New-York tribune., 1910-06-23
PRIEST SAVES POLICEMAN ELLIS IN STOCK DEALS
Hamburger Wrote Details of
Transactions in His Diary.
BOSTON "MYSTIC" INVOLV WE'D
Woman Says Many Others Were
Induced to Buy Mining Shares
in Ellis's Office.

When an inquest is held tomorrow into
the death of Paul Hamburger. who was
found shot to death in the Office of Sarnri
Ellis, the Hindu magnetic healer and
psychic, at No West 45th street, the cor
oners Jury will be asked 70 consider heavy
sales by Ellis of mining stock. with the
nature of which his assistant was fully ac-
quainted, as entries In his diary would in
dicate Elns's confidential affairs are
touched upon in the dead mans record.
4 memorandum in this notebook shows
that young Hamburger was the owner OF
five hundred shares of the stock of the
Blue Ridge Mining Company. How much
money changed hands during this particu-
lar transaction the entry does not tell, but
the face value of the certificates is 81 a
share The capital stock of the company IS
put down as $780, ,000 of which 81, 800, at least,
was sold The diary notes this fact The
names of Cook and another appear on the
certificates of the concern as promoters
a large number of these certificates were
found in Ellis's office. The yogi, it is said,
is interested in another mining property
as we'll
Miss Lulu Small, who was employed as a
stenographer in EIliss Office, gave fur
ther details of the Blue Ridge Mining Com
pany. She was examined on Tuesday IN
Coroner Holtzhausers Office, and at that
time declared her duties did not include
handling the stock business. Assistant
District Attorney Turnbull, who has been
conducting an investigation prior to the
INQUEST was baffled then, but yesterday
the stenographer said that she had drawn
up tho constitution and bylaws of the Blue
Ridge concern.
Another witness at the hearing yesterday
was a woman known as Laura Stewart
Her address is given as Fifth avenue, near
10th street. She said she knew Jack
Dempsey, one of Samri Elis's assistants in
the Office, under another name: that she
had paid him 1886 to be invested in Blue
Ridge stock and that he repaid part of this
sum when she grew dissatisfied with her
securities The Stewart woman told MIR.
Turnbull and Coroner Hotzhauser that
many rich women had handed over their
money in return for certificates in the min
ing company, and that some of these
women had paid frequent visits to the Of
flee for medical treatment"
Assistant District Attorney Turnbull'
who was asked late yesterday afternoon to
amplify the statements made during the
examination of the two women, said he
was trying to find the reiatlon between
Samr Ellis and a well known Boston
psychic, who has been selling stock in the
New York and Mexican Mining Company,
a concern capitalized at 100000 or more.
This stock has been disposed of in large
Quantities in this city and in Boston, and
the doings of it's promoter will be the sub
ject of a grand jury inquiry
Whether Samri Ellis was as active in the
New York and Mexican Mining Company
as in the Blue Ridge company has not
been ascertained definitely, but that he was
associated with the Boston man shortly pc
fore Hamburger's death and that the lat
ter held all the facts regarding their
transactions is confidently asserted.