Show p i POSTAL IN INSPECTORS INSPECTOR'S NET NT W MASHINGTON Jan Jail 22 of or fraudulent tt schemes nR who had liati obtained O from Itom tho the public pu were cr pu Put out of or business during dl the tho 3 car car ending end lug ing h Juno June SO ZO last t. according io to o the the an annual annual an- an nual n report of r. r Robert flobert S. S sharp Sharp chief chic Inspector of or the t pOstoffice department During tho the fl fiscal cal n year icar r J 9 IndIviduals IndIviduals' were er indicted In lct on the charge ch chur of t using the thc malls In lii Iii furtherance lc of pC s schemes t to defraud Of or this titia number t i c tried and lIH ii convicted The schemes investigated ln were of ot endless variety va- va 1 tying I nJ ns as ne Ine Lne report rt from front the simplest ll business transaction to a gi gigantic KI 1 gantic santie project involving tn the saW 1 of r worthless stock stolk In fake mining companies compan compan- ies Ic and imaginary and institutions Institutions existing only on piper paper In discussing aln the the multiplicity of oC the schemes to defraud crr lId the thc people Chief Inspector Sharp ays The determination to bring promoters into court and obtain prison prisons sentences s against them has proved ex exceedingly ex- ex 17 successful In no instance so 0 far ar as known to this office has hall ha a person pcr on convicted con d on ona a a. criminal charge cl of oC this at attempted attempted attempted at- at tempted to 10 reorganize reorganise reo his scheme ch mo under undera a new name as a was wa often case casO when hen I fraud Crand orders alone alono wore were resorted to ta The result of lor the years gears Rr work has developed d tho the fact that tha that these th fraud manipulators manipulators ma ma- I are ar II distinct dl class of Of criminals crimi crimi- nals naL naLom some om of thorn th moving mo in the hl high high- h- h e st lt t social and business t but all all all' having lia ln 11 more more or less t Affiliation with or are rc I do do rf of or f s or enter enter- prices prices' of pr illegitimate which thy th are e not n t known a. a ai ar prOmoters In Inlew view lew I w of or the heavy loss los to th the j postoffice post post- postoffice office department in prosecuting tie t lA cap caces al I Mr Sharp recommends that this work olk be b taken n nOc over over O c r for Inquiry by the th department d of Justice HC adds that the work of ot the th past year A ear lias tas uncovered ered erld a condition among amon the th th swindling |