| Show DEATH A FRAU FRAUM M HID Discoverer of the lie Gold West Vest linden Ind Sp to tIme the Post Dispatch Van Huron In ln Inventor venter of the gull gold brick by his fraud was burled re me recently In the tho lotters held heue He lie camo Caine here hen Item from Chicago In Iii search of health stud and died In absolute poverty was 01 rested more micro than in Chicago and was known us Otto one of the elo crest confidence men In the hue country He lie traveled under several aliases hut but was best known as Old Trip originated the gold brick swindle many yearn ago ngo hut not till after n a decade hill did h lu declare It perfect At first he hut wore n a miners makeup and Interested sortie gullible persons In Ina ina a western gold wino mine Then he 15 took thu stranger out nut to the mine hod the tho output assayed atud at length disposed deposed of the tho gold brick As he gained con confidence with the trip rind and sold cold his bricks freely Indiana was satt the fruitful Held field of his Old Olti confidence men way say sold worth of gold goldbricks bricks In tItle this state In said one ofle Van had one veal real gold goi brick He lie made out ot of U Uby t tb by b telling selling It to Indiana farmers who lund had li Is assayed and by the tho time tue the price was paid they the lund had n a substitute Ho was itis sent to prison only once anti and that wan In Ohio I think ho served five years Like all criminals he lie had his lilB weakness In a money way He lie was crazy on and horse horae races Out In In lIST 1887 ho hue lo lost t In three months against tho bank I front n m one of the best e that ho out of thy tho big end of thur money Thumb Think of n ii gold brick man malt losing a fortune nt at dishonest faro Ho lie lost big sums on races mares because lie hue was not a student of form or pod ped groe In pome caine town out In the hushes bushes in Missouri he n a good colt and en engaged tho old The Tho former pro pi IMor of time the colt went along and they planned to make mako a killing At the next town two horses were vere entered oth of which had been beaten blind by the tho tt purchase An owner of one bet Itis colt would beat Triplett put up III WOO and the for former flier mer owner 2000 They lost A week litter Inter Triplett loomed that he h had d boon swindled The Tue man he lie bought the tho colt from owned the colt which won and matte mado Jockey lockey pull his butt mount Triplet Triplett was ait 63 years of rut Ho lie was In the tho real estate In itt Chicago but gave It up when the demand for gold rold bricks pd Ho lie was married In hut but three days after affer th the he was wag 1 stud and his bite wife tiled ll d of disease while he hue was In jail |
