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Show WANTED $10 FOR $1. A Youth at Knoxville, la., Heaps a Rich Harvest Through an Advertisement. Postoffice Inspector Stuart received a letter the other day from Inspector Christian, Chris-tian, one of the inspectors of the Chicago di?trict, giving an account of the arrest of a youthful genius who has been operating oper-ating a swindle at Knoxville, la. J. F. Bay, 20 years old, rented a lock box at Knoxville in May last and advertised adver-tised in various weekly publications that he would send to the readers of The Ladies' Home Magazine an elegant $10 china tea set on payment of $1. He secured se-cured hundreds of answers to the advertisement, adver-tisement, and in return sent a toy tea set of six pieces, such as are sold in the State street stores for 3 cents. Inspector Christian examined the records rec-ords of the Knoxville postoffice and found that the boy had received 215 registered reg-istered letters, 70 money orders and 230 letters containing nostal mfa geth.-r he had received over $1,000. He did not honor with his 3 cent tea sets all who sent him money, so it is said, for he had used only 100 sets. The boy was taken before a United States commissioner commis-sioner and held to the federal grand jury of Iowa under $2,000 bonds, in default of which he went to jail. Chicago Record. |