Show A NEW WEW METHOD METUD OF SWINDLING I Largest Business Organizations s Fall Victims i t BY COLLECTION AGENCIES AOI T Prom lerom Ad a Ire 11 u Asked lor r New York May Iny 19 Facts maya haves been ce laid Atty Jerome con a new method of ot swindling which ll Is said to have been bee successful In III Its Ita operation and to which the larg largest est eat business bu in the city have fallen tallen victims It Jl Is 18 declared that there have been betl formed In this city two collection agen agencies a agencies en cies clea which are arc believed to be operated by the tire same Individual Their plan Is 15 I simple An All agent of at one of ut them visits a business man mall or the general office of ofa t f ta fa a corporation haying having first firs learned of oC sonic gome outstanding Indebtedness due du to the Individual or company visited This indebtedness stands against some firm or person lerlOn who has baa failed In business or who sho tot for somo reason had haa ha avoided pay payment payment ment mont The Th statement Is made that his hia agency hUB has come comae Into nto secret knowledge ot of the fact tact that the judgment debtor had come conic Into possession pos of ot curtain property Then th proposal al Is made that for tor a n reasonable commission the tha delit will be collected with Interest and cOsts co ts A tee fee Is collected In advance the tho amount being governed by the Iho apparent willingness of tho the creditor to have havo tile the coll collection of ot the debt attended to In some sienna cases a II large sum hag h hU S been paid pall to lo have the tire judgment In itt court and ind to have the claim placed In shape shalle for tor or collecting The Th payment of the tee fee fees Is s the th last lost heard beard of ot the case cacti by liy the tho creditor until a request Is III made for tor a aIll report port Ill when tine the invariable reply Is favorable progress Is la being made Not fewer than titan of ot these rases Casel have havo reported to the tine New Nell York Credit liens Mens Men association and complaints havo have lain been e n received from merchants mer hant In Dos Bos Boson Doston ton on Chicago St Louis Kansas City Baltimore St SU StPaul Paul laul aul and Cincinnati |