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Show SCOTTY WEAKENS AND TELLS STORY Gives Loc Angetcs Grand Jury Inclde Facts of Faking Career. The mystery that has surrounded "Death Valley" Scotty since his sudden sud-den rise to fame a few years ago when ho chartered a special train and made a spectacular dsah across tho continent has been solved. Scotty Scot-ty is under arrest In Los Angeles and Is being investigated by the grand Jury there in connection with the probing into the affairs of the Death Valley Scotty Gold, Mining and Development Devel-opment company. The Los Angeles Times has the following to say regarding re-garding Scott "Death Valloy Scotty" told to tho county grand Jury today that A. M. Johnston, president of thc National Life Insurance company at Chicago, has grubstaked him for years and that E. Burt Gaylord, a mining engineer en-gineer of New York, who Is said to have squandered nearly two million dollars, put up the $10,000 which Scotty paid for thc special train In which the Death valley man made his spectacular trip across tho continent sevoral years ago. Scotty also testified that ho had tried to persuade the offlcors of the Death Valley Gold Mining and Development Devel-opment companh to locato a few mining min-ing claims In Death alley in ordor lo glvo the mining scheme thc appear, ance of genuineness, but 'alleged that they refused to do so. saying It was unnecessary. F. C. Goodwin, secretary secre-tary of thc company Is before tho grand jury this afternoon with books and records of tho company. Scottv told the grand jury today that his "hole In the ground down in "Death valloy" Is a myth, which has been used for soveral years to fill tho pockets of promoters. Scotty was brought from jail beforo the Investigating body In connection with the probe Into the affairs of the Death Valley Scotty Gold Mining and Developing company, whose vice president and secretary testified thoy had paid $25,000 to tho Death valley man Juno 1 of this year. |