The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-03-25
WALTER c. CAMPBELL
IS IN DIRE STRAITS
Depredations of Mexican
Revolutionists Cause Trou-
bic for Millionaire.

PORTLAND, Ore, March 24.-Blam-
ing his misfortunes on his friends, who
he told the detectives, had caused him
the loss of three fortunes, Walter Greer
Campbell, broker of San Francisco, was
arrested here today and charged with
obtaining money under false pretenses.
The telegraphic warrant sent from San
Francisco named w. B, Kellogg, San
Francisco hotel man, as the complain
ant.
When Campbell was arrested he had
$3.50 in his possession. He was
searched and locked up in the city Jail,
but during the entire day he spent less
than an hour in Jail, and when he went
to bed at night it was in his hotel
with q guard furnished by Sheriff
Word, to whose keeping Police Chief
Clark tnrned Campbell over.
CampbelI's statement that he had
fortune in bonds on the way here from
San Francisco was misunderstood by
the detective, who thought he had them
on his person. Later when the detec-
tive found a bundle of papers in Camp
BELLS wallet he mistook them for gold
certificates, with the result that a re-
port spread that the prisoner was car
rying 100000.
According to persons who havo had
dealings with Campbell in his two
weeks soJourn in Portland. where he
came from the home of his sister, Mrs.
Phoebe Gibbons, in Walla Walla, he
has been trying to raise money on
some English securities in order to
avert crash in his financial affairs in
San Francisco, He is said by a local
broker to have $4,000 in bonds of Eng
lish issuance in the mails on the way
hero from San Francisco, but their
coming was expected to enable him to
secure enough ready money TO pay his
bills and start afresh.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 24.-Wal-
ter Greer Campbell, arrested today in
Portland, left his wife and child here
on March 9. He told his wife he was
going to Los Angeles on business trip
and left her but little money. Being
used to an income Of SI25,000 a year.
she went out the next day and spent
500 shopping. Out of funds, she tele-
graphed her husband for more money
on March IL, and two or three days
later the telegram came back to her
undeliyered.
Then began search Of their apart
ment for money. Instead she found
stacks of pawn tickets, One of her
rings had gone for 800. Instead of
the family silver being in the safety
deposit vault as she supposed, the pawn
tickets showed they had been pledged. |
Even the baby's cradle and lnyette, |
which had cost $1,000, had been bought
on time and were not paid for in full |
For two years Campbell had been
fortune estimated at
$4,000,000 dwipdle under the depreda.
tions of Mexican revolutionists. Ap-
parently he had lacked the courage to
acquaint his wife with the truth Of
their circumstances
Shortly after receiving S550,000 in
cash and $3,000,000 in stock after a
promotion, he bought 200
acres on the summit Of Ben Lomond,
overlooking Santa Cruz, and
started to build Castle Campbell. The
were laid, but work was
abandoned. Thousands of dollars
worth of costly furnishings hauled TO
the top of the mountain are there now
in tents, watched over by men who
have advanced Campbell money since
his troubles began.