Show solicited to invest in the purchase of the spurious article 11 yesterday morning a gent gentleman lema who doea does not wish bis his name made public walked into THE STANDARD editorial rooms and asked for a fe few w private convers conversation a tion with a reporter the interview waa was cheerfully ranted granted and the gent gentleman lema a handed hands the reporter er a le letter t ter and re quested that he read d it the letter was typewritten type written and bore the new york pst postmark mark it lt solicited 0 the party to whom it was addressed d to purchase an article 11 which with careful handling would ina in a short time make him independently spend rich the epistle went on to state the that puberty produces and offers the easy means to avoid bach such no mention is made of the kind of article hot but states that will purchase will purchase will purchase and will purchase the writer goes on to state that they are perfect imitations and cannot be detected by the shrewdest accompanying pa nying the letter is a clipping from some new now york paper which gives a detailed account of the arrest and subsequent trial and acquittal of a noted counterfeiter this counterfeiter is purported to bo be the party who manufactures the article offered f for or sale A similar slip bearing a number and a pass pus word also accompanied the letter the words on the slip are to be telegraphed the party in new york 1 in a came he wishes to purchase and Is signed wilson new york under no circumstances Is a letter to be written as it will receive no answer other r innumerable cautions are given and altogether it is a well planned scheme cho m e after af ter reading the lett letter erthe the reporter ter asked when the Eal missive saive bad had been received revved and ii if it bad had been answered aved the 6 gentleman tieman replied that the letter bad had teen been received on the 7 jtb th of the present month but bad had not been answered either by mall mail or telegraph what puzzled the gentleman was why way he ho a should on id have been been selected as a purchaser of this article it is very probable that if I 1 bad sent for any of this so called moneymaking money making article aran 1 said he be an and d forwarded my money as the letter requests I 1 would never receive any answer or cretu returns rn a there thee is a certain amount of mystery about this business which I 1 intend to clear up 11 said the man as he bade bado the reporter good day |