Show Ir BEAUTIFUL CERTIFICATES All THEY GOT FOR THEIR LAVISH INVESTMENT Ohio Women Put Up 20 for Smooth Talker and Made lade Glittering Promises for a Gold Mine TOLEDO 0 O. D Dec c. c 26 Many Many lan women of ot this city lt who had m managed miln to put puta r a ava away wa a n. thousand few dollars to provide against the future are now sorrowing because lh they y made mad the acquaintance or of ofa ora a man man who called himself Dr D. D Sickles Thc They MI pay Y he left leH the thO cit city suddenly with something like of ot cold cold cash In his satchel All that his victims haW to show for their Investments In are a n few bt beautifully en engraved engraved en- en graved which entitle them to a 3 certain number of shares of or stock In a co company n an which th they declare has no existence r drifted Into Tol Toledo do two or 01 I three weeks weel s a ago o and stopped slopped ot at a first first- lass class house boarding on Madison Madron on street street- He Ic said that he had a great deal o of cor- cor and the thc noise noisa and clatter tatter about a hotel disturbed him He managed man man- aged ared l to b be Introduced to several women who had bank bant roIl rolls Mining Gold-Mining Syndicate He called his J-is company the Great Western Irrigating Irrig and Gol Gold Goki Mining syndicate syndIcat of or Cripple Creek Cob Colo A quiet Investigation has been en made by hy es' es and antI friends of at some soma of ot the women women and the they say sar they ha have hac c learned that no one In Cripple Creek ever eer heart heard of ot th the concern matter has been reported at police police police po po- po- po lice headquarters but the police refuse letl to I c out the names of or the alleged victims saying thc they are arc pledged ed to e e- e captured The crecy until Brownloe Is h poll police say that one one maiden lady about 40 ye years eare r. r old oM who ho was left a for fortune unc b byan by byan an aunt was induced to Invest Inest 22 f 0 and would have Invested another 1000 1 slightly sus- sus or FO 10 o had she not grown rown s that the d dividends would no not come come In ln soon coon enough An Another h r et elderly ell widow the thc police sa say was for tor P upon n the positive guarantee that the tIle investment would cent Many never pay le less s than 20 per others were tAken In 1st for sums varying from 25 5 to each Plenty oC or Funds Dr wn ce told the ladles ladies that he le had every even assurance from rom the thc manager manager man man- a prominent ager of ot the company compan D Denver n er bank pre president c nt that this y years year's profits of at the syndicate would fun run 40 percent per cent and probably 50 O e appeared to have hn plenty plent of ot funds funds' while here but never neer had anything anything any any- thing to do with an any of or the banks and so EO fart as known did not malt mall an any let letters let let- although gh he pretended tl to write man manyIn manin In hI his room H He paid his hh board and usually wore a garb of at clerical cut He Ic was scrupulously neat and neve appeared at a loss to reply to an any queries put to him re regarding the company he purported to represent |