Show SWISH OF SKIRTS IN IK DISAPPEARANCE f Departure of Young Woman Coincident With That of Williams MINING SCANDAL GROWS MISSING MAN MAY CARRY ARRY SUB SUBSTANTIAL SUBSTANTIAL SUBSTANTIAL FORTUNE Those who were in positions to know something of the affairs of Ernest Wit Wil Williams Withams hams liams the missing manufacturers agent and mining man express s the belief that he will never again be seen In Salt Lake The Time impression Is that he is now back in his old home in England Mr Wit Wil Williams Withams 11 liams hams who had hail a reputation for gallantry is said to have gone to England to join a young oung English woman who left Salt Lake a short time before his departure She announced on going away awa that she would visit relatives in Europe but Wil Williams 11 liams Iiams intimates state that there Is no doubt that he lie sent her on ahead with the intention of quickly Joining her There are a number of circumstances which Indicate that Williams planned to leave Salt Lake forever when he took the th train for the east past on Sept 8 S One of the tha strongest of these is a letter written on oa the tho day tIa of his departure to George W Moyer oyer attorney for tor George W Reed R d one of the stockholders in the Success Min Mining ing company who for a month before Williams disappearance made vigorous efforts to compel the agent to make a IL settlement with Reed Williams had repeatedly deferred tak taking taking ing In up the matter of the settlement and andin andIn andin in his letters to Attorney Moyer had taken pains to avoid acknowledging the justice of oC the Reed claim Promised to Come Back But on Sept 8 before vanishing he ha wrote the th lawyer lawer a letter stating that he was going to Idaho and for Cor that reason could not keep an engagement he had made to take uj ul the Reed matter He added that he would be back In Salt Lake Lakein in a few Cew days and that he would then see sea that Mr Ir Reed received the shares in the th Colorado Mining company compan to which h he hA was entitled in exchange for his Success stock Lawyer Lawer Moyer supposed that he had at last forced a settlement for his I client but as week after week passed without the return of Williams h he began gan ganto to think that something was wrong Ha lie te therefore brought suit against Williams and obtained a judgment of by byde de default default fault Another thing thin which indicates that Wil Williams llama liams disappearance was carefully planned is that his III sample cases were actually shipped to Pocatello Ida on the theda day da he took the train for the east As he reached reach d Chicago on Sept 10 two days das af at after after atter ter leaving leavin Salt Lake he could not have gone to Idaho The mining deal Is ac accepted accepted accepted as the real cause of ot Mr r Williams unexplained departure from Salt Lake LakeIt It lt la Is one of the most of Salt Lake mining history Deal The Success Mining company compan was or organized organized by b Williams and owned one claim In the Tintic mining district near the holdings of the Colorado Mining company and other of the big Tintic corporations The stock was sold at 10 cents cants a share Under Williams management there were werA numerous assessments and some of oC the stockholders allowed their shares to re return return return turn to the treasury treasur through h nonpayment non pa ment mont of these demands Others lost in interest interest interest terest in the operations of the company and Williams was left lett In complete con control control control When things looked darkest Wil Williams 11 hams liams made the deal with the Colorado Mining company by which the Success property passed Into the control of the Colorado people At that time the great strike had not been made in the Colorado mine The shares hares were selling I at 25 2 cents and the shares of Colo Cob Colorado Colorado rado ralo stock given J en for the Success mine represented about 5 cents a share for Suc Sue Success Success cess stock at the then prevailing price After the strike was made in the Colo Cob Colorado Colorado rado mine the Colorado stock went up to toS S 1 a share Had the stock been disposed of oe at that time for the benefit of Urn time th Success stockholders ft rt would have meant that they the would have received 2 for each share of ot Success stock for which 10 cents had been paid Unluckily for most of the Success stock stockholders stockholders stockholders holders considerable time passed before it became known that the deal had been made with the Colorado company Suc Sue Success Success cess holders saw the boom in Colorado shares without knowing that they were financially Interested In the upward move movement movement movement ment Some