Show GOLD BRICK SWINDLE A rumor that there has been a corn promise gold brick leonard the old gray haired sinner with a face on him like a cranberry marsh is traveling in of banker george C whitmore of nephi so says larry kins and so it wax announced in tho district court this morning when tha aee of the people amuat william hill an enterprising capper of provo and qa 0 whitmore the dupa both charged with battery was called the proceedings edinga thua far in thib aea rational gat ional case have been nettling more than a ries of continuances the d tenae having twice secured them whiled ibis morning jLe stant district attorney caught the speakers eye nd stated that william leonard the prosecuting had absented bini belf and it waa impassible fur him to proceed judge rowers representing banker VV hilmore volunteered with an air 0 dendiak eliut the noted nit ness in cicack Ci caco but after a whispered conversation with a neighboring lawyer added that bill was in europe the motion for continuance having prevailed the judge closed hia office cal ender and wa about to depart when the interviewer seized him have the actions against the banker been was asked no they are bob for trial in prove has there been a not that im aware of replied cudse powers with that indefinable twinkle in his eye Is it true that gold brick leonard tapped the banker for another elake and then skipped the countey youre too hard for me ahe interviewer tapped another source of information and learned chati leonard was really traveling through europa for bia health how did th ancient bloke ris tb wind through the banker A compromise W e allye s tha term and the common blackmail rank blackmail so blackmail was audd to duplicity gold brick swindling etca iye heard BO how was is done very cleverly the damage suits I 1 am informed were a thorn in the respondent spon dent s sido ard ar d bill drew on him for to leave the country possible how did you learn this in the round about way are you with colonel ed kelley reporter confessed the boner you have met him then ask hiaam to show yon the contract that bill left in his safe What doea it stipulate that for and in consideration a bill leonard shall vacate america and that ane prosecutions bribing from the gold brick swindle in which whitmore was duped be abandoned daes larry king get his amnesty under it ive heard that was a condition under the contract any onealea one elea the whole kit and boodle and ahns the curtain drops on one of tha cleverest geld baiek ver turned on the frontier aalt lake times |