Weekly Arizona journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1903-1908, 1907-12-18

'"c smooth imposter who claims dam.
ages in this action had flooded tho
.ou"'ry with his so.callcd "stock.v
'eavlng victims Of his aeartless manipu.
'a''on IN possibly every state in the
union.
anu now did he acquire these claims,
lie tells you that they formerly he.
'onged to old man Ferguson. the old
pioneer whom everybody knows. He
'ens you that he-confessedly a auack
ana without the license that every hon.
est and regular practitioner mas and
must have charged poor old man
Ferguson $500 for treating his wife 3
eyes-his wife being blind. And that.
In settlement of this fce-a fee for
ma'trcatment that probably left tho
eyes OF the poor lady worse than they
were before treatment, he took over
this group of claims.
do you say, or will counsel for the
plaintiff dare TO say, that We nave in.
troduced no evidence showing that
these claims were not as valuable n,
claimed by plaintiff in his artful pros.
pectuses' l am willing to rest tbi,
case very largely on the testimony Of
D'nsdalc himself, and when he saws
that he paid Mr.. Ferguson nothing for
these claims excepting his pretended
services as quack practitioner, We
need offer no further proof as to their
utter worthlcssncss. You will remem.
Der that he got thcm-as he says
from old man Ferguson, one Of the
shrewdest judges Of a mine in this
county. II Mr.. Ferguson, after spend.
ing $4,000 on them ,as Dinsdalc says
he did, was willing to give them up to
a charlntan and swindler in considera.
ton Of malpractice on his wifc's eyes,
you would think IL absurd for us to
bring witnesses mere to demonstrate
their lack Of value. They are not
worth the location notices by which
they are held. Even the two claims
that Dinsdale afterward bought from
Mr.. Atkinson-the Pioneer and Lucky
Boy-have had TO be returned TO Mr..
Atkinson because they did not pay MIN
for them.
But my friend Hammond says his
distinguished client, he Of the famous
Dinsdale Health Vibrator" did not
make any money out Of the sale Of this
stock-that he never harmed a hair of
anyonc's head. Now that is probably
true. He was not treating hair nc
was treating, or maltreating, eyes. II
he had been treating hair, counsel
could not claim he had never harmed
hair. But he says he has not made
dollar out Of this. don't know
what he has made, or mas not made
but what did he do with the 100000
shares Of the Little Brother stock that
he sold and traded broadcast over the
union2 The records OF his company, In
mis- own handwriting, show that he has
scattered this fraudulent stock far and
wide probably to rich and poor. The
: complaint of Carl Theis, n stakeholder
offered in evidence in this case, shows
that he was defrauded out of abou
' g., 60O-probably all the money he hat
in the world. And what was the frs
step taken toward Fleeing Tneisf III
was given one Of the lying, glittcrini
prospectuses written by the cye-ioctor
. and being honest himself, he believes
the fabrications 1t contained, and In
vested his money. How many NOR
did the same thing, and for the sam
/ reason, We can only know as the shame
1 full story appears on the crooked an
/. confused records rs kept by the plain
!. tiff and his niece. They may be hun
G dreds, however, who have been victim
O lied even as those whose names appea
4 in evidence before us, but 1t might TAX
Il
o ten years 10 find them all. With loos
stock certificates galore, an extra sea
= and q ready pen, no could Hood th
q whole American continent with stoc
I and he had all of these convenience
/. at hand, as the evidence shows. Tia
n he could use them to advantage appear
o by the fact that he managed to issu
G over 1000 shares Of stock in con
It pany whose capital was limited
>. S750,OO0 and he was ready to file
q order for more "loose" stock certil
n Gates. Truly, a tribute to the efiieac
\. Of the "Dinsdale Health Vibrator.
70 Was the Journal Miner justified
o. it's criticism Some Of you gentlemc
= are miners, and there is no class
Il men held in higher esteem, or In who
Ia this community has deeper interes
= than you, who by honest toll, capah
10 management, and square dealing, a
|, paving the way for the profitable