Show WESTER1N LOAN ASSOCIATION Magnitude of the Fraud Almost Beyond Belief GAME WAS VERY CLEVERLY WORKED HYDE PROBABLY OPERATED IN DENVER ALSO Body of Justus Tan Patten Buried by a Snowslide in Dursts Canyon on Feb 4th is Found by the Little Lit-tle Dog of the Victim Theatricals Theatri-cals Court Notes News Nuggets That the Western Loan association was a great big swindle became more and more apparent yesterday as investigation inves-tigation along the lines outlined in yesterdays yes-terdays Herald continued The cleverness clever-ness of the work of Mr Hyde is shown in the fact that he maintained the agency here so long and kept Ogden Og-den people in ignorance of it Of course an investigation of the business methods meth-ods of the concern by any Ogden business busi-ness man would have resulted disastrously disas-trously to the Western Loan agency Suspicion was aroused In the mind of one business man when some time ago one of the letterheads came before his eyes he ytated that no responsible concern would state simply Headquarters Headquar-ters office New York City without giving street address and number Besides Be-sides the letterheads of the Western I Loan agency which had the names of J S W Hyde manager James Glaspia attorney and George W Sumner cashier cash-ier another style of letterhead was found amongst the effects in the office This read W H Hamilton Co First Mortgage Loans 212 Boston block Denver Colo The presumption is that the man was also operating in Denver or was about to Inspector Fitzgerald confiscated all the stationery In the office and was much delighted to find the two letters in Hydes handwriting referred to yesterday yes-terday One cf these stated to a customer cus-tomer that future remittances should be made to New York the other that they should be sent to Chicago Chi cago was to be the place where the western office was to be maintained instead in-stead of Ogden and New York was still to be the headquarters office At the office of the Utah Investment company Hyde gave his name as Hicks when he rented the office He is known to have received mail as both Hyde and Hicks As the mail ceased coming so suddenly afterhis departure Miss Murphy Mur-phy thinks the man must have ordered or-dered it sent somewhere else Inspector Inspec-tor Nichols who came up to pursue investigations in-vestigations further yesterday does not say what he thinks about the reason for the mail stopping At the Central hotel where Hyde stopped a portidn of the time while in the city he registered as Sylvester Hyax of Albany N Y He came thereabout there-about April 1 and when he left was owing the house for three weeks board His departure must have been sudden and unexpected as he left a trunk containing some clothes and a lot of printed stationery announcing the name of the Ohio Central Insurance Company of Cincinnati some of which bore the name of S S Meeser of Montana Mon-tana general western manager with headquarters at Helena It is believed this was one of the schemes he was working to catch people with He had a lot of shotgun shells and a note for 100 showing that someone whose signature could not be obtained had made a part payment on 160 acres of land down in Texas This note was j made payable to James Hawkins and i bore date of Nov 15 1S95 It was indorsed in-dorsed on the back as having been paid tAt t-At the hotel he had cashed several 10 checks and some money orders all of which were received from Montana He was a good customer at the bar and knew how to handle a crowd Miss Murphy the lady stenographer who did considerable of his correspond once says he was in the habit of writing writ-ing letters of inquiry about himself and forwarding them to Denver to be j mailed back to Ogden She has been subpoenaed to appear before the federal fed-eral grand jury in Salt Lake today Inspector Nichols went up yesterday and learning that she had her original notes decided to have her appear for the purpose of testifying It is known that Hyde was negotiating with parties in Brigham City and in Pocatello about the time he absconded While here he secured several abstracts to property which he returned claiming I claim-ing there were flaws in the same Fees were never advanced however |