OCR Text |
Show SWINDLERS DEVISE NEW SUCKER SCHEME WASHINGTON. June I A new gel-rich-quick echeme, which rivals sorts of tha swindles of recent years for Its Ingenuity. In-genuity. Is being successfully operated In the Partflc eta tcs. Ita trail Is said to reach east as far aa New Torn. Secret service men are working on It. Prospective vtetlma are told that the Untied Statee government la short of monev and that, to avert a panic, the treasury Is quietly floating an Immense laeue of national bank nolee. It la represented rep-resented that a coterie of New York Ananrlero have undertaken to underwrite the laaue. which la offered to vlrtima on the baale of 60 per cent. Secret service men eay the awindlers ususlly sxhlblt s genuine 16 national bank note aa a sample sam-ple of the laaue. Several rltlaens of Seattle are reported ta have paid In eume ranglnft from 8604 to 11000. with the expectation of receiving receiv-ing double that eum In genuine national bank notea before next winter. Secret eervtre men have found gathering gather-ing of evidence difficult, ae the victim la flrat Initiated Into a supposed sacra t order and ewora to oocrecy |