New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-03
HAWTHORNE'S LETTERS
DWELT UPON MILLIONS
Purchasers of Stock in Silver
Mines Testify Property Was
Not as Described.
THOUSANDS SUNK IN STOCK
Novelist's Glowing Accounts
Read at Trial of Promoters
for Alleged Fraudulent
Use of Mails.

Men who had received some OF the per
soual letters" Of Julian Hawthorne anu
had followed his advice TO purchase STOCK
I'm the Canadian mines promoted by MN
and mis- associates told their experiences
yesterday to Judge Hough ana the Jun
before whom Mr.. Hawthorne Apei'
Freeman. Josiah Quincy and DR., william
I Morton are on trial, charged WIN
fraudulent use of the mails.
Arthur $. De Wolf. OF Melrose High
LANDS. Mass, identified large NUMBER VI
letters and circulars that had been SEM
TO him praising the Hawthorne hliuiiie
enterprises The Temagami-CopaIt Mics
Company, whose property was mean NV
silver producing Cobalt district IN Oah-
ada. were held out to him as certain
investment. and he finally purchased
large block of stock. In personal ie'.ei
Of Julian Hawthorne, dated Oc'o0e' A''
1903, the novelist wrote:
We expended about $4,000 of our az, Own Sll
money. our interest represents I'- ,''are
shares. and the other Syi;Syg SHARES
delivered to property owners. d will
n Won will visit Cobalt camp, anu Maa,
look over the properties when Cpr, ,,itiiich
from twenty to forty acres, anu 49, 49,,
are capitalized into COMPANY con ana then look
o,,er orr property of about one tnousdIio
acres. IL you will not concluue tia 80 n
have the making. and by tnls -. i s56 .
400 900 70 100000. 900, then ! simply doh
know what l am talking about
SCOTS at Bank References.
In another part of the same letter MI,
Hawthorne alluded TO the request oii'e
made by a banker for references concern
ing the men behind the Temagaml aiiHes
comnanv Saying that he had gwen "
the man the bank references desireu' MI
Hawthorne added:
AZ the same time | pointed OUT 20 nun
that from my standpoint such iii III
.lal dd'Jid not count very much. L tolu
him candidly that my experience haH tbe
tbat some of the biggest CROOKS nave 'ne
best of references.
= colonel Samuel +. Tillman, L. s. A.,
retired. testified that he had suoscilpeo
10 $500 of Temagami- Cobalt stock IN 'he
rain Of 1908. In August. 1909, Colonel
rir1man said, he visited the mine aho
fornd himself disillusioned
~ told Mr. Freeman upon returning 10
Now York that l was greatly dlsap'
,ointed." the witness said. "Thereupoh
Mr. Freeman told me that Mr.. Ha"-
trorne had used some pretty fiowery IAN
cuagc. replied that Mr.. hawthorne
had based his statements upon the reports
som 10 him from the mine by Mr.. Free
man himself. Mr.. Freeman asserted tha'
II f had been. on the field and seen wha'
bn had seen would be enthusiastic TOO
tut I told him that l had been there ana
bad found no reason for enthusiasm.
Saw Specimen Nuggets.
In December. 1909, Colonel Tillman
AGAIN visited the office of Mr.. Freeman
bo said. in response to an invitation to
become a member of the advisory COM
n,ittee. He asked Mr.. Freeman If the
advisory committee would supervise the
literature sent out, Colonel Tillman said
but Mr.. Freeman answered that he did
not think so. Colonel Tillman did not
bccome a member of the committee, he
testified.
"Did YOU see any silver at the Diabasa
neninsula?" he was asked by c. A.
Thompson, Assistant United States ~
torney.
az did not" was the reply. Il was
shown a specimen of ore that contained
some gold which was said TO have peer
taken from one of the shafts"
CAPTAIN John b. Collins. u. S. N. re-