Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-07-09
NO CONFIDENCE IN THE MAN.
ssllef is That He Will Not Return
70 Salt Lake or Utah Of
His Own Choice.
HAS Been Going the Same Rounds IN
The City of Culture and Beans
As Pursued Here.

what the next chapter is TO be In the
continued serial Of the adventures IN
SAIL lake and Boston Of one Beresford
Hone people are beginning to wonder.
The game. It seems. is almost up, and
net OF evidence is collecting out Of
which Mr.. Hope cannot wriggle, unless
mspv assertions OF his prove to be
tusr than they seem TO be. and he ac-
ually receives backing from sources
that now appear TO exist only In Thin
air. The conviction is growing with
added evidence that Hope Is
Simply a smooth a very smooth
man, and the conviction has
now reached to several OF those who
most seriously considered Mr.. Hopes
first assertions, and who expressed
faith readily IN response to letters a
credentials, which stenographers IN
Hopcs Office afterwards declared were
made 10 order, and never came through
the mails at all. as claimed,
Ezra I. stevenson a brother-in-law
OF DR.. c. y. Wilcox, and one OF those
who became interested In Hopes VEN
lures here, returned to his desk at the
Deseret National Bank this morning.
lie had been absent two weeks, looking
Mr Hope up IA Boston and checking
assertions made by him.
MR.. sTEvENsoN's TRIP.
When seen by the News" Mr.. Ste
yenson was not glowing in his tributes
10 the honesty OF Mr.. Hope. He was
not anxious to say much more. IN fact
than that he was sorry at the turn
things were taking. and that while his
confidence had been badly shaken, there
was still a chance for MI Hope to
make good. This however he did not
consider very probable chance.
What was Mr.. Hope doing?' was
Suggested 10 Mr. Stevenson.
Well he replied. 'he was busy
here with his plans. John A. Bagley
vas with him and both ne and Mr..
Bagley were very well satisfied. and
have faith IN Mr.. Bagley. | had long
talk with Hope. told him all | had
heard about him that was not straight.
and he seemed to be able 20 hold his
own. He declared he was coming back
here IN the near future, and that he had
by no means quit the country.
WILL HOPE COME BACK?
When asked as TO the time OF this
Interview Mr. Stevenson stated 1t was
before the exposure here Of many
things Mr.. Hope had done and that
several damaging pieces Of evidence
had not been submitted TO him. II
harmed more from the Salt Lake ps-
perS on returning said Mr.. Steven
son, than | knew about the charges
while away"
DO you think Mr.. Hope sim intends
10 come back. that is OF his own free
Will?' was suggested and Mr.. Steven
son declared he hardly knew what TO
say. His faith IN Hope had been badly
shattered, but Il was still Is)t too late,
he thought, for Hope 10 fight his way
out Of the corner he seems to have got
into,
GOING TO EUROPE.
To the Boston newspapers, however,
since Mr.. Stevenson left Hope has
made the statement that he leaves on
Saturday next for Europe, and this
change in his plans is accounted ,Or
here, by the exposure OF the apparent
foundations on which Hope was work.
Ing HIS plan II is now thought, was
lee niiliz. both his Utah options and his
English companies, as assets in making
DIS real killing among Boston hnan-
GERS.
THE SAME OLD ROUNDS.
With a suggestion Of owning millions
and representing many more millions
be secured ready entrance into Boston
society enjoyed a card az the Univer-
Ely club. was dined by General Nelson
A. Niles, and as Mr.. Stevenson reports
was very busy on his schemes and
pans In the hig bean eating city. Wha,
VIZ mature Of these, the present week
WI disclose, and people here are anx.
lousy waiting for the news.
Another query into the standing 4
Hopes English syndicate has beet
made and the usual result has been
achieved. II Is In the form Of an an.
sNef nat the company has never heard
or The query was made this time by
ihe peseret National bank. President
T. ). Hills OF that institution stated
lM morning that his bank had cabled
ls london correspondent. inqulrlng
mo The standing OF the British Amer.
gan Securities company. from whom
Hope exhibited letters while here. Tn,
answer was that so far as known In
london, no such company was IN ex.
isicnce