Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-11-03
GIRL IN
DIRE NEED Of
RESCUE
IMPASSIONED APPEAL TO
ALBUQUERQUE MAN
Col, w, S, FopeWeIG Picked Out
as a Satisfactory Marx tor
Time Worn Spanish SwindIe'

Now. who would have thought that
Col. w $. Hopewel of Albuquerque
was spanish?
Who would have dreamed that
somewhere in Colonel Hopewelfs
thrilling and mysterious past he had
4 fun and complete set Of Spanish
ancestors
Who in all New Mexico, knowing
even these things, would have picked
the colonel for an Easy Mark?
Yesterday Colonel T%Iopewell re
ceived IA letter from that dear Madrid
over which King Alfonso and the
little Alfonso's rule supreme. 1t was
signed Eduardo Blanco HopeWelL
indicating that the Madrid kinsman
is a white man all right
The letter covers -four closely
| written pages. teeming with passion
thrilling with hair-breadth escapes
fairly burning with adventure and
sprinkled every few lines with visions
of riches so vast that building rail
roads compared TO it is as the revenue
Of a peanut stand compared to that
Of a millinery emporium. 1t teens
that Colonel Hopewell's mother was
n spanish lady OF high degree. The
colonel declares he did not know il
before, but there is a strong suspicion
that he is concealing something. or
course, his ancestry would in some
measure explain the c%olonels popu-
larity with all the people Of New
! Mexico. native born and otherwise
but he declares il isn't so. Bui
Eduardo Blanco says it is and. a.
Eduardo Blanco seems to have all tn
facts. there is simply nothing to 1t
The letter runs that Eduardo Blanco's
mother was a sister of Colonel Hope
Wells mother and that she married .
Spanish gentleman of great riches
ana high position. Through politica
and other persecution the rich
Spaniard was forced to leave Spair
and change his name to Hopcwell
His son fell heir to the name and
thinking all danger past, he loaded
six hundred thousand dollars in pieces
of eight and golden doubloons, and
as much in diamonds and rubies and
other precious stones. into a steame'
trunk ana, taking his beautiful -
Ycar-old daughter. he sailed away t.
that dear Spain. But. alas. there wa
trouble in store, The younger Hope
wclrs striking likeness to his father
got him spotted by the custom and
he was pinched and chuckcd into the
Jusgado and is there held incom-
~tmunicado, while the beautiful sem
orita. now IA years of age, Is off in
I Paris all 10y herself, Fortunately, the
precious trunk remains safe in the
hands of the customs and not know
ing what is in il. since the Spanish
customs house officers never examine
ones luggage. il can be got out for
about $1,000 duty. And this is where
Colonel Hopewell ome in. Eduardo
the white suggests that he hustle over
with a draft for $4,000 American
money. sent to "A friend, trusted and
true, who will get the trunk out OF
soak and split the contents between
the colonel, the beautiful daughter in
| distress. the friend and the gent in
the jusgado.
1t is the same old Spanish relation
swindle which has been worked in
this country ever since the Spanish
! war. when in some way Spaniarde
| found out how dead easy some
| Americans are. New Mexico, in par
/ ~ticular, has been blessed with large
lunches Of this bogus correspondence.
| Recently j. II. O'Rielly, general man
ager Of the Occidental Life, received
even a o carefully prepared letter
than is Colonel HopeWell's. Recently
a gentleman in Vermont fell for the
scheme for $4,000. M one in New
Mexico. however. has thus far been
easy enough to fall. The swindlers
thus far have picked out men whose
ancestry is unfortunately not suffi-
| GENTLY Castilian.