Secured Settlement Some of the Success s holders hoMers however did learn of the deal and managed to get their portions of the shares sh res but most of ot them received 1 no settlement If the shares had been sold when the market was p at Its Us best they would have Im brought brou ht a cash total of It Is not known when Williams disposed of the stock but it i 1 known that he lie sold most of it This fact is shown by bv the statement of the officers of or the Colorado company at Provo to representatives of Success hold holders holders ers rs who failed to get an accounting that the block of shares set aside to be used in payment for the Success property had been delivered to Williams Williams when later asked for these I shares sha e denied that they the were In his pos possession possessIOn possession session This Tills statement of Williams Is accept accepted ed Id as IS indicating that he disposed sed of the stock after It had been placed In his hands But nobody seems to know whether he hI sold the stock before the lh boom in prices or afterward The time ot ox his selling is looked upon as an im Ira important important matter If JC he sold before tIme tIll advance in Colorado shares he could not have a large l rge sum of money mone If afterward he must have left Salt Lake with a substantial fortune Lived Beyond His Means Men who knew Williams say that he lie lived far beyond his means spending large sums among convivial companions One substantial business man who lived near Williams for years said yesterday esterday that he would while dissipating stay away HWa from his home for days at a time This neighbor of Williams added that Continued on Page 2 SWISH OF SKIRTS IN DISAPPEARANCE Continued From Page 1 his Intimates had often predicted that he could not keep up UIl his George W V Reed who owned shares of Success stock had an experience experience experience ence with Williams which throws some light upon the missing agents methods Reed Heed on learning that he was entitled to 1065 1063 shares In the Colorado company compan went to Williams before engaging an at attorney attorn attorney torney torn e and demanded an accounting Williams made some excuse for defer deferring deferring deferring ring the settlement Soon after leaving Williams Reed was approached by a n aman aman man who offered to pay him 1200 for his claim against Williams This Reed re refused refused refused fused A number of other persons persona who should have profited substantially by the Colo Cole deal have hae now nothing to show except claims against Williams William McAllister has a claim of ot I He has a better prospect of get getting gettin getting ting tin his money than other shareholders I as Williams before disappearing gave I him an Instrument by which McAllis McAllister ter was Va to t collect the money from the revenues of Williams Idaho ranch S No Woman With Him Richard J 1 Evans of ot the son company who rode from Salt Lake to Chicago with Williams said yester yesterday yesterday yesterday day that there was no w woman man on the train with the missing agent As Wil VII Williams Hams liams was tho only man on the train with whom Mr Ir Evans was acquainted the two men were much together during the two days das of the Journey journe Mr Evans said that if Williams had a female com coin companion companion panion he would certainly have hae known It Mr Evans Evana passed through Chicago going straight to New York Williams parted with him at Chicago High Roller Williams In many towns tol S of Utah Idaho and Nevada Williams was known as High Roller Williams He was famous throughout the Intermountain states for forthe forthe forthe the reckless manner In which he squall squandered dered money mone On arriving at a town ac according according according cording to Salt Lake business men who have traveled with him he would not go goto goto goto to the stores of ot the merchants but would send hacks or carriages for them Then be ho would fill them with wine feast them tell them amusing stories and closing his contracts with them before the cold gray gra graydawn graydawn dawn of ot the morning after flit to another town where he would repeat the per performance performance performance A man connected with one of the tele telephone telephone telephone phone companies says that he met Wit Wil Williams Withams hams liams in Ogden a short time ago Wil Williams Williams liams llama was literally throwing his money away The telephone man fearing that If he attempted to keep up the pace set by Williams he would the next day face race bankruptcy slipped away and retired The next day da on getting up for tor break breakfast fast he met Williams who had not been to bed The Tho agent showed little trace of the nights revelry r |