Show OF ein KIN conspirators HUMAN credulity Is very vey great especially when the tho judgment is warp warped edby by cupidity or hope hopa tells tella such a flattering tale of fortune that suspicion is silenced anscom and common sene is put to sleep stories of immense sums of money to which some gome poor man or woman has fallen heir are very common in the public journals iou four mais mals it is noticeable that these great fortunes are always located abroad england ia Is generally the place where residents of the united states are to recover fabulous sums or large estates and australia figures in the ame fame way for residents of great britain in almost every instance the newspaper story is a fraud we ve do not mean to say eay that thebo these tales of sudden leaps from poverty to affluence are conco concocted ced eed by newspaper men certainly not who ever knew of a reporter fabricating a story of any kind they are generally published in good faith as told by tho the parties expectant these are the victims of an organized and unprincipled conspiracy keen artesa heartens he be artess and greedy swindlers lers in engh england and find a wide field of operations for their craft in america and australia and the parties who fall a prey to these wile aid in tho tha furtherance of the schemes by publishing their supposed good fortune to tho the world we have frequently seen abam a pamphlet which Is periodically issued by ii a firm in a long alphabetical list of lost heirs and next of kin inheritors who are wanted persons whose names answer to those found in the list many of them being the most common of cognomens omens are induced to correspond with the firm issuing tl the to pamphlet and once oneo caught in the tho thenet athenet net woven for the feet odthe of the guileless they are never bunni ered to escape until they are drained of o every drop of coin or curren currency cy which can be sucked out of them one concern of this k kind hind I 1 iid ild 1 I is called the international law agency its head bead headquarters quarters have been in birmingham thou though h a similar concern has been carried on in london people in england have been induced to pay fay pay the scoundrels connected with ranging from ten to two hundred pounds in the hope of recovering the fortunes represented to be awaiting them as beira at law or legatees lega tees the charges are for 96 rowers powers of attorney letters of administration se searches aiches and other pretended services cervices vices and documents poor foor people have been induced to sell or pawn e every very available article to pay these thesa swindlers lers for pretended legal expenses and have never discovered the shameful imposture until despoiled of the uttermost farthing claim claim a agents gents also ply their trade in new kew york and other re astern eastern cities tho the mode molde of operation of theao these shar pers is to cut out every advertisement verti published in english or other papers in relation to un claim claimed property and then if they find a person of the same name living in this country they write to him saying they have havo reason to believe that he has a claim on a cc certain r tain estate and that if he will re remit mit 3 2 or sa 3 they wilt will send further particulars tic ulars well aja 2 Is not much even if nothing comes tf of it und end as a rule rula the blit bat is swallowed and the in money oney sent bent in return the sender receives a copy of the advertisement with a notice that if ho he thinks it worth while to have a copy cory of the will wiil and other particulars a further remittance ofa of 5 or 10 will benche be sary eary andio and so the excited and expectant simpleton is led along until ho he is sucked dry like an qu granse grange and dropped ag jul jui juiceless celess and therefore useless to the swindlers swin diers lers in most moat cees the amounts paid are small and the defrauded pa pailles I 1 ties are too e and ashamed to make malie any outcry aud and KO go the spiders who mple human fills fliss are sufi buttered bied bled towal to veave ayo avo their webs webb and grow fat ou on buman human cregut credulity lity without exposure we ye draw attention to this humbug lest some bome of dar dur our oar maders readers might inight be caught with the snares refi rell thua thug bet set for the feet of the unwary alii and we warn varn all who bee eee these lines to tv beware of next of kin advertise menti and heir at law man traps any business connected with the re recovery of property really left by will wih or inheritance can be attended to by respectable attorneys or eollo igors known to the parties interested and there Is no need in the world to be drawn into the meshes of rascally claim agents or swindle swindling g Ig international law associations |