1449 EDMONTON DAILY
DEC 18, 1907

ELLIOTT, Cecil
HOPKINS, Norman
HOPKINS, Albert
COLOUGH, William Col.

Toronto, Dec 18 After a protracted hearing in which a large 
number of witnesses heard on both sides the jury tonight 
returned a verdict of guilty against Cecil Elliott, Norman and 
Albert Hopkins, charged with conspiring to defraud the 
Toronto Railway Co. and two insurance companies by means 
of fake accidents on street cars. The charge arose out of two 
accidents that happened recently to Elliott and Norman 
Hopkins respectively, for while claims were sent into the 
railway company and two accident insurances companies. 

St. Paul Dec 18 Col. William Clough one of the pioneer 
railway builders of Minnesota and St. Paul and an early 
settler is dead at Portland Ore, aged 76. He had been ill health 
for several years and twelve years ago went to Portland in the 
hope of improving his health. At the time of his death he was 
assistant to the President of the Oregon Railway and 
Navigation Co. the body will be brought to St. Paul for burial.