Show SMOOTH SWINDLER organized a class in electrical engineering at los angeles and skips los angeles cal june 7 some time ago a well appearing young man named T P homely came to this city representing the national electric school of chicago and soon after began organizing a class in electrical engi ne erina he met with great success and soon had a class of sixty nearly all the pupils being business men who before going into it inquired particularly if the course would be a practical one hornsby assured them that it would and also said that the lessons would be illustrated by apparatus which he would furnish the course was to coat each member of the class 20 and nearly all deposited notes in the bank which have since been paid amounting to about 1200 in all chief engineer nissley oe the los angeles railway company was engaged as teacher of the class among the members was E M wade of the firm of wade wade analytical chemists and assayers yesterday wade said hornsby who organized the chaos is gone and all his have been broken the only apparatus we have received is a little box of gewgaws gew gaws has been lecturing 0 o the class and he has not been paid for his work we have had a good deal of spicy correspondence with the national electrical school in chicago but are unable to get them to send us any apparatus or to carry out the promises of the agent we understand that he is working the same scheme in other places |