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Show FORMER WEALTHY ! MAN ARRESTED Jj Walter Geer Campbell Charged lj.il With Obtaining Money Un- !;JJ der False Pretenses, v ( jffl CLAIMS MISTAKE MADE iB Wife Left in San Francisco 1 9 Without Funds Only i " I r v Pawn Tickets Found; - flj Portland, March 24. Walter Geer " fll Campbell, who three years ago had a fortune of more than $4,000,000 was ; 1 arrested here today on a charge of . ohtaining money under false pretences In Snn Francisco. Il I "1 have nothing to say. There hat fu J been a mistake that it all," said Camp- v U bell on his arrival at the police ata tion. He said later that with the possiblo exception of a draft for $250 and a ! . check for $50 there was nothing on , which to hase charges against him that he had fled from his creditors ow f ing upward of $100,000. i San Francisco. .March 24. Waiter i Geer Campbell arrested today in Port i t land, left his wife and child here on March 9. He told her he was going to L03 Angeles on a business trip and left her but little money. Being used to an income of SI 25,000 a year, she went out the next day and spent j $100 shopping. Out of funds, she tele- j graphed her husband for more money on March 11, and tft'o or three days sfjj later the telegram came back to he? W undelivered. m Then began a search of their apart jffl meut for money. Instead she found Jjfl stacks of pawn tickets. One of her H rings had gone for $700. Instead of : JS the family silver being In the snie IH deposit vaults, as she supposed, the ; H pawn tickets showed they had been i JH .pledged. Even the baby's cradle and 1 layette, which had cost $1,000, had S- WM been bought on time and were not jjH paid in full. Watched Fortune Dwindle. For two years Campbell had been watching a fortune estimated at $t,-000,000 $t,-000,000 dwindle under the deproda- tions of Mexican roolutionists. Ap- ' JM parontly he had lacked tho courage to JM acquaint his wife with the truth of their circumstances. Shortly after receiving $550,000 in jH cash and ?,",000,090 in stock after a successful promotion, he bought 2'itl 'acres on the summit of Ben Lomond, jM a mountain overlooking Santa Cruz, and started to build Castle Campbell. 'M The foundations were laid, but work was abandoned. Thousands of dollars 'M worth of costly furnishings hauled to M tho top of the mountain are there jH 1 now, In tents, watched over by men ''B who have advanced Campbell moucy jiH since his troubles began. |