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' --k.c "--vCtf d - -" f 74 v - ' ' . -- "6" -" '"Bv,vsr? ..VI if L V -K How Swindlers Dodge the Law Scfcoaes of Fleecing the Public Have Evolved from the use to Gigantic Frauds, Wearing the Cloak of Legitimate Business Enterprises. :.".. By EDWIN Uuutt4 State Dkl-to af EDWIN W. SIMS. t For many years Chicago has been the headquarters for the swindlers and confidence men of the country Chicago being the great railroad and distributing center of the west, strangers are drawn here in great numbers and for many years they have supported a large class of men who live by their wits. Because of the ease with which money is obtain ed by various kinds of swindles the swindler has flourished in Chicago despite the utmost vigilance and activ ity of the officers of the law both state and federal. In devising schemes, swindlers always have in view two objects: First, obtaining money for nothing; second, evading the law. The ingenuity displayed by these men is often remarkable. As the attorney for one of them remark ed after his client had been convicted: "Jf that man had used the same in genuity and persistence in legitimate business that he has in inventing swindles, he would now be a million aire." The evolution of the swindling game during the last 25 years is very interesting. Twenty-five years ago the swindler eked out a precarious existence. His operations were con lined to the shell-game, short-change, fake-bet, green goods, gold brick and other similar schemes. Usually these schemes were worked upon country people and only smalt sums could be obtained. They also lacked another important feature of the modern swindle in that there was no provision for a defense in court Swindlers who worked these schemes depended anon avoiding detection, but they could make no defense to the scheme Itself. This was a dangerous and cumber some method of procedure and during the last decade has been superceded by the confidence game or scheme to defraud in its modern form. In the '90s these schemes began to exhibit some of the elements of their modern perfection. The method adopted was to conduct the swindle by an elaborate imitation of business methods. An example will show the great advance that was made over the old method. The man would open an office and Insert advertisements in the papers stating that a business firm with a large capital wished men to represent it in various states at substantial salaries. This would at tract scores of men who would come to the office. Bach victim would be told that he had all the qualifications necessary to conduct the business and would be offered a salarj; of two or three thousand dollars a year and commissions, and would have some state assigned to him. He would then be told it was necessary for him to make a deposit of two, three or five hundred dollars, as the case might be,' and a contract, shrewdly drawn, would be presented to him to sign. He would pay his way to Cleveland or Milwaukee as Ohio and Wisconsin were the states they usually gave where his employer would pay no more attention to him. When he j would return and demand bis deposit he would be shown the contract-vari ous provisions of which he had not kept &nd the money would not be returned to him. Another scheme was to advertise for sale a partnership in an old and established business. A set of fake books, showing profits, would be pro duced for the inspection of the vie tir: &d be would pay $500 or $1,000 for a new partnership. Some pre tense to conduct the business would be made, but soon the business would fail and the victim would be out of his money. Schemes of this kind were conducted in great numbers in Chi cago during the latter '90s and up into the first few years of the present century, and millions of dollars thus obtained from the credulous. There was a weak point however, in schemes of this nature. When the swindler was haled into court he could show no effort to conduct a real 'business. The defense was always that .this was -not a crime but only a failure to carry out a contract; but the courts held that a contract other wise legal, if used in connection with a scheme to defraud, could not avail as a defense. . . Then the next step in the evolution of modern swindling was taken to meet this difficulty. The swindler j would actually make a pretense of carrying on a real business, and then simply wear out his victim by various conditions and annoyances. The scheme in its present form is a clever advance over all those previously used. A swindler to-day is connected in some way with a corporation of some kind, and, whatever part he may take, his profits are derived ultimately from people who purchase the securi ties of these corporations. In order to avoid danger, the corporation will have something. If it is a mining corporation, it will actually have some place that it calls a mine and it will W. SIMS, the De be making some show of operating It; if it is an oil company or any other kind of a fake corporation, there will be some show of activity. Under this scheme, the victim has his share of stock, and the mine, or the oil well, or the plantation, or whatever it Is, is there; and, according to the swind ler, all the stockholder has to do is to wait until the property is "devel oped. This tends to keep the victim from prosecuting, for. of course, a prosecution would destroy the value of the business, and it affords a de fense in court. Another scheme allied to this was one in which a number of clever swindlers cleaned up a large amount of money. A man would advertise that he had ample capital to invest in the securities of corporations pro vided a competent examiner, after thorough investigation, makes a fav orable report upon the proposition. The victim is led to choose as the ex aminer a confederate of theman with capital. The examiner will receive $500 to $2,500 for making the exam ination, according to the size of the business whose securities are to be marketed; then, after getting the money, he will make the examination and return an unfavorable re port, which releases the first swind ler of his obligation to take the bonds under the contract Then, of course, the two divide the fee for. the exam ination between them. This scheme and one or two others very closely al lied in principle were flourishing until they fell into the hands of the federal authorities here in Chicago. This latter scheme, it will be ob served, is more dangerous than the selling of worthless stocks and bonds to the public, for the reason that it can be proved that the swindler was not in the position to purchase these bonds even if a favorable report had been made. In the case of these cor porations which exist in large num bers and who