Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-01-05

er letter from Adolfo Roldan Hafsos,
covering nearly four pages and closely
written, telling Of his sickness and
probable death from wounds received
in the scrimmage with the police.
He had l2,40S francs on his person
| when arrested, but that money was
sent to Paris on demand OF the
French government because OF his
supposed connectiO ion with the Panama
! frauds.
He lacks money to pay his spanish
fines and is fearful that his valuable
baggage will be sold to pay his prison
debt, and the baggage contains all
his valuable papers and certificates of
deposit for nearly half million, and
in order to avoid this danger he i'm
plores his Canton relative to send
him $500 90 to pay his fine and in re-
turn the prison chaplain will take
the valuable papers and the beauti-
full maiden to Canton where Mr..
Hafsos can adopt the girl and become
possessed of one quarter of his daugh-
ters wealth-something over one
hundred Thousand dollars.
The poor fellow is afraid he will
die before he gets the money from
Canton. Ie says in closing his May
letter: II pray God to give me life
enough to receive your reply that
shall let me die with all tranquility
and great hope for my daughters fu-
ture. Praying you to draw me out
soon of the anxiety with which l
will await your answer l remain Sir
Yours very atfectiOnabiIity.
How horribly he murders the
Kings English can be noted by the
last word quoted.
During this correspondence the
prison chaplain gets in his work, and
then the beautiful maiden writes a
letter and sends her picture and it's
the picture of very beautiful girl,
handsome enough to make any man
risk $500 for the privilege of adopting
her. She is dressed in white and
wears the Spanish headgear and veil
of the wealthy, and looks as il she
might be Spanish princess, but
signs her name MARY Roldan Bon
net" She evidently forgot the
"Hafsos" and her father didn't say
she had married Bonnet
1t was not to wondered that Mr..
Hafsos of Canton lost faith in the
dear female relative at Madrid and
allowed her father to die without
getting that $500.
Some two months ago, a German
got Il letter from this same gang OF
swindlers and he secrete. departed
for Madrid going via Paris. He had
a friend in Germany continue his cor
respondence while he secured the aid
of the Madrid detectives and in time
was invited to call at certain ad-
dress with the money to relieve the
distress of the poor fellow who had
written his Canton relative. TO make
a long story short it is only necessary
to say that the entire gang was cap
tured in their gorgeously' appointed
offices with their bogus seals and cor
respondence, and they are actually in
Jail now.
A number of prominent business
men in Sioux City received letters
from a Madrid prisoner who had a
beautiful daughter and slathers Of
wealth, but they were as indifferent
as Mr.. Hafsos and allowed the bag
gage to be sold and the girl to remain
among strangers and the poor devil
to die in prison.
Thousands of such letters have
been sent to prominent men through
out the United States and Europe.
and the Madrid gang evidently found
many willing to adopt a beautiful
girl and fortune, for the swindlers
were living like Spanish grandees
when arrested.