Ogden Daily Standard | 1891-12-20 | Page 9 | The Sale of Gold Bricks Section

the sale of f gold the gold brick swindle is still making its mery merry rounds throughout the country much to the advantage of 0 the swindlers lers a and to the sorrow of those who invest la in what they consider a good thing the recent arrest of bunko carter bri bricki nka to light the fact act that six months a ago go he got of a it vermont farmers money by means ot of thia this same gold brick dodge the aged victim Is I 1 named odonald and ho lie liven lives near hampton curler carter is young prepossessing and glibow gill ol 01 tongue he lle first ingratiated himself into Oll onalda bonfi dence by pretending to be looking for or an uncle of the bume same name then he told a fairy story about an indian who had discovered fyerud a cold mine out west and had bad tample ample bricks worth apiece to sell the indian and his bricks were found in the woods and then the united stated assayer ll 11 who pronounced them pure kold gold WH on hand at the village inn odonald w woe so much chagrined at aa being swindled that t t ho bo kept the matter secret tor for months ile b wort it