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_ Fortune if he Ransons Russian 
_-~—sd Banker in Spain. 
_ Charles C. Dodge of the Dodge 
_ Furniture Co., Manchester, has re- 
ceived a very generous offer this 
- week from a Russian banker, now 
_ imprisoned in Spain. It is the old 
story that has caught so many in the 
past. The letter, which is to be 
handed over to the postal authoriti- 
es, is as follows: 
mss Madrid, Nov. 20, 1910 
_ Dear Sir: 
Although I know you only from 
- good reference of your honesty, my 
- sad situation compels me to reveal 
you an important affair in which you 
ean procure a modest fortune, saving 
- at the same time that of my darling 
daughter. 
’ Before being imprisoned here I 
was established as a Banker in Rus- 
sia as you will see by the inclosed 
article about me of many Englisn 
newspapers which have published 
my arrest in London. 
I beseech you to help me to obtain 
~ asum of $480,000 I have in America 
and to come here to raise the seizure 
of my baggage, paying to the Regis- 
 trar of the Court the expenses of my 
trial and recover my portmanteau 
‘containing a secret pocket where I 
have hidden the document indispen- 
sable to recover the said sum. 
* Asa reward I will give up to you 
» the third part, viz: $160,000. I can- 
“not receive your answer in the pri- 
son, but you must send a cablegram 
to a person of my confidence who 
will deliver it to me. 
Awaiting your cable to intrust you 
in all my secret, I am, sir, 
XS Yours truly, 
Demidoff. 
e. P. S. First of all answer by cable, 
not by letter. 
e+ (The clipping) 
_ ARREST OF A ST. PETESBOURG 
Bie: BANKER. 
Charged with Fraud in Russia and 
' Manslaughter in Spain. 
Interview of the two Ambassadors. 
Some months ago, as our readers 
may remember we refered in these 
 eolumns to the great scandal caused, 
in St. Petersbourg, and in Russia 
generally, by a noted Banker. who 
_ absconded, leaving a deficit of over 
five millions of rubles. 
| The Russian Police sought for him 
for a long time in vain for it seemed 
“he had not left the least trace of his 
. flight and the continued search over 
Europe and America proved -unveil- 
ofin: 
g. : 
Yesterday, however a Spanish In- 
“Manchester Man Receives Offer of spector accompanied by two officers 
from Seotland Yard and acting un- 
der instructions of the Spanish Am- 
bassador, who had previously inter- 
viewed the Home Secretary arrested 
» him on his way from the Hotel where 
he was staying, to the Steamship 
office. It seems that it was his evi- 
dent intention to take passage for 
New York. From information re- 
ceived by the Ambassador, he had 
been in hiding in Spain, where he 
lived with a woman and with his 
daughter. A few days before arriv- 
ing in London he had quarreled with 
another Russian, who was mortally 
wounded by a revolver shot during 
the scuffle, and who only lived long 
enough to denounce his assailant. 
In an interview with the Russian 
Ambassador, it seems that the name 
he had been using in Spain, and 
which he gave on being arrested 
was not his real one, Manasseina be- 
ing simply an alibi, but after com- 
paring the prisoner with photo- 
graphs in his possession, the Rus- 
sian Ambassador recognized him as 
Alexander Demidoff, the crim- 
nal banker who eloped with 5 mil- 
lions of rubles; he is a native of St. 
Petersburg, a widower 49 years old, 
with an only daughter that he left 
in Spain on escaping from that 
country. 
On being arrested, two of Man- 
asseina’s or Alexander Demidoff 
portmanteaus were seized but al- 
though strictly searched nothing 
but personal effects were found in 
them, in spite of which, the Russian 
Ambassador declares that prisoner 
ought to have several million rubles 
somewhere. 
The Russian and Spanish Am- 
bassadors conferred yesterday even- 
ing as to whether the prisoner 
should be conveyed to Spain or to 
Russia, and after an interview with 
the Home Secretary, and in accord- 
ance with the extradition treaty of 
England, Russia and Spain, it was 
agreed that the prisoner should be 
conveyed to Spain, to stand his trial 
for manslaughter, and that only af- 
ter his trial can the Russian Gov- 
ernment ask Spain, through diplo- 
matie channels, for his extradition. 
Y. M. C. A. Notes. 
Supt. of schools John C. Mackin 
gave an interesting talk before ihe 
Manchester Y. M. C. A. boys at their 
meeting last Friday evening on 
‘““Problems of Education’’, — after 
which the orchestra furnished sever- 
al selections, and singing was enjoy- 
ed. F. Leonard Floyd was. appoint- 
ed reporter. The delegates to the 
day season. 
‘this winter. 
09 
recent convention read very interest- 
ing reports. The boys will not meet 
this evening on account of the holi- 
It is expected that a 
Harvard student will address the 
boys at their meeting next Friday 
evening. A committee of charter 
members has been formed to consid- 
er the matter of initiation. The com- 
mittee consists of John Carter 
(chairman), Winthrop Younger, 
Bernard Tyler, F. Leonard Floyd, 
and Allen McKinnon. 
A Business Course. 
Many young men and women :1i 
Manchester and along the North 
Shore who are undecided as to their 
future course, would do well to 2on- 
sider the great benefits accruing 
from a term at a Commercial School 
A course of ten or 12 
weeks in a business college may be 
obtained at a very small cost and 
think of the permanent future value 
to the one taking it. One of ite 
finest business colleges in New Eng- 
land is the Salem Commercial School. 
We understand that visitors will be 
welcome at the school all next week. 
The winter term begins Jan. 2. 
Think it over! 
A goop editorial, combining an in- 
teresting statement of facts, with a 
sane conclusion based upon facts, 
is that published in the last issue of 
the Saturday Evening Post. Read 
it: 
Within ten years a thousand mil- 
lion tons of coal have been added to 
the fuel supply of the United States. 
Of course, the coal was there all 
along and its existence was long 
known; but its steam-producing 
power was so low that it was con- 
sidered practically worthless. 
It was added to our fuel supply 
by a number of scientific persons 
who kept on experimenting until 
they discovered that, if burned in a 
vas producer, this low-grade coal 
would yield more power, ton -for 
ton, than the best steam coal .when 
burned under a boiler. Of first-rate 
coal, four pounds and a half were 
burned to get a horse-power in 
steam; of lignite, practically worth- 
less for steam, three pounds and a 
half to get a horsepower in gas. This 
fuel supply was created, so to speak, 
by the hard thinking of compara- 
‘tively few men in a back room. 
Opportunity is what every man 
who isn’t a loafer wants—a store to 
run, a coal mine to operate. This is 
merely a Christmas suggestion that 
the coal mine is in his head if he 
will look diligently for it. 
