| Show N OF kin kix SWINDLES AMONG the swindles fes which have deceived and robbed many honest but credulous persons in this country is the next of kin humbug by which large sums of money are pock pocketed eted in london by pretended law firms which prey on expectant heirs an illustration of this swindle is furnished by the so called carpenter estate of eng I 1 only url uri ITI private vate individuals but large associations ot of people by the name oi of carpenter have squandered no end of money in teeing unscrupulous english lawyers for hunting tip up a supposed great fortune left by one win wm carpenter in the year 1700 itis it is alleged that this person died at the age of 97 leaving to hi his s american descendants and that several claims have been made by american car carpenters enters for the money which were disallowed disallowed because proof of was not established others have been encouraged by these failures to pay money to trace up their genealogy and enter claims for the property among these are the members of the carpenter fund association they organized and sent dele delegates ates to england englana to try and recover ee the property latterly one of these associations employed james usher oi of new york who went to england and in a thorough and exhaustive hau hsu ha stive investigation established conclusively clu ciu the utter fallacy of the whole thing there is it appears no such carpenter estate in existence the particulars tic ulars of the search with the genealogy alo aio of many american members of the carpenter ar penter family samily are a r published published in a work issued by y mr U usher es er and the wild goose chase into which marl mall many reputable people have been deluded ly is plainly shown up the deceptions of the so called claim lawyers and next of kin humbugs humburgs are laid bare and we refer to this case and the work ot of mr usher as a warning to those who may be tempted to spend money on pretended estates waiting walting ng for claimants but which are only 0 baits set by unscrupulous scoundrels to catch the unwary and squeeze them financially dry mr usher has haa done a woric in exposing the tha carpenter delusion ge lusion elusion |
