Show Pions Pierce And still they come The representative repre-sentative of an eastern wholesale house numbered among the scores of dealers and private citizens who were bilked by Parson Pierce writes to a friend in this city explaining how it all came about The letter is rich and racy as may be gathered gath-ered from the following extracts It will also be seen that the reverend gentleman may yet get into trouble over his peculiar imministerial work of obtaining credit The eastern drummer writes That fellow Pierce must be an infernal in-fernal scoundrel I suppose you consider con-sider quite fortunate that he was not a customer of theirs at the time he went up a The way he caught me was this He had been buying for some two years from from a man by the name of hs left the company and started in business for himself and in consideration of our baying some goods from him has agreed to sell only to jobber Among the very desirable customers that he turned over to us was G M Pierce Pierce was the only party I called upon or my losses might have been much heavier If I had the time I would have the fellow jugged for obtaining goods under false pretenses He represented to me that he was doing a splendid business and owing 1 little or nothing and got out his book showing figures to prove it This is the first loss we have ever had in Salt Lake |