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Show WOMAN HELD IN BUTTE HAD DAZZLING SCHEME j BUTTE. Mont., Sept. 18. Offers ol LaaaH 3U0 per cent profit in ton days on an H Investment of $100, made by Mrs H .Mary B. I'hllllps of Fort Worth, Texas, resulted In her detention today by Butte police, according to announce- sl ment of Police Chief j Murphy. .Mrs. Phillips admitted, the officer said, that she had told a Melstone. Mont., woman that she was a member of a prominent detective agency seek-Ing seek-Ing counterfeiters. She said, accord-Ing accord-Ing to Chief Murphy? that she was selling valuable oil royalties to locate LH tho counterfeiters The Melstone wo-man wo-man came to Butte today to assist her In the work. She failed to locate LH Mrs. Phillips and reported tho offers H to the police whoso subsequent hives-ligation hives-ligation resulted in Mrs. Phillips ar- "She makes Ponzl. the Boston flnan-cler. flnan-cler. look like a 'piker'" Chief Mur- H phy said 'Pons! only offered fifty BH per com profit in ninety days." |