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Show Loving Couple Pay Liberally in Counterfeit Counter-feit Money Chicago. Sept. 25. A dozen preachers preach-ers are condoling with each other over tho loss of good money of which they ,were defrauded by a counterfeiter and a woman accomplice, who ropeatcdly presented themselves for marriage and also presented false $20 bills In payment of a $10 fee. The clergyman who told of the fraud refused tho names of the pi'eachers Involved as secrecy had been agreed on ntv. a denominational meeting at which the victims condoled condol-ed with oach other. Under the names of Gustavo Foster and Amanda Thomas, Thom-as, an elderly but apparently loving pair, at various times presented themselves them-selves at tho parsonages of tho several sev-eral preachers and desired to be married'. mar-ried'. - Aftor the coremony had been performed, per-formed, tho man said: "I wish, sir, that I could roward you with $20 for this kind act of yours, which makes a happy ending to a courtship lasting many years, but my purse is somewhat slim, and I can afford but $10." f So saying he tondored a $20 bill, and the clergyman, well plo'ased to have porforraed this noblo office, as well as to have a windfall of $10, gave him back $10 in real money. "I tried to buy a book of sermons with my $20 bill," said the preacher who told tho story, "and wns repulsed re-pulsed by an angry salesman who threatened to have me arrested." |