Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-10-21
SAM PICKETT
OUT ON BONDS.
Oa.and.On Theatrical Manager
Breathes Air of Freedom
Once Again.
SOME MORE OF HIS VICTIMS.
Salt Lake Dentist Has an Experience
OF o.ief But Expensive Charac'
,n With Dramatic Promoter.

Sam Pickett, the off-and-on theatre
,ol manager who Is alleged to have
vwindled number OF would-be
,hosnlans In Salt Lake, has been re-
,oased on boni Of $500 in Denver
nending his trial in the United states
circuit court there, Pickett was ar
rostod on Friday by the United States
authorities for fraudulent use OF the
mills along the same lines in which he
INDUCED in i,,Utah when he was max
,ne arrangements to stage an extra
,.oganza at Saltar lie was engaged
IN The same pastime when arrested in
Denver.
From advices that have reached this
clty there were quite number OF
Young people in Denver who were
caught in Sam Pickett's "big salary
tron After relating the circumstances
su,rounding n pretty little romance in
which n victim named Wilson, who had
faIien I'm love with Woodworking Dem
vor girl who had put up good coin for
tbe privilege of attending the Pickett
rehearsala and incidentally earning
,ame and fortune on the stage, the
Denver Post Of Sunday goes on to re-
late how Wilson denounced Pickett az
one Of his rehearsals I'm front OF the
entire company, and then tells OF u
second case In which Cupid figured az
follows,
Arthur y. Hughese connection with
picketts company may terminate IN
another romance Members OF the or
eapi2ation now say that all that kept
youne Hughes from losing money on
he deal was his liking Tor Miss Eunice
Kingsbery. another girl imposed upon
An emissary of Pcketts got acquaint-
cd with Hughes, who Ia wealthy
Young ranchman with valuable prop
erty al Rocky Ford. and stops when
In town az 360S Williams street He
brought the latter 10 Pickett, and Pick
Ell, In a burst OF confidence told
Hughes that he liked his ways and
would let him into a partnership upon
payment Of $3.50 cash. Hughes said he
would investigate, and went into
watch rehearsals. He witnessed a
number OF them. and was attracted by
Miss Kingsberys grlish beauty and
gentle department. One afternoon be
strolled home with her and her mother,
After that he did the same thing with
considerable regularity. Now II is told
by p close friend 20 both that he told
her he was going TO invest in the part
nershp, and that thereupon Miss
Kingsbery partly unburdened her Sc
cret troubles and warned him that she
had not been raid a cent OF salary In
weeks and that a man so slow to pay
honest obligations might not he de-
sirahle business partner Hughes saw
the point and Pickett lost his chance
Ii Is said also that he wanted TO make
amends to Miss Kngsbery for Picketts
failure, but that the latter produly re,
fused and that Hughes then avowed
that he would yet find a way to repay
her goodness Their friends say 1t VII
not be hard to guess how he means u
do H.
SALT LAKE VICTIM
Still another victim Of Picketts Is
DR. Carter Hargadeen, Salt Lake city
dentist. who came all the way TO Den
yer to Join the company and then was
replaced by another man named Blu
ford. whose fare Carter had paid.
At Colorado Springs Pickett and Q
woman named Kaylor. called In the
show the Spanish beauty, left with al