The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-05
True Stories of the Secret Service
A Pipe Dream

| afterwards known as The Newsboys
| Friend" General Bristow forwarded to
the president documents setting forth In
full all the circumstances attending and
| surrounding the inception OF the plot and
the progress IL had made up to that time
as related to him by Colonel King. These
| documents were turned over to ME and
| was instructed TO read everything set
forth carefully. The conclusion that /
] came to and so reported was that the
| Ing notorlety or making an effort TO In
| duce the government to pay him a. sum
| OF money, 1t was quite impossible for
| me TO give credence to the Unreasonable
confession made by Colonel King. ] did
not, therefore grasp the case as one af.
| fording me au opportunity for making a
reputation ,a While nr;a somewhat - anxious nHn,
tary OF the treasury were. after receiv-
ing my report. quito willing TO await fur
| ther developments: Some months later,
retaryship and William a. Richardson had
been appointed to take his place, l one
day received a telegram from the solicitor
OF the treasury requesting me 70 meet him hin,
City. In obedience to his request / met
| the solicitor at the appointed time and
place
/ was now Informed that Colonel Hous-
ton King. accompanied by Alexander
Hoagland and Il lawyer named l.. j, FIJI
ston OF Greenupberg, KY, had recently
secretary OF the treasury for the pur-
pose Of calling his attention 10 the revel-
alton previously reported by General Bris-
tow, The trio were fresh from Ken
save the treasury from the impending
calamity that might befall H. In conse-
quence OF the carrying out OF the great
Which t waf 10 mag krr n'ed
torney. an undersized "knowit-alr' sort
OF a fellow, carried with him an air OF
considerable Importance He seemed to
Upon upon his fs'' shoulders. While Secretary
Richardson wes not very much upset by
Kings story he thought II was a case
that ought to be Investigated, Conse-
treasury. was called into the conference
and II was determined to take the trio
Of kentuckians TO New York City. where
the work necessary for the unraveing OF
the plot was expected to take place. This
city was then. as now, the headquarters
for frenzied finance, King. his lawyer
and Colonel Hoagland for the purpose
from the company OF the solicitor and |
luartered themselves at the Metropolitan |
hotel. The solicitor expressed the opin-
on that IL might be scheme on the |
part of King and the lawyer TO somehow |
,btain money from the government, Not
this suspicion. he thought |
I necessary TO make an effort to unearth |
he plot: was now pretty we'll con
iItcu lndt "dr UP dSdlHSt Ease iHhL
lad already assumed unusual import
Ince as the authorities at Washington
we're Interested in its outcome. Hence
felt It my duty as chief OF the govern
nent detectives to bear careful hand
n the affair. The solicitor told me that
he president and secretary had ex-
PRESSED a desire for a prompt investiga-
ion. 1t had been previously arranged
hat King should come TO meet me at the
fifth Avenue hotel. Al the appointed
ime he sent up his card, upon which
'as written "Col. Houston King Elliot
ounty. KY" put the card in my
ocket and told the porter TO show the
entleinan up. AS the Kentucklan strobe
ITO the room with a soldierly step and
caring he faced about and saluted me
military fashion. He seated him
ELF with an air of dignifed Importance
nd looked as though he thought him
elf In the presence Of man of conse- :
lrence. AS ne unfolded his wonderful
lie he went ballooning way'up into the s
'urky sky of finance. There WAS MOTH i
le small about his talk. He spoke OF q
,illions as though they were but trihes i
nd OF a colossal scheme that was q ] i!