The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-09-02
Stories and Gossip Concerning
Well Known Railway Officials.

of handwriting. Mr.. Shores makes no
pretensions to being an expert in this
line, but he has often succeeded where
supposed experts have failed.
i nave dealt with number Of cases
OF anonymous letter writing" unused
Mr. Shores the other daV and 1 have
invariably found that the person you
would least suspect is the very one to
suspect 1t is not the open enemy who
writes an anonymous letter. 1T is the
supposed friend
Il had a case in Colorado which IL
Illustrates that. A CIR in a hotel there
was being prosecuted with anonymous
letters which said the viIest things
about her. The letters were written IN
bold, disguised hand, and they con-
tlnu- d to come with such frequency that
the girl became sick from worry, and
hnaily she was driven completely in
sane. She was taken to the home Of
her most intimate friend. who had SYM
pathized with her when she had re-
ceived each letter, and had cried with
her over them.
8 worked on that case for weeks and
months. | got ey cry specimen of hand
writing l could, and made careful COM
parsons, but it appeared to be of no
Use. W lille L was away on business one
time they arrested a girl in my alb
Sence, charged her with writing the
letters and ran her out o. town. 1 was
convinced she was innocent and told her
50, ana worked harder Lhdn ever trying
to run down the mystery.
Il had the insane girl brought to my
house. and my wife looked after her.
Finally, when she became better, she
received letter from her intimate
friend. I looked at that letter, studied
the handwriting carefully, obtained
some more specimens, and it was not
long before l had found who was the
guilty PERSON. 1t was the very girl
who had cried with the other and pre-
tended 10 sympathize with her, but who
admitted to me when L cOnfronteob ner
with the proof that she had herself
been writing all these letters.
The reason for her course was the
same which causes many a crime
Jealousy. She had been a belle in the
set in which she moved and the other
girl had supplanted her. She was never
prosecuted, but she was forced to leave
town
President E. T. Jefery Of the Rio
Grande lines is one of the most demo-
cratic Of men. and that is one of the
reasons why he has the respect and
even affection of the men under him.
Mr.. Jeffery worked his own way up,
and is not ashamed of il. He entered
the employ of the Illinois Central road
as office boy and left it as general man
ager. He is just as open and frank in
his manner today as he was when he
was working for less than $40 a week.
President Jeffrey was one of the crea-
tors of the Worlds fair al Chicago. He
spent some time in Paris investigating
the Paris exposition, and his report
formed the foundation on which the
Worlds fair was reared. He was chair
man of the committee on buildings and
grounds, and the great manufacturers
building was his conception. At the
time Of the great Pullman strike in
1894, Mr. Jeffery was president of the
Denver & Rio Grande, and the personal
loyalty of the employees of that road
formed the greatest obstacle the strik-
ers met. When he was in Salt Lake
last week everybody who had business
with him, down to the section men.
could get his ear, their story was lis
tened to with attention, and they We're
given invariab bly, cour teous replies. That
has cen Mr.. Jeffery's rule ever since he
has been an executive officer of a rail-
road. His door is always open, and his
ear is never closed.