The daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1906-1907, 1907-04-19
The Man Who Sought the Puo''e'ey
Appointment was Really Edmon0
A. nopple

The incident relative to the at
tempt of a man calling himself Johh
Wilson to secure the appointment OF
Chairman of the Publicity Board was
closed some time ago, as lar as the
Appeal was concerned, but out OF con-
sideration for Hon. JOHN Sparks, we
deem it our duty to give the pubic
something of his record and past
performances.
His name before he came to Nevada
was Edmond J. KOpple and we have
in our possession a certified copy OIL
a legal document in which he sWore
to Kopple In this affidavit he was
securing a divorce from his vile, |
Mary Kopple, and he had to swear to
his true name to make the divorce
legal.
During the controversy over the
attempt of the Reno newspapers 10
force him on the Governor he suddenly
disappeared and the Reno papers an
nounced that he had gone to Europe
and would soon return to Nevada to
take up publicity work.
They knew better than this and
must have known the real reason OF
his hurried departure from Reno
If they did not the Appeal will give
them the reason.
Il Keno
Brewing Company. He came there
some months before and asked Tor a
lob He was willing to work for lit
tie or nothing he said in order to
learn the brewing business.
They gave him job and he SEEM
ed to be learning the business very
rapidly. One day he told the man
ager that he could sell nice block
o. brewery stock at high figures for
cash and was willing to handle the
deal On a commission. He got the
permission and one day came into
the brewery with S37 600 and demand
ed the delivery of the stock.
The money was received and the
stock delivered.
It presently transpired that the
money paid for the stock belonged
to Mrs. Lizzie Belz and he had IN
duced Louis BelZ her son, to get hi
mother to buy the stock as an III
yestment.
SO far so good. There was nothln
the matter with that transaction, e1
cept that he had the stock MADE ou
in his own name and proposed |
keen the stock while Mrs. Bek furr
ished the money
The Brewing Company sent A
torney Boyd after Whitson to comp'
him to deliver the stock to the rl9h
ful owner. but he merely laughe
merrily in Boyd's face and asked MI
how he proposed to get the stoc
away from him when 1t was mat
ont in his name. start your SUI
Start YOUR suit he kept saying.
II am not going to start any suit;
said Boyd Il am going to have W
indicted for a criminal onense ai
stick YOU in the penitentiary. Iha'
what 7 am going to o with YOU
This was more than the fellow n
bargained for and he surrender
the stock at once. After which I
matter was properly adjusted
This opened the eyes OF the bre
erv people to the character OF I
fellow and they began to inveslss
his accounts with the company
found that in various ways ne Il
managed to annex the sum
s194s47 cents in less than tni
months service.
He had run a lively account a
taken comissions over and ABOVE
SALARY to which he was not EMIT
and done various pieces OF Dusln'
without authority. Part of the amo'
was of course for salary ana leg
mate expenses and the rest pl
graft.
They at once placed the matter
the hands of their attorney, Mr.. b
to recover the money from kolpl
alias Whitson, but the man got W
of what was coming and sudde
migrated from Reno.
This is all that the Appeal can
sent to the public regarding the
of which we can present def