Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1912-05-12
SPANISH CONFIDENCE GAME
IS OFFERED TO B|SBEE MAN
WHO ANSWERED BY CABLE
He Receives Letter Going in to Detail How He shall
Proceed to Spain. Rescu Maiden from Orphan Asy-
lum and Bring Along Pockets Filled With Current
Coin of the Realm.

For the 6rst time in Arizona, the
Review is able to print the details
OF the famous Madrid imprisoned
banker" swlndle scheme. One of
those whose name was reported to the
Madrid crooks as probable customer
was John Wohlschlagel. In order to
learn more of the scheme and TO see il
correspondence with the crooks might
not furnish a clue upon which the
Spanish confidence crooks might De
prosecuted Wohlschiagel answered by
cable the letter sent TO him and soon
afterwards received a letter signed
by one Victor DUPONT. unfolding the
scheme
If the first letter Was suspicious,
the second is even more so, for every
conceivable objection to entering into
the scheme is anticipated and an at
tempt made to argue it away. SpecihC
directions for travel are given anu
Wohlschlagel is advised not TO bring
his money in checks but in American
bank notes. As is nearly always the
case there is a woman accomplice,
the putatiye daughter of the putatiV g
rich banker. Wohlschlagel was advised
10 take the first steamer from New
York for Hayre, Cherbourg or Liver
pool and texts OF kilograms to be sent
on leaving New York and arriving at
Europes II port are. sent. He is advised
10 proceed 10 Zaragossa TO get the
beautifui daughter out of the Orphan
asylum and thence 60 TO Madrid and
stop at certain inn, with the injunc-
ton bulge you not If the keeper is
not in.
The newspaper clipping appears 10
a genuine clipping but it is some
what old and the incident may have
really happened and is being used by
the crooks as a basis Of their swindie.
The fac Smiles of the court orders
also appear genuine and have the seal
of the court on then.
Following is the letter giving the
scheme in detail:
Madrid, March 26, 1912
Ny dear sir:
With great pleasure / have seen your
missiye and shall explain as briefly
as possible my CHASTITY position and
please TO excuse me If ] don't write
correctly your idiom. Here is what IS
the matter:
Established banker in Paris and
owing to unfortunate spcculations too
much to be related and very near
being arrested for t-ickish bankruptcy
I was obliged to run away from France
10 shelter me in another country.
What did me to resolve this were the
heavy losses had in the Exchange ard
seeing me implicated for the large in
terests I must pay my customers,
realized all remained in cash, viz,
200, O00 francs and started from Paris
BY stealth in order TO save my only
daughters future and at the same
time to place in safety the works !
did while several years.
Before starting from Paris and To
assure my money / made to deliver
me a check by the Franco-Anglo-
American bank of good reliance for
amount of 100000 dollars payable at
sight and to bearer by New IorN
bank for | thought 10 establish me-
with my daughter in the United
States
when had the check did it in the
secret OF trunk ! made to do TO the
purpose aud secretly | went out from
France with my dear daughter. 1G
years aged, 10 Madrid because ] want
10 go on shipboard at Gibraltar To
sail directly for New York.
Now my dear sir, | will say you
the reason for my unfortunate ar
rest. After some days of tranquility
in this city when one day on going out
from the hotel | met with a French
gentleman who knew me again, the
said gentleman had some sum in my
transactions, ana churlisly exscted ME
the money. threatening TO relate my
name and bankruptcy to the authori
ties. could not nay just then the
claimed sum and have tried to dis
suade him but as he was deaf we
Guarreled briskly and he affronted
me, so that, lifting his stick agains!
me. dazzled me then and discharged
my revolvers, falling down dead
Since then ] am imprisoned and my
equipages seized and for greater grief
my dear daughter was placed in al