there himself when he
had succeeded in plucking me. | am
also informed that Handy succeeded in
cheating Adams out OF considerable of
his share of the money that / gave him.
! made the complaint for 5000. because
by that method l could catch both Adams
and Handy. The latter was present
when made the last payment"
An effort Is being made 10 locate Handy
and Adams by the local police but their
whereabouts are unknown. II Is claimed
however, that Handy lis in San Francisco
and that Adams is in Victoria.
Or. Adams Is we'll known here He has
figured once as the promoter OF Cape
Nome railroad. HIS first plunge into
notoriety was when he and three other
men set up the claim last summer that
they had been robbed OF s25. 900 on the
Roanoke.