Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-06-02
SENDS THREATENING LETTERS TO WALTER DOUGLAS, MAN
 AGER OF COPPER QUEEN
Is EXPERIENCED AT REDoNDO
HAD BEEN TAKEN TO BISBEE AT EXPENSE OF COPPER QUEEN
 FROM THIS CITY


 who was sent from Globe to Bsbee, two years ago by the Salvation Army at the expense of the Copper Queen Min ing company, is taken from Bisbee paper and will. be of interest to those in this city who are familiar with the circumstances:
 An Associated Press Dispatch re- ceived here yesterday stated that Sam Leroux, charged with sending threat ening letters to Walter Douglas, general manager of the Copper Queen Mining company, in which he demanded the payment of $3,OOO,0O0, had been arrest ed near Redondo, suburb of Los An geles. Later a complaint charging Le- ioux with insanity was sworn out.
 When seen last night regarding the report Mir. Douglas had the following to say:
 "In the latter part of 1907 l re- ceived a communication from the Salva- tion Army in Globe, advising that one A. Leroux was in jail at that place, and was in destitute condition. He stated to the army officer that he had been injured in the Copper Queen mines some years ago and that recently, on account of the influence of the Cop per Queen with the local officers he had been arrested and beaten up, with the evident intent of getting rid of him.
 "I investigated our hospital records and ascertained that man of his name had sustained slight injury in the mines few years -bsfore, had spent few days in the hospital and had then resumed work but had left the employ of the company shortly afterwards.
 "In view of these conditions l wrote to the Salvation Army captain, forward ing money with which to purchase a ticket for Leroux to Bisbee. When Le- roux arrived I saw him personally on two or three occasions, and after com municating with his father, A. Leroux, of Apple Hill, Ontario, Canada, who desired that his son should come home, I offered to pay his expenses back to his family. Leroux would not accept this but made threats, both in writing and to diftrent persons about Bis bee. that if the Copper Queen did not pay him $3,000,000 he would fix my self and Dr. Shine. He demanded even millions and wrote that he would not accept $2,999,999.
 "Under these circumstances, and in few of the fact that his insanity was increasing from day to day, he was ar rested by the local officers, examined as to his sanity by Dr. Bacon and other medical men in Tombstone, and com mitted to the territorial asylum. "Some months ago the sheriff 's office was notified that he had made his es- cape from the asylum at Phoenix and in the latter part of April last 1 re- ceiyed three communications from Le- roux, dated Los Angeles, in winch he advised me that if l did not settle up with him immediately he would take the law into his own hands, and as his life was worth nothing to him, it hav- ing been ruined through my influence, he had nothing to lose and l every thing.
 Similar threats were made by Le- roux to Gerald Sherman, superintendent of the mine department of the Copper Queen company. Mir. Douglas had noth, ing but expressions of pity for the man whom neither he nor his company had injured, but who had merely an insane idea of which Mir. Douglas happened to be the victim.