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Show T (ii'LH liliiCii DEAL. A Rich Banker of Nepbi Ckvetly Dtiped by the old Baldheaded Swiudle acd its Followers, EXP03U3E CF THE C0NSPIEAOY. Tbe Spaniard, Whose Keal Identity is the Notorious Sandford, FiguruB in the Big Deal. , rnovo. April 02. -George C. Whit-more, Whit-more, president of the First National bank of N'cphi, purchased a gold brick for $(KKI0 and now ha is the proud owner of a line copper ingot and experience ex-perience enough to writ a book on "Tho Old, Old Gold Brick Game." A fellow who gave bis name as Henry Johnson came hero Monday morning and empiiriiig for a stockman named Whiuuoro was sent on to Nephi. lie. found W'hitmore and told him a long story. His companion, ho, said, was a Spaniard named Da Macha N'aha. and they had found a gold mine in Texas. They had a brick with ilium and wauled to sell it. Whitruore cauio to Provo with Johnson John-son and visited the place where the two men were staying. Two gold bricks utid a drill were produced. Whitmoro started drilling into the bars and carefully care-fully placing the fragments in an envelope, en-velope, started for tow n to have them tested. An arrangement was entered into that it the bars proved lo be as represented that he would give them $(ii)(iO in part payment. Reaching i'rovo, W'hitmore and Turner went to Mr. Heck, this jeweler, and bad him put the drillings to the test. Sure enough it was gold, and yesterday morning early W'hitmore want to the residence of Cashier Cash-ier Dusenbury of the First National bank and told him ho wauted liiOOO in currency. Tbe money desired was hauded over, and down to the abiding place of these two men went W hitmore and Turner. Tho money was turned over and the gold bricks given up. Keaching town the precious freight was placed in the National bank. Colonel Moore, of tho U. N. and C, looked at them and took a few tilings from them which he placed iu acid. Alas' The gold bricks were nothing more than copper. Tho news was soon carried to Whjtmore and now scouts are out evcrywdiere on tho trail of tho men. The bricks are about four inches square and sixteen inches long, weighing weigh-ing thirty-six and thirty-eight pounds respectively. Were they the good stuff represented, they would fetch about 524,000. , It was not until late in the afternoon when dusk was offering its black domino to the desperate fugitives that news of the swindle reached the city, and a few irtomentsf later ttib '"autfibritles. It was an exciting moment for them and tho trail was followed in ail directions. On the arrival of the regular passenger passen-ger train from I'rovo a party of three appeared at the county jail and turned over a prisoner. It was the clever chevallier who had so cleverly impersonated the "Spaniard" in tho plot and when searched $SU0 was found on his person. Ho gave the name of Tom Leonard, but bah! it was Jim Sandford, a life-long confidence man and swindler who learned his best les-! les-! sons from the notorious Canada Hill. His victim and Officer Hills of Provo had captured him on the train. With this bird sale in the confines of the cage his captors delivered full particulars. It was ascertained that, a co-conspirator who did his work under the uom de plume of Allen, with a heavy black beard, had flown, in company with a pal who had kept under cover, from Provo to Lehi where they hired a boy to drive them to Salt Lake. They arrived ar-rived in Zinn about 5;20 and immediately immed-iately proceeded to hunt up a disguise. A few clips of barbers' shears and , a swathe of the razor and the bearded Allen was as smooth shoven as a nigger singer. A fellow answering his description descrip-tion was trailed to Hot Springs and Marshal Young took that route while Sheriff Hurt hold the depots under surveillance. At Hot Springs it was ascertained that the bird had engaged Mr. Carrigan, the liveryman to drive him to F aruiington. The' marshal mounted the saddln at this point and was followed by Landlord Pratt of the Springs in a conveyance. It was a desperate ride to Farinington. The smooth-facod fugitive had just left with a boy driver for Layton. At Lay- ; ton h e hired an old man lo drive him to Ogden. On tho trail the marshal and Mr. Pratt sped. In the meantime Detective Frank : had been dispatched by Hauker Whitmoro Whit-moro to Ogden. Arriving at that place he recruited a sneeial officer and. Ilininil inir tonlf the road leading t!o Zion. They had proceeded but a short distance when they were confronted by a wagon ami team. Throwing their guns into tho faces of the occupants they ordered hands up. "You don't want us," protested Allen, "we are blacksmiths down at Layton, ain't we old man?" ' The old man acquiscod and tho detective grasping tho baud of his newly elected accomplice he rubbed the hornv palm. That bore out Allen's story and the officers rode on. They came face to face with a horseman. horse-man. It was Marshal Young. They told him of the episode. It was Allen and putting whip to their animals the party of three went like a thunderbolt into Ogden. Through its thoroughfares the search was continued, but Allen hail disappeared. The authorities at Ogden were promptly notified and were Boon joined by Sheriff Burt who returned this morning and is awaiting news of Allen's Al-len's capture which he, thinks is certain. cer-tain. Officer Hills and Mr. W'hitmore left for Provo at 10 o'clock this morning accompanied ac-companied by Sanford alias Leonard. |