Show Tl THIS SALT LAKE GRAFTER MADE BARREL OF MONEY Gigantic Lottery LoUery Swindle Successfully Engineered From This City By A H A Curtis Thousands of Dollars Rolled In From Victims All AU Over The Country It is not Rot known knon just how many dol dollars dollars dollars lars A H Curtis separated from front his bla victims victim by means of the greatest lottery swindle ever engineered in to the west we t tHe He directed his operations from a Salt SaK Lake lodging house and the coin rolled in by the bushel It came Caine in postal or orders orders ders darn registered and unregistered mall mail mailand malland and aad express s orders and he found vic victims thus tims in every eve section of oC the Union It Itis ItI ItIs is I certain that when he suddenly faded from view vie he carried thousands of dol dollars dolIan dolian Ian lars with him He has as amassed a for fortune fortune fortune tune from his daring darin scheme The cash h kept right on coming coning after alter his depar departure departure departure ture and he turned down a barrel of coin by leaving the city Salt SHU Lake has been the scene oC of o many manya a successful ful attempt on the tM part of grafters but none quite so Successful I Ithe the chances are as this fake lottery game which A H Curtis Has alias J E Meyer has bas worked through Zion due dur during I II lag ing I the past sixty days In ID this case Salt Lakers are not the victims but Mit the I city has bas been made the center of a net I extending from one coast to the other ther into which perhaps thousands of suck suckers suckers ers have fallen The crook at the head bead of it has bu made mad a fortune in less than a j month menth I It was about three weeks week before UM holiday season S commenced that a I handsome fellow he heis is I the gentleman crook applied for I lodgings at Wi South Main Iab street in inthis Inthis I this city He engaged the best sleep sleeping sleeping ing InK apartment in the house home but lived I almost the life liCe of a hermit He never Rever I showed himself lf more than was necessary nee necessary e sary ary and talked to no one in the house bouse I further than to pass pa the time U of day d About himself he was as especially e I rent cent He Ht did say sa he had come from i iIa California scheme Ia and was working on an all oil oU j Money Rolled Billed In Before he had b been en in the th house h u e a great many days Mr A H Curd Cora began be began gan to receive mall It came in to 11 Van ban bantiles dies tiles sometimes mm as many as two twe posea letters a day and the number in increased crea creased ed rather than diminished He lie paid his room rent sometimes in Ip post poet postoffice office orders or in express mousy money rno ey or orders orders ders Sets and the more mail man he received r hed the more mure prosperous he seemed to be become mine come I IOn On the Ole Monday before Christmas went away awa He told the land landlady landlady landlady lady he was going to Ogden and asked her 1 t to send all the mall that rame amE for him t to tJ that place in the name of or J E EC C Meyer care of general Jeneral delivery His HiN reason realOn for doing this he said was that he could not pay taxes on certain property he owned juet just at that time i and he did not want the officials official of Ogden to know that he was in the city 1 Flimsy as was as the explanation it was 1 not the place of the landlady to ask askI I He left a little extra money j i to cover the expense ex Dense of oC purchasing alamos stamos and the letters and then he faded from view vie He told the landlady he would return Christmas day and he wanted the mail mall sent to him only up to that time This is the last lut seen of Curtis but buthis buthis buthis his deeds lived Jived after him Since the time of his disappearance the landlady has baa received possibly a bushel of let letters letters tees and packages es of ot all descriptions Until Christmas day da she forwarded them to J E F Meyer at Ogden as re requested requested requested quested After that she site simply sent them back to the Some S packages containing money monc reached rea his address on Main street through the express s offices emcee and these the landlady sent back They are still sUII in the office awaiting the claimant as asis asis is 15 much of his mail mall Curtis did not return to Salt Lake Christmas day da daHis His Scheme Exposed Yesterday the story came out A Aletter Aletter letter tetter was received in this city from froman froman an Illinois town ton asking for an Ines investigation and it contained a copy of ot a printed circular letter such as Curtis has sent Ment all allover over the country principally pally to hotel keepers The letterhead heads Office of the original Little Louisi Louisiana ana araa D Lottery company compan of Honduras Mexico United States branch office South Main street Salt Lake City Utah A H Curtis general manager and agent for the United States Cap Capital CapItal Capital ital prize for January mi uteri 3 The letter is then dated Salt Lake Dec ft 3 1900 1500 and is addressed addre sed to a hotel in the town referred ref to Here HeN is i his proposition fraudulent on the face of it Ito Dear r Sir Sire We would be plea pleased d to establish es tS an agency in your town and aDd we will Beret agree to make meke it U an object to you youat at t our n next regular mo monthly drawing Jam t 1501 If It you agree to accept the for one o year ar we will n send you tUl as follows follow for January drawing Twenty sac ten lee and aDd five SitO tick Ock et To tickets amount w we agree to send fiend you on receipt of SILiO WK WF GIVE YOI YOC TEX TEN 51 c TICKETS FREE OF CHARGE CH RGE AND ASK YOU YOe TO KEEP ALL TEN OF THESE TICK TICKETS TICKETS ETS For Jor these reasons we are going to place places a pr of 15 in your town t therefore e we MIC aak s you o to keep all rl ten of these tic tickets as ate one oi of them then w wen n POSITIVELY WIN Wig THE PRIZE OF OP on Tuesday Jan 8 S l J t Why Wh do we do