| Show HE BITE A Provo ite Approach eil confidentially on how to make money A prominent citizen of provo received a confidential communication the other day from an individual in new jersey who does not sign his name to the letter but encloses it with his address on a small slip paper the writer proposes to sell paper money printed from U S treasury plates of different denominations at about per cent discount of course it is the work of shar pers wha resort to these dishonest means to extract money from innocent people but withal there is more in the scheme than a person is apt to think looking at the writer says in his letter that under no consideration will he sell the money until he sees the intending purchasers and that the necessary journey entail much expense ho will make a liberal allowance in the goods to cover all expenses he closes by saying in gods name do not betray me or mention to a living soul what passes i between ua as I 1 have never done you any harm and never shall but will prove a true and lasting friend to you make up your mind to come here and in my next letter I 1 will name a hotel for you to stop at how you will know me and full instructions now some might think this a game of extortion but recent developments in the premises proved an entirely different affair abou three months ago a prominent merchant of denver col received a letter from a man in new york city offered to sell him money printed from treasury plates that could not be told from the genuine the merchant by the barest accident happened to be an honest man at heart and although the temptation offered to him was a great one one that not one man in a hundred could refuse decided not to accept the proposal but to inform united states marshal perry whose headquarters are at denver the letter was shown to marshal perry and ho answered it under the merchants name who had received it marshal perry wrote to the counterfeiters counterfeit ers in new york that he did not care to invest heavily at first uncil he saw what the goods were and asked could he buy worth to start on the reply came back to forward on the money by express to a name and number that was given the officer sent thirty ten dollar bills and in return received iu tens and fives the money was apparently genuine and so the banks pronounced it in denver A week after he received the money he wrote again to new york saying that he thought of investing on a large scale and asked if he could make arrangements to meet tho maker of alie bills in new york city at the grand international hotel at a certain time A favorable answer came dulig to hand and the detective started for new york city when perry arrived at the hotel in question he was called upon by an old man who brought with him a valise which he opened in the room displaying packages of money amounting to the detective examined the money carefully said it would suit him and put his hand in his pocket as if to bring out the money to pay for it but in the place of money lie drew a pistol and placing it at the counterfeiters counterfeit ers bead made him a prisoner aad toik the contents of the bag into his possession |
