| Show MADE HIS FORTUNE George C Whitmore of Nephi Buys a Gold Brick j FOR SIX THOUSAND DOLLARS Now Ho I tie Possessor of a Beautiful < l > er Ingot and an Ezperlcnce that Will Last Him Several Seasons PROVO Utah April 211Special telegram tele-gram to TEE HCRADJA gigantic swindle was perpetrated in Provo last night by which George C Whitmore president of the First National bank at Nephi and a prominent stock man of southern Utah was defrauded out of rOo A fellow by the name of Henry Johnson who professed to be profoundly ignorant and whose appearance appear-ance naturally boro out that supposition came to town early yesterday morning enquiring en-quiring for a man by the name of Whit more a stockraiser saying that he had been entrusted with an important message from an old acquaintance of this man Whit more and that ho could deliver it to no other person but him ExSheriff J W Turner of this city an old friend of Mr Whitmores was communicated with and be sent the man Johnson to Ne h to see Whitmore The man went down and told his tale Ho related that the man he came from was a Spaniard that they were living on the outskirts of Provo being nervous about staying at a hotel with the immense amount of gold bullion they bad In their possession that 4 they had discovered a valuable gold mine in Mexico and had reduced the precious metal into bricks What they wanted was to place these gold bricks with the bank and sell them t the mint in consideration for which services Whitmore was to receive re-ceive a handsome commission Yesterday afternoon Whitmore came up with Johnson from Nephi and last night accompanied by J W Turner went down to the camp of y this old acquaintance On arriving at the camp Whitmore was introduced by Johnson I John-son t the Mexican who gave his name as Da ZSTacha Naha Two gold bricks and a drill were produced Whit more started drilling into the bars and carefully placing the fragments in an envelope started for town to havo them tested An arrangement was entered into that i the bars proved to be as represented repre-sented that he would give them 0000 in part payment Reaching Provo Whitmore i and Turner went to Mr Beck the jeweler I and bad him put the drillings to the test Sure enough it was gold and this morning early Whitmore went to the residence of Cashier Dusenbury of the First National bank and told him he wanted 6000 in currency cur-rency No explanations were made The money desired was handed over and down I tp th abiding place of these two men went Whitmore and Turner The money was turned over and the gold bricks given up Reaching town the precious freight was placed in the National bank Colonel Moore of the U N and C looked at them and took a few filings from them which he placed in acid Alas I The goldbricks j gold-bricks were nothing more than copper The nows was soon carried t Whitmore and now scouts are out everywhere on the 1 trail of the men The bricks are about 4 inches square and 16 inches long weighing thirtysix and thirtyeight pounds respectively Were they the good stuff represented they would fetch about S24000 They have a clear ring which of itself ought t dis pel any thought of them being gold |
