The Glenwood post., 1909-09-25
Man Claiming to Be Prisoner in Old
Madrid Offer G|enWood Man a
Share of Hidden Fortune
For Assistance
BRADLEY REFUSES TO bite"

Either J. NJ. Bradley of this city has
lost Il golden opportunity to pass into
the ranks of the rich or some fellow
thought Bradley an easy mark and wls
fooled. Some days ago Afr. Bradley,
who formerly engaged in the upholstery
business in Aspen, was called to the
silver camp for some work that was of
the most particular sort. 1t was while
he was in Aspen on this trip that he
received a letter, postmarked Madrid
Spain, in which Mr., Bradley was told
hard luck story, as follows:
"Madrid, Spain, 26th 800.
Dear Sir
Although l know you only from
good references of your honesty my
sad situation compels me TO reveal you
an important affair in which you can
procure fortune saving at the same
time tina. of my dear daughter.
charge you re.rryr about this affair
Before being imprisoned here | was
established as "a banker in Russia as
you will see by the enclosed article of
many English newspapers which have
published my arrest in London,
~ beseerh YOU to help me to obtain
sum of $4sO.OOO | have in America
and to come here to raise the seizure
of my baggage paving to the Court thr
expenses OF my trial and recover my
portmanteaus containing secret packet
where | have hidden the document in
dispensabIe to recover the said sum
LAS reward give YOU the third
part viz Sl6n,Ouu.
81 can t receive your answer in the
prison but you must send Il cablegram
to a person of my confidence who will
deliver it to me for to know if you
received this letter to instruct you in
all my secret.
Awaiting your cable am truly
'PETROVIER.
First of all answer by cable as
follows. not by letter
''Pablo Gil
''Abada II
Madrid
by preeaution you must sign your
cable following name; Canamo.'
Together with the letter was what
purported to be a newspaper clipping
from some paper in which the story of
the arrest of the above man was told
as follows:
Arrest of a st. Petersburg Banker
Charged with Fraud in Russia and
Manslaughter in Spain
.terview of the Two Ambassadors
Some months ago, as our readers may
remember we referred in these columns
to the great scandal caused, in st.
Petersburg and in Russia generally, by
n noted Banker who absconded, leaving
a deficit of over five millions of rubles.
The Russian Police sought for him
for long time in vain, for it seems he
had not left the least trace of his flight
and the continued search over Europe
and America proved unavaihng.
tsltEudN. upN'N'l. ii spanish IN
spector accompanied by two officers
from Scotland Yard and acting under
instructions of the Spanish Ambassador
who had previously. interviewed the
Home Secretary arrested him on his
way from the Hotel where he was stay
ing to the Steamship Office 1t seems
that it was his evident intention to
take passage for New York From in
formation received by the Ambassador
he had been in hiding with a woman
and with his daughter. A few days
before arriving in London he had quar-
relied with another Russian, who was
mortally wounded by a revolver shot
during the scuffle, and who only lived
long enough TO denouncc his assalian..
In an interview with the Russian
Ambassador, it seems that the name be
had been using in Spain, and which he
gave on being arrested was not his
real one Manasseina being simply an
alibi, but after comparing the prisoner
with the photographs in his possession
the Russian Ambassador, recognised