The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-03-31

and he took this away with him. 1t
also was learned that Storms had not
stopped at the Astor House at all. He
hired a room there by the week, but
never went to IL. and only called at
the hotel to get his mail.
Storms had told one of the members
of the firm that he had given dinner
to some Of his English friends at the
Astor House and related some of the
stories which were told by his friends
of American life. It was considered
very strange that Storms, who carried
all the marks Of honesty in his face
and speech, should have lied about such
an unimportaDt matter; and. consider"
ing ~all the circumstances, doubt was
raised about his veracity in other mat
ters of importance,
Several days passed and nothing
was heard from Storms. Wells 6 Co.
became a bit uneasy and sent a cable
to F'rink & Beamen, asking for in
formation about the further shipments
of gold. Frink g. Beamcn replied that
they did not know anything about ship
ments of the. precious metal, and would
be delighted to find any of 1t. Then
the direct inquiry was made by Wells
& Co. of Frink & Bcamen If thev had
not consigned 5000 900 to Wells & Go.
The answer came back that they had
not.
This news tnrned things upside down
in Wells Il Co.'S establishment The
gold which they had sold hal been
broken up into smaller packages and
pretty widely distributed Some of the
coin was found and il WAS pronounced
genuine by bauk experts. but the deep
interest of Wells & Co aroused the
and they sent several samples TO the
assay office for analysis. This exam
nation showed that there was prac-
ticallv only = trace of gold on the face
of each coin, and the metal was worth.
less
Then there was the deuce 10 pay.
The customers Of Wells & Go. demand.
ed the return Of their money and the
firm was forced 10 suspend temporarily.
! was called into the case at this june,
tnre and ! must confess th1t IL looked
like mountain. Advlccs from London
showed that all the papers which Ind
been used by Nathaniel Storms in this
country hal been forged. sud the in
vestigation made by Wells & Co was
lust ten days too late. The plot would
have been exposed ir thc> had made
inquiries concerning Storms at the
start Private lottpr blanks and Sc.
cret marks of Identification had been
obtained from Frinlt & Roamen in
some WAY. showing that some enc in
their employ had heru giving iuforma-
tiop There was nothing in this coun
try hut good description of Storms
He wore full heard, aud ! knew that
he woulI shake this al the first oppor
tunity, so that description OF him
was useless.
was sent 10 London 10 work NJ !
that end with tho Scotland Yard ppo
pie. brought them the information
abou, the letter blanks and secret !
marks. and watch was put upou
everybody in Frink 4 Bcsmau,s Office. !
They had twenty clerks working for !
them. and il took some time 10 pick |
up our man. We found vonng fellow |
named Sinclair VINO had money to burn /!
on SIS a week aud pinched him. Hej
squcalcd without delay. aud said that
hc bad been induced TO give up the /
secrets Of the business by two men
who claimed TO he EnRlishmou. They |
gave him 5000 for his work. He
heard them call each other ANDY and |
Wary aud this gave The first tip on
the gang. ] was satisfied that the two
men were ANDY Bliss and Marry Me. |
Gee. both crooks. | learned that the
bogus coin had been brought from