Show J A Swindle NEW Yomr April 5An evening paper prints the following What bids fair to develop de-velop into a big gold brick swindle has como to light at the United States assay office On Wednesday a wellknown and wealthy gentleman of this city deposited four large bars supposed to be gold with an assayer to be refined and made into standard gold bars The gentleman said the bars were from California and were estimated esti-mated to be worth about 10000 each or 40000 for the four and that the assay which he had made before showed the bars to be about 72 fine Tho bars were received and receipted for in the usual form and the gentleman departed in full confidence that He had 40000 in gold in the hands of Uncle Sam The suspicions of Graham the receiver re-ceiver of deposits were exoited by the lightweight light-weight of the bars their specific gravity being only about 89 whereas the specific gravity of gold is 193 Samples were taken from the four bars and assayed when it was found the bars were of copper with a I thin wash of gold on tho outside In short the four bars turned out t be worth about four dollars instead of 40000 Up to noon yesterday the gentleman had not called te ascertain the result of the assay I is evident evi-dent a fraud has heen perpetrated on him and that he is numbered among the victims of the gold brick trick w |