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Show TEACH CATS TO " 1 UPSET LAMPS I -in Profit in Animals Trained for Wm Incendiary Wi-rk. jjjE MANY SCHEMES TO DEFRAUD . 1 I Man Who MJkea a Spcelatty of In. JS vtatlgatlng and Procoutlna Cam- ImKt mirclat Crlma Sxpoaea fiom at tha WBu Waya In Whhth CrtdrUra Ara Da- jr frauaad OrpanlMd Gang With ' . hJK Miittr Mind In Control Optrataa i MJI In Many ef Largtr Cltlea. ' SB Declaring that the present pert ' ID of Industrial depression and the great WM uave of social crime which have been .' fBt sweeping the conntry have also beets K m aeooinpnnled by nn Increase of what f H In couiiuonly culled commercial crlina, ,' U. D. Went, manaxer of the Inveitlei- ' JbH tlon unit prosecution departuinit vwM National AsoclatIn ot Credit Men, ! exposed some of the schemes devised !hH I ti dofrand errdlfer 'H "Wblla the uuiiiHrvii forma ot social : , crime ara well known to the public, the working of the vommerrlnt crtnilnali ar not familiar to moat person," aald Mr. Wt. lll The latter (Jim dual prlnoljmlly , ' with frandntent bankraptciea, th mnlctlnt ef oredl tors' and often, even, , , . the mining of honest merchant, iVfl well an the defeating ef the worklncs HLH or tho law. ' "The man who seeks to defraud th ' tlrnis with whleh be la dealing on l credit dees his work rarerully. Be ; )9H secures smiill leans, paying the bill I u mini ly In full, than gradually in : creases the ntnonnt of hi onltrn ' f ' :y&lHi - t MMm ' 'MaLVLft m'bH C. D. Went IH nntll the sum reaches a Mich jnnrk. Hl Then Is the antlclpatett time for tho j flH frntxlulejit bankruptcy or 'other j scheme. I J There sre a grent mnny wayi In j which these rrlmlnals operate. In Ifll bankruptcy frauds tbe most common; H methods of beating tbe law are tha H concealment of assets, transfer of , ftpj stock with the aid of n falxe burglary ' ll or fire nnd the dishonest clalmn of fll debts, contnicted and paid, usually IH to relutlves. tH Seek "Master Mind." ,H "Often It Is necessary to contend ( H with ii n organized gang, operating In B several cltlei throughunt the country 'iftl nnd controlling nrson und burglary ll gnng!, shippers, receivers, lawyers and ' B "It Is the 'man higher up', tho I H 'muster mind', that we are most cuii- ; H cerntHl In getting. Muny of their t workers ure merely duiiex. "While Investigating n en so la Bl Puter.son, N. J., not long ago I hecams 'BlJ Interested In tht disappearance ot n 'H derail sntcbels iimmI for transporting H nnlmnln ntiil I rioclilml tn truer them. 1 H I found that they had been shipped tn Phllndelphln and then to Chester, jH Penu. To Chester, I ucnt, to the lioiim of the man's fntber, whom I found 1 to be apparently Interested tn cats. I "But upon further t.earch I dl.- ilH covered the renHon. 'llie cuts were lll being trained to tlsht lamps and when IWB their training wns completed they fflU were held for $260 each. ffRSft "Thus lion u inun wanted a lira, liSffi in his store all that uns nccesinry, llfff wnj for him to purchase one of the.so JiSlft nnlmnls and leave It In his sjora ifisraT with a lighted lamp, then go horn frfa and go to bed, assured Unit while ho Irtf-lir slept the cat would knock over tho $!' light mid his shop woidd be de- wJtuJSi stroyed by tire. Bj Cltver Incendiary. WmX? "Sumo time ago I gecuml an Indict- JRfOcH meat of a man from the East Sldo WMtfMx of New York who hud one of tha mmm finest schemes for setting tires that t BPiLli lme eer enc-ountered. lWHSI "He would set u candle In the center SRuMI or an ordinary lard bucket, nncfe tha feNM: top of the cover around the ciinillo SflBySf With cotton, nnd then around tho' lu2Xw outer edge or the tup would pluco wEsSt little sticks, stringing twine or threud UateS uround these posts nnd nt regular alBSl Intervals would supeiid little sucks BBWa tllleil with giiBolhie on the string, lltfll "The cunille would hent the gas- SMB nllne mid cuue a strain, end then ' JIS when the cotton wus Ignited tho gns- rrH ollne would explode with such forco ) WMM that the pieces would be blown to B ull parts.ot the room nnd nQ.evldenco flM could "be" found." ' Iflryl |