The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-07-13
HOPE HAS FLED;
ELUDES POLICE
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ELUUES fULlOE
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suspicious of him and his enterprises
from the first, and demanded unmis
taxable proof of his genuineness before
he would be regarded in the light of
| a client
After falling to satisfy the firm of
his reliability, Hope became lax and
failed to keep his appointments, and
the law firm lost interest in his case,
| except to be anxious to nave the mys-
terry of his identity solved.
Experience Of Salesman.
! So far as is known Hope tried to
| induce but one man in Boston to all
him in selling his securities, though
| he advertised in local papers for, a
| high class security salesman who was
familiar with western mining invest
ments and came we'll recommended.
This man, II. w. Barry, saw him sew
erai times, but not liking the looks of
the proposition dropped out.
| The first / know of Hope" said he,
| was when 1 saw an advertisement
calling for high class stock statesmen
who knew western propositions. The
! advertisement was not among the
financial advertisements where those
of the kind usually are, but ia the help
wanted columns. / answered, and
received a letter bearing a printed
heading. / read:
| International Trust company. Cap
ital, $250,c9O.
This much and a list of officers
was in type. On it in typewriting was
| For Utah and Idaho, Al Mount YER
non street, Boston,
My first thought was that the adj
dress given was a queer place for the
| headquarters of a big concern, and
the typewriter part of the latterhead,
which the printer failed to complete
for some reason or other, looked funny.
1T was he who had met ME at the
door. He took me upstairs and said
he had advertised for men,, and asked
ne what 1 could do.
Il told him / could sell securities
if they were al! right. II was hard,
! however, to get much out Of him. He
talked big schemes and millions, which
did not brighten me at all, but it was
| hard to get him down to details Usu-
| ally promoters are the most VOluble
of men, but with this man it was neces-
Sary almost to crOSs-question him to
get what little l did.
Member of Parliament"
He told me he was Sir Beresford Hope
and member of parliament. / thought
this funny, as he could not we'll be absent
for the seven or eight months he said he
| had been If he was member of the COM
mons, and | asked him how he did it.
! HE said he had arranged pairs on ev-
cry question likely to come up covering
his stay here and proposed trip to
| Egypt. On his return to England he said
h.a i
other topics, and gave a list of places
| where he was to talk. Besides this, he told
me that he had been in parliament sew
eraI years representing the constituency
of West KenSington which his father had
represented before him. He knew his
| England all right, for | am an English
man myself and know many members of
parliament, but some of his statements
seemed queer. He seemed TO have money
and was apparently very anxious TO show
me that he was prepared to spend it.
! Finally he made an engagement to
meet Bagley at the United States hotel.
went there as agreed, but before l met
Bagley Hope took me to one side and
| asked me not to say anything to Bagley
about meeting him through an adver-
tisement Then he presented me as that
gentleman whom l told you of meeting
| at dinner the other night
'Bagley seemed to be a nice enough
! chap, but he did not seem to be on the
inside of Hopes deals. We talked for a
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pany, which was the eGheme he wanted
me to handle. and finally parted without
! arranging anything.
Dicker on Coal Stock.
Again I met him, and then he showed
me a bundle of shares of the company
stocks in big blocks amounting to $500, 600.
| He wanted me to sell II at 70 cents on the
dollar and retain % per cent of my sales.
The proceeds, he said, were to be used to
purchase a tract Of coal lands in Mexico
| twelve miles square. With the stock he
had fine collection of prints and lot
of data TO show how profitable the scheme
would be- The figures as to profits /
think would have been all right, providing
he had the coal to deliver, for / know
nothing as to that did not like the looks
| of things then. and | told him he offered
too mucn for selling such a good PROPOSE
ton. He laughed and said / shouldn't OBJ
ject to being we'll paid He believed. he
said, in being generous when he could af-
this proposition. 1t looked good to me,
so / delayed in closing the deal until |
| could be sure of my man, for / did not
want to approach any of my customers
! with what was not all it was represented
| to me.
Warning Due to Herald.
That day l went to a downtown bank
ing house and looked up the companies
he said he represented. l also looked up
the parliamentary directory, Burke's Peer
4 age ana w no w no. 1 was sui think
ing when l saw that the people of Salt
| Lake had their doubts about the man.
Then L looked UP the New York papers,
and decided to drop him. l have not seen
him since.
MY impression of him was a younger
scion of the house of Hope; that is to say,
the son of a younger son. These sons are
| useful chiefly for prOspectuseS gotten up
by brainier men to separate the public
from their cash.
| 81 know he was not nObleman, for his
| card gave that away. If he were d bar
onet his card would have properly read
"Beresford Hope Bart if a knight
'Beresford Hope, KIT and he would not
have used the Sir Neither did he strike
me as a member of the Carlton club
That is the most exclusive club in the
world, and his is not the type one meets
there.
''Of Bagley formed good impression
AS I look at the thing now, Hope had
fooled him as he tried to fool me. / dc
not know that he fooled anybody here in
a money way, or that he got anybody to
try to sell his stock. But 1t seems nat
ural to suppose that he caught some one
through his advertisements"
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