Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-04
Calls on Scott

| Part Of this conversation was overheard by
| a gentleman from Long Beach, who was in
/ the lobby at the time. Pierson insisted on me
seeing Mr.. Scott that afternoon. Fully ap-
preciating the scheme that was being worked
called upon Mr.. Scott, had an interview with
him, stating that 1 would consider the pur
chase Of his claims If he would make price
upon them. Not reporting by noon the next
day, Pierson asked me to meet him alone at
the Angelus hotel, when he emphasized the
fact that it would be well for me to see Mr..
! Scott relative to the purchase of his mining
claims, and do it at a very early date
Acting on advice from my attorney, Matti-
son B, Jones, l again called upon Mr.. Scott,
agreed to consider the purchase of his mining
ten days option to examine the same. This
he declined to do we finally agreeing that
would purchase the five claims at $1,000 each,
$1,000 to be paid down the following day ana
the balance at early date. Wednesday
morning I telephone Mr.. Scott's office, asking
that the contracts be prepared and samples Of
the rock be submitted, and 1 called about
O. clock to approve the contracts. Mr. Scott
presented his mining locations, five in number.
demurred on the grounds that they had never
been recorded and were not good titles. He
Insisted that the act calling for the recording
of mining claims within thirty days after
location had been repealed and that the title
to the property was absolutely valid as it
stood.
took the contracts prepared by Mr.. Scott.
and the mining locations, requesting that 1 be
given a short time to consider them with my
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my attorney. He being too busy to assist me
further in the matter during Wednesday, he
telephoned Mr.. Scotts attorney that the mat
ter would be held over until o'clock Thurs
day morning. and they would meet at his,
Mr. Jones', office to close the deal, provided all
matters were satisfactory.
About $50, on arriving home, my wife in
formed me that a party had called me several
times on the telephone and was exceedingly
anxious to get in communication with me.
About o'clock I was called on the phone by
Mr. Pierson. He stated that 1 had agreed to
close the purchase of the Scott claims and the
transaction must be settled at l de-
INJURED, stating that it would be impossible
until the attorneys could meet on Thursday
morning, He said he would guarantee to get
Mr. Scott's attorney and I should get mine, as
both he and Mr.. Scott would insist that the
deal be closed that night and the money paid
over to Scott. On my stating that it would
be impossible to close the deal until morn
ing he said he could guarantee a much
better price II the deal was closed that night,
and 1t had to be closed or it would go hard
with me. 1 ignored further calls on the phone
and reported at Mr.. Jones office Thursday
morning, where we met Mr.. Scott's attorney,
Paul Usher, about $3.50, and the whole matter
was gone in detail with a statement Of
| the procedure that Mr.. Pierson and Mr. Scott
had taken to force the sale of Mr.. Scotts
property on me or my associates.
Has Contracts
My attorney has In his possession the con-
tracts prepared by Mr.. Scott and the original
location notices, which show that they have
never been recorded. 1t shows that Mr.. Scott
was not only willing to sell at high price
property which. in the newspaper article pre-
pared by him and Pierson, was declared to
be worthless, but he contracted to sell property
to which he has absolutely title and de-
manded spot cash payment without permission
to examine the same. These various transac-
tions, all OF which we have sufficient proof,
prove most conelusively that the article pre-