| Show Two FACE FRAUD CHARGE ALLEGiNG SALTED GOLD ORE Complaints charging James McCay McCoy and William WilHam Mahoney Mahone alias anas Connors with an attempt to defraud the American Amer Amor- ican lean Smelting and Refining company by salting and changing assay samples sam sam- pIes ples t taken from a carload of ore shipped by Connors to the Garfield smelter from froni a mine near Ely Nev were Issued this morning by County Attorney A. A W W. Moreton It Is alleged that Connors and McCoy tampered with samples for the purpose of de de- de I what price was to to tobe be paid by the smelting company and the method employed to give the submitted I ore a higher value consisted of sprInkling sprinkling sprinkling sprin- sprin kling pounds of ore pulp with gold dust dusL I McCoy l and Connors 1 were arrested 1 yesterday esterday afternoon by Detectives Roy i L. L Larson Clifford W. W Patton and Herbert Herbert Her Her- I I bert Leichter special investigator for tor I the county attorneys attorney's office ottice AccordIng Accord Accord- Ing lug to the I investigators the salting Accord I i was done for the purpose of disposing of ot a Nevada mining property for tor i i to a syndicate I DICTAPHONE INSTALLED A dictaphone placed in the room oc oc- oc cupi d by y l McCoy cCO at a do downtown nto n 1 hotel ot l a drinking party part in Sn the room in which women were involved d all played a p part rt in ia the arrest of the accused together with a Salt Lake mining man against I whom the police were unable to find anythIng which anything which would justify including him in the complaint be held I however for tor further questioning and andas I Iasa as asa as-a a probable material witness while I McCoy and Connors will be held for I trial I I At the hotel where the dictaphone was installed several meetings were held at which discussions took place I I which led the police to strengthen their suspicion that McCoy and Connors Connors Con Con- Con I nors had deli deliberately salted the ore ore and were preparing to make their getaway get get- get I way away 1 as soon as the check for the ore came came from the smelting company Pay I for the ore was due Tuesday but this i was deferred by the smelting company on the pretext that another assay would be necessary before settlement I could coula be made 1 McCoy Coy was so Informed In In- In formed by the smelter ter people and he in turn called up Connors at the HollywoOd Hol Hol- lywood apartments ts McCoy suggested that a iL trip to the smelter be made but Connors thought otherwise as he was confident that the complete carload o 0 of ore had been mixed with other ore shipments and gone through the ter I Iter VISIT GARFIELD SMELTER McCoy aud and Conners Conners' gained d entry to the smelter through the offices of the Salt Lake mining man who took them to th the plant and introduced them as mining men from Nevada of rep reputable character The fact tact that the Salt Lake Lakeman man mair had acted as the gO-b gO between go-between tween Involved involved in involved in- in him and he was taken Into custody cus cus- I cus-I tody He Is alle alleged to have associated i constantly with McCoy and Connors and andis l Is said to ta h have ve been the instigator of the drinking party at McCoys McCoy's I room I Investigators report that McCoy and Conn Connors rs twice Visited the Garfield smelter before trying to sell their ore Te They were were ready to ship fifteen cars every ten days day or two weeks ks if a satisfactory satisfactory sat sat- sat sat- contract could b be made with the smelter Sunday Sunda a a. carload of ore arrived d at the tha smelter which they claimed came from their dump at the mine near Ely They were wera confident nt that the ore would run about bout 60 to th the ton In gold This shipment was sampled Monday In hi the presence of McCoy and Connors it is alleged and after the necessary quartering had been done and the ore reduced to pulp McCoy and Connors sprinkled enough gold dust In Jn the sample to bring it up to the estimated d. d value The ore did not show up well and the company b became came suspicious The first sample showed In analysis to test about 26 28 The reject was then held up for another t test st and this showed a gold content of about 2 a ton Connors said that he had be been n as- as aured on a test made in San Francisco Fran Fran- cisco that the tilE dump samples samples' showed an assay of 60 but he could not produce produce produce pro pro- duce the essay receipt or certificate The American Smelting and t RefinIng Refining ing company will send a man than man to Ely tomorrow to Investigate the mine from fron which th the ore shipments are being made The property is said to be located lo IQ- IQ thirty miles from Ely near Cherry Cherry Cher Cher- ry cr creek ek and twelve miles from a rail rail- ro road d d. d McCoy and Connors ConnorR shinned their ore to Garfield at tn a total cost ost of 1780 Overland by ore teams to the railroad the freight Is a ton From Nevada to Garfield the rail railI I freight Is and rid the smelter charge harge McCoy and Connors pay an fl additional 1 a ton royalty to the origInal original original inal lessor leaser of ot the property Connors said that thit he had leased the mine from froma a a. a third party who has taken the lease from the that he first leasor H He Ho said had taken an an option on the property from the original leasor who is said to have held the original option The lease and option had been taken over overby overby overby by Connors he said on the word of the man who had taken over the prop- prop erty In the first Instance |
