The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-10-25
CAY ROTH is
M0URNED FOR
Disappears With $3.50 of Mrs.
KessIer's Money.
ASKS POLICE TO FIND HIM
PLACED FAITH IN CLAIRVoY.
ANCE AND A LUCKY STONE.

kin LEASE, please Mr.. Policeman,
won't you get me my money
back" walled Mrs. NJ. Kessler,
as she chung cOnvulsively TO the rail-
ing at the police station and turned an
appealing, tear-stained face toward
Detective Gillespie.
What is the trouble, madam"
asked the detective, as he came for
ward to the desk, hat in hand.
Il want you to arrest that viiiain'
Roth said Mrs. Kessler, her sorrow
turning 10 anger. He has gone TO
Butte with $3.50 of my good money. and
want IT," Then she told her troubles
TO the policeman.
From her story, it appears that she
is the victim of one Carl II. Roth.
man, who, attired in high silk hat
and a long Prince Albert coat. was
wont to disport himself in front Of the
Kenyon hotel and in other prominent
places, for the benefit of the fair sex.
With an American Beauty rose in the
lapel of his coat, and a Turkish cigar
cite held lightly in his glove-clad fin
gers, Mr.. Roth would attempt con-
quests of the fair sex by stepping in
front of women who were passing
along the street and attempting to OBJ
trude his personality on them. Re
pulsed as he often was, he was not ruiz
fed, but not so with sundry husbands
and friends of the women whom he had
spoken TO. and many threats were
made against him.
Met Mrs. Kessler.
Roth met Mrs. Kessler, whom he per-
suaded to ascend TO his elairvoyant
parlors at 366 South West Temple
street. He told her the usual line OF
stuff. about being the only clairvoyant
on the face of the earth who could tell
her past, present and future, and Mrs.
| Kessler believed him because she was
a spiritualist and she knew such things
We're possible. Consequently, when he
pulled a small box out of his coat
| pocket and showed her a magic stone
| bearing the imprint of King Solomon s
| seal, she believed that he could, in
| street parlance, deliver the goods,
and she trusted him.
This stone has most extraordinary
/ powers said Roth, as he stroked the
fuzz on his silk hat. III it comes in
contact with money it is a certain
thing that it has the power, through
other arts of which / alone am the
master, TO cause the money to double
| itself. 1t has been tried often and new
ier failed-and, by the way, have you
any money!
81 have $3.50" answered Mrs. Kessler
difidently.
THAT is enough" said Roth. ''You
will now give me the money and I will
seal il up in this chamois skin sack
together with the lucky stone. and
placing It under my pillow. viii pass
| into a trance. While in this condition
] will consult the spirits of long dead
financiers and viii learn a method OF
doubling your capital within a week
Faith Began to Waiver.
Mrs. Kessler did as she was advised
| and the money changed hands. tn,
clairvoyant babe her a courteous good
night, and she passed to her home Il
l dream of millions. On reaching there
1 her dreams for some reason becam,
/ disturbed, and she hogan to doubt the
efficacy of the medium TO double he
/ money in forty-eight hours. This
| doubt grew so strong that she called
a policeman. and together the two wen
to the rooms of Roth TO view him in hi!
| trance.
When they arrived there Mrs. Kess
! Ter made a terrible discovery Sht
/ found that Roth had been translated
while in his trance. and that her $45l
and the lucky stone had been trans
! lated" with him. Notwithstanding hel
! great grief, she made inquiries anC
i found that Roth had probably gone Il
Butte, Mont, together with her money
and that the translation" had beer
| accomplished by the Oregon Shor
Line. Then she went to the police sta
/ ton with her story of frances and
translations, and the police are doinf
| what they can for her. Meanwhile she
weeps over her vanished faith in spirit.
] ualism.