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Show 1I0MB0LB ATTEMPT 1 1 MADE TO WORK SWINDLE if ON THE STOCK EXCHANGE -Storyjf Burning of Ccn-K Ccn-K tury Mill Plant Is Be-; Be-; licved to Be a Fake; i vjvernors Arc Makinj f nhorpugh IriTcstigation l developments today tend to show that the telegram sent to this city yesterday, aying the. Century mill had been burned) .wag a fake, and that another fraud With even more serious results than the Wabash affair of several weeks ago, 'has been perpetrated upon the . public. - ' . It is ;also 'believed that the man who signed the name "R. Hardy" to the tel-gram tel-gram is the paid confederate of stock "sharkskin this city, who hoped to reap big profits from the drop which such a reports would cause In Century stock. Officials of $he Century believe that the name of O. R. Hardy was forged to the message by. some one representing the conspirators. Madssn Is Suspicious. This story seems probable today in view, of .a .telegram from President P. W; Madsen wof the,Century. who left ' for the property last night. The. telegram was sent from Kelton. the, nearest', settlement to the Century mill, at about 8 o'clock this morning. It :. -I DON'T. BELIEVE. THE MILL IS BURNED; MAN WHO SENT THE TELEGRAM IS UNKNOWN HERE." A similar' telegram came from E. Q. Knowlton.from Kelton to Broker A. S. Cajhpbell.. . Goyernsri HcJd Conference. 9 "soon as the messages were re-il re-il they were read on the exchange, and the ; brokers were left to guess whether er not the- mill had been destroyed de-stroyed 1 Y. .- . j The evidence that another fraud had been successfully worked makes the brokers and stock ; buyers thoroughly Indignant., and the board! of directors of the exchange immediately held a secret session, to decide upon some action in the affair. Will Make Investigation. Herman Bamberger, one of the directors, di-rectors, said after the meeting: "WE HAVE DECIDED TO GIVE THIS AFFAIR A THOROUGH INVESTIGATION.- IF THAT MILL HAS NOT" BEEN BURNED, THE PARTIES TVHO SENT THAT FAKE MESSAGE WjLL WISH rTHEY HAD BEEN BURNED BEFORE WE GET THROUGH WITH THEM. . "We have-sent a representative to the Western Union,; to. solicit its aid, and are now awaiting further word from th Century mine. Will Employ a Detective. "If he next telegram that comes confirms con-firms Mr. Madsen's last message, we will send a detective up there at once, and the Investigators will make it uncomfortable un-comfortable for some one. "I have my personal views as to the guilty parties, but I will keep them to myself for the present." Believed It a Fake. jt. S. Campbell declared today that he be'vVted the telegram sent down yes-tSf4fay yes-tSf4fay a fake as soon as he saw it. yn the first place," he said, "It was signed "R. Hardy. I know Roy Hardy never signs his name that . way. Every signature of his I could find was O. R. Hardy. There were other peculiar things about that message, which made me; believe It a fake, and I told the Century Cen-tury people last night: that I 'believed the mUl was not burned." Drop in Stock Prices. As a result of the report. Century took went-from 74 cents, at which It sold on : the morning: call yesterday, to 4o'eent, a drop of. 30 cents, and the sales at th low figure made yesterday afternoon and this morning amounted to 'about tOOO shares. If the report, however, had not been contradicted this morning the sales would have been much heavier. |