Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-04-08

capt." Bsllairs, Described as a
Shvwd SwindIer.
THEY SHOULD Be WATCHED.

Inc CltlZen taxes tnlS metnOu, III
connection with the item published
below, to warn the public in general
and especially our eastern friends to
| beware of the man who comes among
them selling shares in mining and
other companies and with glittering
tales of hidden wealth of the terri
tories.
1t is said upon the authority of men
who know that more wild cat" min
ing and other schemes are on the east
ern market today from New Mexico
and Arizona than any other section
of the United States, and many a resi-
dent of Cleveland, Toledo and other
OHIO towns have been persuaded to
make investments.
The article which The Citizen refers
to reads as follows:
Phoenix, Ariz., April captain E.
G. Bellairs, formerly correspondent for
the Associated Press in Cuba and the
Philippines, has been in Arizona for
several months and is nov connected
with various mining concerns. He has
been well received here, and, although
some of the ventures he has under
taken have not yet prospered as he
had hoped. nothing he has done has
attracted the attention of the police
or postal authorities. Now that his
past has been aired, a more rigid ex-
animation of his doings is being made.
C1nttp Ilnt1nfr, IL. ann nrn1f1avt
of the Wickenburg Mining, Smelling
& Developing company, which was in
corporated three months ago under
the laws of Arizona. In a glittering
prospectus, Captain Bellairs has re-
ferred to his service as a correspond
ent in Cuba and the Philippines and
to his friendly relations with officers
of high rank in the American army
and navy. He made a direct appeal
to officers having small means, call
ing upon them to take his securities
and promising quick and generous div
idends and other profits.
New York, April cit is worthy of
note that Captain e. G. Bellairs is
not a member of the Society of the
Caribbean, to which belongs every re-
putable newspaper correspondent hav-
ing a part in the late war with Spain.
His fellow workers looked upon him
as a mar of u%ndoubted parts, but with
out scruples and without reliability.
With little upon which to base their
suspicious, they left the favorite of
the army to work out his own destiny,
but there were signs of relief when he
was dropped from his responsible po-
sition before he had brought great dis
grace upon his profession.
General Leonard Wood, so long as
he remained in Cuba, was an ardent
friend of Bellairs. While all this was
occurring a picture Of Bellairs reposed
in that album prepared by Former In
spector Thomas Byrnes and also in the
rogues' gallery in police headquarters.
In this gallery Bellairs appears in the
company of an English swindler OF in
ternational fame. Sidney Lasalle,
alias Lord Beresford." Lasalle is No.
344 at police headquarters. Belln.rs,
who is known to the police as Charles
Ballentine, alias Ernest Allaine CHER.
ton, Is No. 346. OF the two Bellairs
is much more shrewd in appearance,
and it is said he is a much more clever
man. Bellairs is now about AZ years
old, but looks at least five years young
er. His entire career has been one of
deception and crime. Inspector Byrnes
paid him the compliment of describing
him as one of the most clever swind
lers ever sent to the United States
from England.