Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-19
VICTIMS DUPED
TO LAST Minute
BROWN GATHERED IN LARGE
SUMS BEFORE LEAVING
Private Secretary thinner VIII sleep
In Office Until Defaultine
Broker Is Brought
Back to City

II thinner. confidential clerk anu anu
nrivate secretary to the missing ooo
per cent broker" Harry ID. Brown, yes
terdav afternoon had a bed placSu III
the little room, 613, in the Union t,e
huiding. and intends to remain Inele
constantly until Brown Is proushl p"oN
to Los Angeles. ,o,+h in
Brown cost him 100000, was pusy al
Yesterday answering queries on lne
telephone as to whether Hurry-up
Harry had been located or not, put 70
ali the answer was given, 10 oevei- ;,
opments, but prospects Tor oro""
capture better" a+ar
Among those who passed the greauer M !
part of the day in the nttie eoo olilSe .so',9h w
w II Ramsey, who lost SioOV throoS "a !.
his dealings with Brown, and imagined
he was to secure a fortune as soon as
BROWN had succeeded in Scalplhs the
New York stock exchange.
Ramsey is positive that Brown nau
a large sum of money with MN wne1
he left Los Angeles, and that ne hao
the assistance OF inf1uentlal lrieius "
aid him in his esca"c. .oooo
Said Ramsey: 81 know OF $9Ooo that
Brown obtained Friday SATURDAY
before he left. Three thousand ne Sc
cured from an aged Los Angeles Wo-
man. the only money she naa III eile
world. and this he secured trlday; oat-
urday he visited a man VINO aiIeauy
had nlaced $4,000 WITH him to invest,
and secured an additional $4,000, to pro
feet the money which the investor uiu
not realize was already lost.
"From personal Investigations nave
found that Browns scheme was 10
leave a few dollars in the banks with
which he did business. Then Wnen MS
worthless checks were presented they
al rnd
funds" which did not make him legally
liable. as would have been the case IL
there were no funds at all.
Still Believes in Brown
81 still think that if Brown is given
an onnortunity he will try and make
good the money he owes, but l assure
vo,, II will be my last --eStment, Ior
I have learned a costly lesson
DIR. Nettie e. Hammond, who invested
a large sum of money with Brown ana
induced many of her friends to do IKE
wise. is anxious that Brown be caught
and punished.
"Rrown had the most convincing
manner of any person / ever met, ana
although on several occasions noticeu
slight Irregularities about the business
and called Browns attention TO then,
he explained them with such ease ana
apparent soundness that never
thought of them again.
'I would give every cent l nave 10
see Brown brought back to Los An
geles and forced to make restitution
to the persons who lost the money they
needed to live on.
''I do not think that Mrs. Brown was
aware of her husbands intentions to
run away. l talked with Mrs. Brown
at her home Wednesday night, and
from her conversation / believe she was
fooled the same as were myself and all
the rest. If she was not, she is clever
actor
"T have known both Mr.. and Mrs.
Brown for over a year, have been to
theater parties and dinners with them,
and I was as much interested in his
business as / thought he was, and he
had always used me squarely. 1t was
the confidence / placed in him, ! sup
pose, that blinded me to his real inten-
tions."
1t was learned yesterday that after
The Herald's expose the Hurst detec-
tive agency, that worked on the case
against Brown, sent ten men, one a
day, consecutively for ten days, to
Brown to get their monev and each OF
the ten was paid in full, but the elev-
enth man was put off without his
money, as Brown realized his treasury
was getting low. 1t is thought that
this action caused him to decide to
move and move fast.