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Show WORK tr A ULACK.tf AILF.K. Mr. Tnmink l!s . m Lli Iiik to Snjr V.r- ' panting ( nrtain hiro Mmlo Ai;ust ' Hm. During he pa,t few days a great ' many marked copies of the i'iumiriiil (lli.-., ci', ; of London have been received j in this city. The paper professes to bo deuiled to the interests of mining investors in-vestors with especial reference to tho exposure ol frauds. The marked paragraph par-agraph iu the issue referred to is as follows: The IMi'lcns Ons'er m iw holds Its aniiu il Keme'al i:it'thi" thi.- mou'li. hi th- ni'ci .'.s o; tin' mIi nr -ii" ili'i'.s vu mo.iM siu."-st tdat t!.-illn t!.-illn cfii-v (,r iluc their latn ;ii,.i.ai;.r t Uim iiiiims. Mr. Nirholas Trewi-i-u. so that he c ri explain to thus- pri stMU til- a lf;.'i-ii i xtnioi li-liacy li-liacy UKinlpi' la: ions of th-i co:.ii,:m prop-Hrtv prop-Hrtv It I'. I'ommonly rnorte.l t'l.o in,n f niul ns o bi u pi ai-l I' l'il hy sorie oun und Unit liitve sums of lnoiiHy an l tmHi.m li.i In-i ll Olwrti'il trmn their i rop(.r .-Laiumi. These I'tvin'i'H liavHiK pi-oa maitu i- the pnjir.l of illre- tiiiH In wntliiir, tt is thoir duty to tiro-dui'o tiro-dui'o hlin. Will tuny do It; The marking was all done with a blue pencil and the pit pars wore ad addressed ad-dressed in tho same liand. This suggested sug-gested the thought of malice; and w hen it is remembered th.it the gentleman attacked at-tacked bears au irrepioaoUable character charac-ter to ro where he has beeo prominent ly liiiutvii for twenty years, the reader becomes convinced litat'tliere is some crooked purpose behind tho publicat ion aud circulation of the statement. Willi this thoneht in mind a representative of I'm-. Ti.MKs huntod up Mr. Trewock and requested him to make a statement that would put tho matter in the right limit. .Mr. Treweck stated that he had formerly for-merly been manager fur the ltickeus Custer company but had resigned three years ago. His accounts were allstt-tled allstt-tled up at tho time and there has bcou uo suggestion that anything was nii-satislactory. nii-satislactory. Vouchers were furnished for all expenditures aud the company was placed in possession of a complete record ol all thu business done by liiin for it. The bullion was all earned out by tho l'aeilio Kxpress company aud the record of tho shipments is complete in every detail. The settlement between be-tween himself and the company had been without friction or jar, and during all the intervening timi) no suggestion sugges-tion of dissatislactiou had tieuu made. "As to the alleged statement made to the board of directors," said Mr. Tre-week, Tre-week, "it is the work of one Dusseldorf who bai tried to blackmail me out of large sums of money. He and I were interested together in a business transaction trans-action at out! time. The matter was closed up, and when I was in London four years ago, I settled with him, and receipts for all claims were, executed. Su bsciiiiently this man set up a claim to having been a full pattner with me nnd brought suits against me aggregating aggregat-ing sf'JIiO.OOO. Thesu suits have been pending over two years, and it is signi-licaut signi-licaut that he never oilers to call tnein up lor trial though 1 have been ready at all times to delend them. " I met Colonel Shaughnessy in Xew Vork about a year ago, immediately i after his return from London. He told mo that he had seeu LHisseldorf iu l.on-don l.on-don and that tho latter had shown him a statement which ho hud drawn up lor presentation to the directors of the Dickens-Custer company. The statement state-ment made charges against mo iu connection con-nection with the management of the property ot the general character indicated by the paragraph you have shown inn. The colonel stated that Dusseldorf had asked him to see mo, to tell me that tho statement I ad been prepared and that it would lie handed iu unless I should pay him i2 .1,1100. If I would pay that sum bo would destroy the statement and withdraw with-draw nil suits. The colonel added that I Irom the tenor of the man's talk he j ' judcod ho would be willing to take I ' if .out). I told Colonel Munh- ! nessy that it was i Mack- I j mailing scheme from beginning to ' end. and that 1 had plenty of nionev to ' pay lawyers but not n cent for such i highwaymen. i "I havo received one of those papers, j Tho handwriting on the wrapper is that I : cf this blackmailer. Tho language of i tho pal agraph marked is his, ami it is 1 : evident that ho has smip'y carried out 1 his threat. Now. just let me say that a j statement made by this man carries no weiirht with anvoue who knows him. j I cau produce a dozen or more of the I most prominent bankers and uierehrtuts j of Salt Lake who know hini and who ! will state that they would not believe him under oath.'' I Mr. Treweek closed by calling attention atten-tion to the fact that the directors had not notified him of the tiling of such' a statement. 'If it h:is been tiled," he. said, "they certaiuly t would have communicated with me j if they had attached the slightest impor-i impor-i tance to it. The fact that I have not 1 heard from them indicates that thy ! know what kind of a man Dussuldorf ! is. I would be glad to have an oppor- tunity to meet any aud all charges that i have been made, and will cheerfully do ! so whenever called upon." |