| Show 4 How Whitmore was Caught PROVO Utah April 23ESpecial telegram tele-gram to THE HERALDA 0000 swindle las been perpetrated upon George Whit more of Nephi by a man who gave his name as Johnson and a clique who have been camped at Provo river This combination combi-nation represented to prominent citizens of Provo that many years ago they had discovered a gold vein out of which solid gold could be hammered that I it was the property of Johnson a Spaniard and another an-other partner named Whitmore for whom they had been searching through Mexico 4 Colorado and Nevada but could find no trace and had finally come to Utah having heard that such a man resided at Nephi Mr Whitmore who became excited ex-cited and elated over the prospect of a mountain of wealth came to Provo to negotiate ne-gotiate with these men who produced two bars of what appeared to be solid gold and took the filings to a jeweler who pronounced pro-nounced them gold The men appeared to be extremely ignorant and were afraid to enter a civilized city They were possessed posses-sed of enough business capacity however to offer a proposition to Mr Whitmore to I the effect that he advance 6000 upon the I bars take them and dispose of them at their value after which they would expect their proportion of the balance Whit more accepted the proposition paid over I the cash and came to town with his imaginary imagin-ary fortune but after a test upon these bars it was discovered that they were copper cop-per This came like a thunder clap from a clear sky Whitmoao was paralyzed the thieves were non est and the officers setout set-out in pursuit with the hopes of bying in itA |
