Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1912-01-06
Used Mails
to Defraud
INDICTMENTS AGAINST FIVE
PROMINENT CITIZENS.
Ex-MAYoR OF BOSTON
Josiah Quincy Among the Accused
Julian Hawthorne, Son of Noted
Novelist, Also One of the Group.

New York, Jan. 5.-On indictments,
the existence of which was made pub
lie this afternoon for the first time,
pleas of not guilty were entered in the
United States district court this after
noon by Julian Hawthorne, journalist
promoter; Josiah Quincy. a former as
sistant secretary of state, ex-mayor OF
Boston and at present member OF the
transit commission of Boston; ALBERT
Freeman, a promoter; John Mchln-
non, treasurer and secretary of the
Hawthorne mining companies; and DR..
William J. Horton, nerve specialist
of this city All are charged with mis-
use Of the mails in scheme to de-
fraud investors in the stock Of mining
enterprises.
Five indictments.
-Four of the indictments against the
defendants contain sixteen counts and
the fifth contains eleven counts. Three
counts in each specific fraud IN the
cause of the Hawthorne Silver and
Iron Mines, Limited, Inc, capitalized
at $4,000, 600, sales Of the stock OF
which alone netted the promoters
S1,200,000, it is charged.
Hawthorne's Name a Magnet.
BY the free use of Julian Hawthorn's
name, little trouble was encountered,
it is alleged, in the promotion OF the
various stocks. Many Of the investors
are declared to have been influential
persons and personal friends OF the
journalist promoter. In the mass OF
literature sent out Hawthorne is al
legged to have asked his friends to get
in on the ground floor," because 1t
was firm and could not cave in"
Tho Secret of Solomon"
Pamphlets entitled Secret of Solo
mon" and scattered broadcast, told in
vestors, the Indictment AYERS, tnat
only way to get money is to dig Il
ont of the ground" Another pithJ
paragraph purported to be advice Civ.
en- by Hawthorne's father, Nathaniel
hawthorne, the novelist. 1t ran as
Nathaniel to Julian: What else
you do, don't try to make living by
authorship
One Of Hawtherne's Letters.
One letter which Hawthorne wrote,
the indictment charges, and mailed to
friends. when he was promoting the
sale of Temagami- Cobalt stock, SAID
in part:
you and many others would per-
haps take my word for it that piece
Of literature was good, or bad, because
! might be assumed to know something
about literature.
Wants More Money.
Il am writing to you on another
subject at this time, concerning which,
however, | believe l know almost as
much as I do about literature. l have
reverted to the profession for which
was educated, and from which / was
temporarily seduced by the allurement
of literature. That allurement has held
me for forty years; but the time has
kuow arrived when 1 want more money
than the sort of literature / have pro-
duced can provide.
Interested Friends and Classmates.
For the time being I have given
up Literature, and am devoting my sole
ambition to Temagami. During the
! past month I have written about it tC
people who l had reason to feel knew
me or knew of me--to old classmates
in college and other friends. They re-
! sponded entirely beyond my expecta-
tons. I have, received subscription:
for more than $4,000 shares from
| them We shall sell, all told, 500,00(
shares, and in order TO interest yoI
with US l am writing to you now"
Freeman Received Royalty.
The postal authorities allege tina
besides getting his share of the money
| taken in for the sale of the variou!
| stocks, Freeman received a royalty o
five cents on every share of stocks
disposed by the sales company.