The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-08-07

In the fall Of that year the Gates
Hawley group began aystemAAc IT.
tack on tho Greene securities, and the
consolidated company's stock dropped
from $50 to SO share. There was
= war Of experts over the value OF the
property, In which Greene won out.
and the price returned to $35 a share
on the strength of new findings OF some
sloo.0o0,0o0 worth OF copper in the
mine.
In April. 1894, as Greene was leav-
ing the Ansonia, where he lived,
James W. Goodman, mining man.
who said that he had lost 100000
through the manipulation Of the
Greene stocks, pushed an automatic
pistol against him and said he was
going to kill him. Greene told the
man such an action would be fool
ish" and argued him out of the idea.
In the winter Of the same year Greene
was carrying pistol OF his own, and
making equally idle threats against
the life OF Thomas w. Lawson,
The row between the two men. be-
gun with the matter Of the advances
for the Cananea mine. was increased
in bitterness by Lawsons magazine
articles on ''Frenzied Finance
Greene took up Lawsons weapon.
newspaper advertising. and on De-
tisement in New York newspapers
calling Lawson "a liar. faker and a
charlatan," and declaring that he
would cali upon Lawson for his an
swer" the following day.
Greene did not go 10 Boston, how
ever. until the 18th, Police Commits
sioner McAdoo said later that Greene
had obtained a permit to carry a re-
voiver before he made the trip. Greene
had lost within a. few days In the fall
of his copper stocks an amount guess
ed at as 100000. and he attribu-
ted IL to Lawson.
The meeting between the two men
took place In the Hotel Touraine. Bos-
ton, where Greene was stopping. Mr..
Lawson appeared in the corridor, with
a small army OF newspaper men and
police in the offing. Colonel Greene
came into the corridor at that mo-
ment and extending his hand said:
Hello. Lawson. How are you?" How
are yon, colonel" was the reply, and
the men, after shaking hands. Wen,
up TO Colonel Greenes room. There
they had a conference, bottle and
two glasses on the table and no fire-
arms in sight. Mutually satisfactory
statements were issued after the meet
and Colonel Greene returned TO New
York
After that Colonel Greene got A
concession OF 1000 square miles from
the Mexican government and organ
lied the Greene Gold Silver Company.
and the Sierra Madre Land and Lum-
Der Company. issuing securities to the
amount of s43,o0o,00o. These, how
ever, did not sell as his earlier Sc
curities had and he found himself
without funds 10 develop the proper
ties. The Rogers Amalgamated cop
per interests finally forced him To give
up the control Of the Greene Consoli-
dated. and not long after he was be-
reft of most OF his power and much
of his properties.
The panic of 1907 finished the fall
OF his fortunes and he left for Japan.
hoping there to secure capital to put
Smself and his enterprises on sta
bic footing again. Ha did not obtain
the needed capital. On his return he
closed his Wall street offices and re-
tired TO Cananea.
In June, 1906. his Cananea mines
We're the scene OF serious rioting hy
striking Mexican miners. Arizona
rangers at the invitation of the gov
ernor of Sorora, crossed the border
and put down the rioting
Several times in the last few years
reports have reached New York OF
Colonel Greenes falling. attributed by
his friends to the waning of his for
tunes.