| Show A counterfeit MONEY SWINDLER A correspondent at leeds utah forwards a communication commit Qi catlon received by him purporting to emanate from a person in new york city who claims to have in his possession a quantity of original government greenback plates platea llen glen from the treasury department ailt it washington and to be able to furnish bills printed there in denominations of from one to twenty dollars it pretends to be a confidential letter and is an imitation of typewritten type written manuscript but a person accustomed to handling hant ling the latter can detect the imposture at a glance and perceive that it is a printed circular it opens with an appeal to the recipient which is ostensibly designed to arouse his cupidity and smother his conscience but the real purpose of which isto hoodwink dimand convince him that he has actu actually aliv received vei a proposition from a counterfeiter who is able to furnish the goods described in the communication these are represented as being absolutely ind from genuine notes and are offered at a small percentage of their face value not less lees than 80 worth of goods will be sold at a time Follo following is the closing portion of the letter first dont as long as you live ever write a letter to me until I 1 rive give you yon permission if you do it will be refused see I 1 mean exactly what I 1 say any and furthermore all business relations ious between us gift will end second if you wish to come on here and see me send the following telegram remember telegram ONLY will be received oel ce ived ved and simaly simply say SEND instructions t then en sign your name as an per pass pan word and you third on receipt of your telegram I 1 will send you full instructions how to meet we and where to sto stop then no mistakes will be made in 1 finding ding one another I 1 ink conclusion I 1 wish to say if you cann cahnt come on here or have not to invert inver it and you think favorably of my business send the following telegram what is market pricell price sf I 1 will then make you another proposition now kindly allow me to caution you again not to write letters be patient and tta 11 guided by my advice if you do you will be sure of success no such thing an a fail act square squared be true trite and honorable do me no harm and you will never regret it as long as you live you can make money faster and easier by dealing in my goods than you ever dreamed of before in your life wont you try it itt CAUTION no oth other person iu authorized zed by me to borres correspond n on this subject imitations act do not be deceived by shoddy imitations I 1 am the sole owner an and proprietor of this enterprise communications from others offering similar goods for sale are absolutely unreliable and positively worthless pay no attention to them auf oed ced 11 yours very sincerely sin sincerely cerel you yon L KNOW ow 21 enclosed with the communication ls is what purports to be a clipping from some newspaper name and date omit ted to be given in which an alleged account is narrated of a boston merchant who received a proposition from a counter counterfeiter felter known as charles wilson who offered in counterfeit bills for the inference is that wilson to is one of the persons interested in the present scheme the merchant communicated with a government erdmen t detective and the latter using the merchants name dame remitted the SM I 1 in n good money and re ce in bogus notes which however were pronounced good by boston banks the detective made an appointment to meet the counterfeiter which the latter kept and ws wa arrested having at the time a satchel which contained in counterfeit notes expecting to sell them to the detective the counterfeiter was acquitted on the ground that his bis bills were printed from genuine plates as testified to by government ex experts pertal this clipping to is manufactured for the purpose for which it is used and aad never appeared in a newspaper at all though it looks as though it had been clipped from one with a pair of scissors its object is costill to still further hoodwink the recipient and strengthen his bis conviction that a counterfeiter who has first class goods has really written to him the statement that wilson was acquitted on the ground that his goods were printed from government plates is made trusting to the ignorance of the prospective dupe regarding criminal law accompanying the proposal is also the following which appears on a separate slip keep this for future reference send all telegrams no letters to robert lester 87 desbrosses street new york your password pass word and number instead of your name la Is napkin 1 do not sign any thing else elbe CAUTION be sure you have the numbers plainly written on all telegrams after you sign the he word ord IN napkin kin ee otherwise irato yer your giorg telegrams ms will I 1 I 1 tel v y receive no attention t wita whatever the alg ifie L ures are very important all answers from me will be sent to the same name and address as aa written on the present envelope velor unless otherwise instructed by you this gives an air of profound secrecy to the correspondence which mak maecs the coming coaling dupe feel still more confident that he is dealing with an expert but friendly scoundrel if the recipient of the above trash pays enough attention to it to reply by telegraph as directed he will likely be communicated with in a still more confidential vein and probably will at length be informed that it is not ab sol nwe ceary haary in his case owing to the long journey etc that business should be done by a personal 1 interview but that if he will remit in good money he will in counterfeit if he be sends he may possibly receive in return a small package of sawdust but most likely he will get nothing at all not even a farewell message from the swindler who has taken him in persons who need to be warned against such transparent trickery promising gains by such dishonest means do not deserve to be it may not be inappropriate to remark remar however that persons who have in their possession posse salon or who have the means of manufacturing good counterfeit money do nut not send out circulars circular by the and offering it for sale at ten per vent of its face value no doubt some dishonest gudgeon now and then receives the above described literature and is led by it to remit to robert Les leater terP but such are not legitimate objects of sympathy on account of the money they thus thua lose |
