Show SMOOTH advertising FAKIRS two smooth advertising fakiri fakirs have bare been playing to big business in this and adjoining cities within the last lait month thy are men who know their business and play their cards well in fact that several of suit lakes most moat brainy and capable business men nave have been duped by them the first record of their appearance in this city la is furnished by the abe cullen hotel register on the pages of which they inscribed their autographs oct 23 1896 J M smith of boston and M well of kansas city are the parties herein referred to and they have been operating here am authorized representatives of the united states commercial register company of philadelphia the latter to is an ad ver vortie lag firm with which most moat of our prominent business houses have been dealing smith and well deserve the die tion of being called smart in every sense of the term they ply their nefarious vocation vacation so go smoothly that they have drawn the most shrewd and careful business men man into their net of the pair makes a call on a house that has been doing business with the commercial Comme roial register company of philadelphia he introduces himself as a representative ot of the company and produces cards to hat bat effect then he asks aska the abe manager of the firm for a renewal of his lulad ad which for two years the length of time tor for which each contract to in made costs 1260 1150 the manager in most cases says bays that he desires to discontinue the ad 10 whereupon the be wily follow fellow pio produces duces a book containing discontinued slips one of which he be fills out anti and then gets the manager oi of the company to append his bis signature the abe reading of the slip Is ie to the effect that a certain firm desires t discontinue its ad costing 1250 theo then the alleged representative leaves anu all I 1 la apparently settled in a lew few days afterwards another representative ot the commercial register He gister appears on the scene he comes in the capacity of collector fr the company the local business house hoube as he says is in ID debt to his hie company in toe me sum of 1260 1250 which sum aum he be desires to collect the mer on a nt d doubts on his very m much uch bei benoir n V ip ar rears lor for his ad but all doubt is dispelled when the collector presents a flight eight draft bearing the signature of the companas comp anys manager ann ana dated a year bacs the local man recognizes his signature and ana as he gene generally raby likes to sand good tot for all paper signed by him be readily puts up the cash in liquidation of the claim maie ma ie upon him alter which the representative leaves the manner to in which the scheme is worked to is this the discontinued slip to is erran arranged geu so 0 o that alter after toe the of the company has signed it the representative P cuts out a portion ot of It which leaves the slip blip as aa a sight eight brait bearing the ina maagero maa feager gerd ld signature this the swindler gives to the man who does the collecting ao act and the he goo forward in a day or two afterward and gets the cash among their victims in this city are the goube drug company compan v and the cooperative co operative wagon and Ma machine chiLle company the former by mr brice we the latter by george T kjell manager buth both of those these gentlemen are recognized as clear level thorough bus business ineis men but notwithstanding this these two barks got the better of them mr odell odeli swore to a complaint in the police court today in which he charges that lost M well did knowingly and designedly sign edly by false pretenses pre rod and with intent to cheat obtain 12 60 from the operative wagon waked and machine company by then and there representing that he desired to have an advertisement ti in the united states commercial nier cial register discontinued whereas he wilfully so folded arranged and clanged a pretended discontinuance cards that it amounted to an bruer or night flight draft drad to pay 1260 1250 rod and this his said M well then and anere well knew said baid machine company parted and was induced to part with said money by relying upon we the said fraudulent rep ot of de 29 2 9 the men operated in ogden but came to grief there as they they are now being hold held awaiting a hearing bearing in the district court on charge of obtaining money under false pretenses and forgery f hey were quickly nipped in too the junction city aoa ana had dad a hearing bearing before a magistrate who hold held them to a higher tram tribunal nal waon we the ends of justice have been satisfied in weber county then the men will be taken in hand band to answer tor for their exploits in salt lake sam barn ewing the proprietor of the cullen to is also aleo out anu ana injured the smooth customers paid their bills at the hotel by mean of a bank check I 1 which when presented for payment was refused and aad stamped as a forgery mr brice of the Golbe Pitts drug company has written the commercial register company of philadelphia asking them it if such men as aa those claiming to be their authorized agents are in their employ he expects an answer in a day or two |