this Be cr et 1 page labE i THIS SALT SAt T LA f MADE OF I MONEY MOtEY I Continued from Irom 1 cause 9 you are in a position to do UE us more good in m your town and nearby towns than ary ry one else we know Af Afi f fl i l hen Ihen again as IU you come In contact with i great many commercial men town and ll people we came cante 10 to the OH lit to make it an object to you at our ourn ourI n tl I regular r monthly drawing Tuesday eJr n 3 Jin i n As a mailer Statler ot of fact act after ii acc IC c a S prise is won in a town to and it is made incle known to the people that a prise Ia i tv ben been won WOO by you ou it is an easy essy mat mati i Ir r to do business bu after that We got to tomake tomake tomake make a hit we do the business af at afU U All li we e want is a good nun whom we welan tar lan depend on and we wc will wilt pay pey him well welt welli weltI i Ir 1 what little time it takes to look Jook After t lIr ur interests tS there All AH those th to whom jou Oll sell ecU tickets inform them that they the i an 1 I obtain a list of the January drawing Horn wm f you as we will send nd you a lot Jot of oft t h drawing by b express prepaid Try and n nd get t some nearby towns if it you can here where w you can mu place on sale tickets for hi Joe 1 February drawing Will ilI allow you yeu i per ter er cent commission on all aU tickets you youIl youIl Il u Il in February F and will send you ou ouI as asmin s I min a n liv tickets as you want All Alt unsold u I are returnable la 13 us U a S day before the t drawing takes place We issue tick 14 liS as follows S SOc iLlO LW and tOO 00 You can wm wIn In lets on a azOO ticket on a aJl atu Jl lW tu w ticket ea on a SOc ticket 01 UI a Sc C ticket if I 1 r I you are in a position to accept the thea a fill till out nut the blank and return to us by Brat mail II with an ex cx express press more mercy order for and lid we will wilt willin I Ii in ill i return send setul you ou by b FIRST EXPRESS THE TICKETS as follows j Twenty ten IOu and five SIM tick if It If Jf you think you ran can use more tickets for January drawing let me know koo Jut Hut you will be surprised to Und nod the I number of tickets you ou will sell ell for Cor the ther r drawing The tickets which we w ask you to keep are all sit stamped on the th back IN RED INK SPECIAL heu you yu send in your o ticket et for tte i give ghe it ler to your u express p agent tC there therein I and in l take a receipt for the t same so in inc f c te e it is lost 08 you will get the money e for forit i r it just the same Will I nay my if you cant a to It can you jou OU place the t agency I Isome i ome some good bands for us uS Hoping you your 00 I Ire re irs r in m a position po to take it and do all I Im j m cab h for us on that end eM nd that you Y U ft iii ili be able to let Jet me know at an early date Take my advice Oil nil out the blank blankI I tIll lid 4 send it at once for those le 31 Special tickets Those few tickets are just to tart art things thine 9 off of there You will do all kinds of business after fter the January draw in 11 Trusting to hear bear from you request inc in those tickets I 1 am Yours You respect I Iti 11 A H CURTIS I 24 47 South Main aln Street Street Salt itC Lake City ity Utah 1 1 S u have no time to lose 1086 if It you yon want Wint the tickets for the January draw drawing drawIng drawing ing They are re now read to be sent As previously stated the letter is printed and thousands have hae been sent ent sentI out nut I to addresses addres es procured from front hotel books In one corner comer of the letter Cur Curtis Curtis Curtis b writes write In ba ink Show this letter io to toUt o ono Ut no one ODe and oblige Pound Many aay Suckers It is astonishing that so ao u people would bite at the graft aft r reading the crude but oily proposition Yet it may be safely assumed a that tbt the great preat amount of mall mail which came to hint him was f n m parties who responded re with willi the thein i om in about Of Ot course e they never h beard ht ard anI from Curtis again The special l tickets through which the man who bit bita W V a to receive S II never existed and andI I v who went ent Into the I in tion t was w duped Th letter which gave the snap away 11 i ome orne feora one of or his victims Falling Failing 11 io to 14 h t tai iU u from Curtis after sending bending him hiAt H Sl t 5 this man sent t the above letter Jetter letteron letterI on nn I fl t tI a S friend in Salt Lake to see He if ift i t here her w is any such lottery combination IS Is liable to the Ute law from any tan int nt Eves EveR were his proposition on un tl tho H square qU re he could be prosecuted l tr tor r us U ung ng the mail to advertise e lot lott lotI t I Irie rie arl a r Z all those who have written him ao epting the agency as habl to t the he federal laws This Tl to Is probably probably pr ably the he I reason Nason so 80 little noise has nu been beset about the graft Th Tb letters lettera were evidently printed h IW hv S Salt Sa a I t Lake m m r na a s Curtis could not h i nt known before reaching here i hat 11 lils iii headquarters would be at 24 Soul h i Main a transient lodging house bOet Ci V t tto to in an old eld d telegraph operator 4 lie He Id U about ut n 32 S 3 years year ef ag age and stands stand r iT five fie feet St eji or eight inches He is well ell proportioned He wears a adark adark dark brown bron moustache of medium weight but his hair is quite quit dark ark His Hk eyes are brown He dresses m lit black usually and always looks Inks neat The distinguishing hint feature of Curtis description however is that his right band is missing just above the wrist He tells that it was cut off while white he was jumping on a freight fn train He Hevery Hevery Hevery very seldom eldom shows How Mb blo tight right lat stump tUmp carrying it in his pocket evidently with witha a desire to conceal the fact that his land hand to is It is 18 understood that the postal au authorities thoriUm are on OR the tile trail of Curtis Cur l lO O |