The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-07-18
A BIT OF FLAeLER SCANDAL.
In Which the Magnet, a Pretty
Woman and Clerk Figure.

New YorkerD
It is the fixed policy of the oil crowd
in lower Broadway, and wherever else
they may happen to be, to keep out OF
the courts, and it must be said for them
that in this they succeed very We'll
considering their large and varied en-
gagements. But strange enough, Henry
NJ. Flagler, one Of the feathered chlet-
tains of the oil crowd, has, by series
of circumstances, gotten himself en-
| tangled in more law than he IS likely
to see the end Of in many a weary
month Mr.. FIagler is Il years old. He
WAS born in Cauadaigua county, this
state, IN 1850. When IA years old he
worked his passage to Buffalo on
board canal boat, and now ne can
ride from one end of the United States
to the other on railroads that he either
4 owns outright or in which he is a large
/ SUoczhOlder. There is not of course,
much in Florida in the way of railroad
or fine hotel property that Mr.. Flagler
/ does not own, and his holdings in the
( leading railroads OF the country are
enormous. In the recent railroad COM
/ binauons in the west the Rockefeller
I t'faClCr millions have played a large
: part. Mr.. Fiagler is not seen often
about the clubs of New York, and yet
I he is a member Of the Union League,
/ Metropolitan, City club, New York
! Yacht club LarChmOBt Yacht club and
| American Yacht club. He is also
member of the New England society.
/ Mr.. Flagler helped to suckle the infant
/ oil octopus. having been one of the
/ original oil Tefiners of Cleveland. The
/ firm was Rockefeller, Andrews & Flag
] Ter, and ct was the genesis Of the
/ Standard Oil company.
| Mr. Flagler has the distinction of be-
/ ing just now at both ends Of divorce
| litigation. In Florida he is petitioner
/ for a divorce from his insane wife. now
/ an Dr. MacDOnald's sanitaTium at
/ PleaSantViile. near White Plains, and
/ in the supreme court in This state he is
| named as one of the correspondents in
! the case in which E G. Foot seeks a
/ divorce from Mrs. Foot, and, incident
! ally, is suing for 100000 damages from
/ Mr.. F1agleT. TT is set forth in these
| court papers that Mr.. FIagler has be
| slowed as much as S400, 900 in money,
/ jewels and real estate on Mrs. Foot.
! One Of the gifts, a fine house in East
/ Flfty-seventh street, this city, rents for
/ loo a year. Other valuable property,
| including 81 900 in cash with which to
] furnish a fiat, is scheduled as coming
| from Mr.. Midas. the oil man, the pur-
| pose being to show his interest in the
/ lady. There is another correspondent
| mentioned in this celebrated case, who
| Us as poor as Mr.. Flagler is rich. and
! who has himself had some lively litiga-
| tiOn in which Mr.. Fla ler was con-
! spicuOUs- Mrs. Foot was also right in
| the Seething center of this, although
| she was personally in Europe at the
| time, where it was alleged by the law
yers that she was jOurneying at Mr.
! Midas expense, and with a view of
keeping away from the unpleasantness
OF broil in court.
| This was really a very interesting
| case, but, perhaps, because it was tried
[ 4 in
| chester county, the particulars did not
get to the. anxious public In this case
or in one of these cases.. H. Nal
den sued Mr.. F'lagler for SIS, S68.75, being
as he alleged. the difference between
I the amount which Mr.. Fla gler had paid
him for seventy-fve shares Of oil stock.
I and the real value of said stock This
stock today would lbe worth close to
600. Malden had been clerk in a
/ railroad Office in town. and met Mrs.
Foot at a boarding house kept by her
mother. They became good friends,
and Maiden suddenly developed into a
/ man With money to burn. and he pro-
ceeded to burn it along Broadway.
The seventy-five shares of oil stock
WAS one of the handsome gifts from
his lady friend, and he says that it
was in accordance with her wish that
he took the certificates to 26 Broadway
/ to have them transferred on the books
of the Standard OIL company in his
and come back in a day or two, and we
will have the transfer made" is said
to have been the instructions which
Maiden received at IS, and he acted ac-
cOrdingly. When he returned to the
temple Of mamTnOn he was told that
Mr.. Flagler wished to see him, and ne
was Ushered into Mr.. F'lagleE''s private
! den. There, according to Malden'S at
/ torney, the oil man gave the young
clerk what the police call the third de-
] naner
! CeTtifica ties. which he recognized as
once having been his own. Maiden
was as firm as a clerk could expect 70
he in the presence of Midas, and stOUtly
| declared his ownership of the property
10y virtue Of a gift from a wealthy lady
friend.
According to this authority there was
a monkey and a parrot time between
Maiden and Midas, continuing over
several days. Midas began by offering
to give $1,000 for the stock and drop the
whole matter. Maiden did not know as
much about oil values as he might, but
he had a sneaking notion that his oil
property was worth more. He wOuIdn't
sell at that figure. There were other
heated and interesting interviews, and
Midas raised the amount, S., 900 at a
| crack, until $40 900 was reached That
seemed a good deal of money to the
young clerk. and he accepted 1t. the
! certificates going back into the oil pot
By and by some one told Maiden that
he had sold too cheap, and, looking al
the tape, he thought SO himself. He
| went to an eminent lawyer in the
| Equitable building, who brought sui
I against Mr.. FlagleT to recover the diff
ference, SIS, S6S.5. In the meantime these
were glad and golden days for Maiden
and he was having more fun than {
! barrel of monkeys. He had a bank ac
count, and his checks were fyins