are robbing the people of the country of millions every year, it is very difficult to secure conviction of their promoters in a majority of cases. When they are arrested and brought into court, they are ready to show that they were really carrying on some kind of a business, and that they have been simply unfortunate, that expectations had not been realiz ed, and that a business failure is not a crime. The great difficulty is to prove criminal intent In the past both our state and fed eral courts have so interpreted the law against schemes to defraud that they have been, able to suppress or curb these .schemes, whatever form they took. Just ''what is to be the at titude of the courts towards the swindler who poses as a promoter, and whether they are to so interpret the law that it can deal adequately with this form of fraud, is at the present time uncertain, as the courts differ widely upon the subject. Some of our courts arc now holding that even if a promoter does issue a false prospectus, and thereby induces peo ple to invest in the securities of a corporation, that this does not consti tute a scheme to defraud, and that it must appear beyond all reasonable doubt that the defendant intended to put the money thus obtained into his pocket, and not into the business. The difficulty of making this proof has already been indicated. In Eng land, this difficulty was met by a stat ute (24th and 25th Vict, c 96, s. 94). which is as follows: "Whoever, being a director, man ager, or public officer of any body corporate or public company, shall make, circulate or publish, or concur in making, circulating, or publishing any written statement or account which he shall know to be false in any material particular, with intent to deceive or defraud any member, shareholder or creditor of such body corporate or public company, or with intent to induce any person to become a shareholder or partner therein, or to entrust or advance any property to such body coriiorate or nublic com pany. or to enter into any security for the benefit thereof, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and being con victed thereof, shall be liable at the discretion of the court to any of the punishments which the court may award, as hereinbefore last men tioned." Under this statute, the difficulty Is met by making it a crime to issue a false prospectus. Some of our courts have held that the issuing of a false prospectus is a scheme to defraud within section 54S0 of the United States revised statutes. Other court3 however, hold to the contrary; but. whether by judicial interpretation or by legislation, it is absolutely essen tial that the issuing of a false pros pectus be made a crime before it is possible to deal effectively with the largest class of swindlers that now prey upon the public. While the United States govern ment cannot directly prosecute schemes to defraud; yet. If the mails are used in the furtherance of the scheme, the government can act As most of these schemes contemplate the use of mails, it is possible for the government to proceed against them under sections 5480 and 5440 of the United States revised statutes. Sec tion 54S0 provides that whoever de vises a scheme to defraud and pro motes it by opening correspondence through the mails, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor: section 5440 provides that if two or more conspire to com mit the offense denounced in section 5480. they shall receive a still great er punishment Acting under the authority given by these two sections, the post office de partment and the United States dis tant attorney's office for the northern district of Illinois have for rears waged a vigorous and relentless war against all swindlers who make us cf the mail service. The task present- ed the authorities Is dlflcult one. i In the first place, where the Basils have been used,, the victim are wide ly scattered, and it is dhncult to know who has been swindled, nd the gov ernment must choose its witnesses from those who happen to make cost plaint These witnesses are scattered from Maine to California. It is neces sary to bring them here for the pre liminary hearing, then for the grand jury session and once store for the trial of the case. Much labor and ex pense are necessary. Then, too, it is necessary far the attorney who draws the, indictment to go through correspondence and the various conversations with the great est care in order that he stay analyse the scheme and determine exactly in what the fraud consists, so that the indictment may tie accurately drawn. Then at the trial of the ease, the gov ernment is, perhaps, confronted with the fact that the scheme has been so cleverly devised that direct intent to defraud is impossible of proof, and re sort must be had to circumstantial evidence. The records show, however, that the government has very seldom lost a case of this kind, and that swindlers and confidence men stand in the greatest fear of the federal authorities because of the vigor of. prosecution in the past If the law could he amend ed as above suggested, undoubtedly the government woald be able to. reach and suppress a large majority of the schemes to defraud that are now operated from, this city. ' , One of the surprising things. in connection with this subject, is the credulity of the average person who has saved a little money, and hopes for large and immediate returns from it It seems that there is nothing so extravagant, so improbable, that the people will not believe it If the stock of any company had -any chance of earning the dividends which these promoters represent that it will, of course it would be subscribed and over-subscribed for at ence by the big moneyed men, and would not have to be peddled around at absurd prices often as low as ten cents a share. When this is suggested to the promo ter, he always, states that the big moneyed men karc trying to get hold of the stock, but that it is not desired that they should have ft, because they ' would then come into control or the property; and the victim swallows the explanation. The swindler usually has a confed erate to whom he refers the victim who wishes to learn about his stand ing and integrity; and it seems the victim rushes right to this confeder ate instead of going to banks or busi ness men and making inquiries from people upon whom he could rely. Every prospective purchaser should stop and ask himself the question: "Why is this stock being peddled around in this manner? Is it possible that a good safe investment would be so handled when so much money is lying idle. ready for good investments in the hands of men who are compe tent to pass upon the safety of an investment? Who are the men back of this scheme and what are their an tecedents? At what banks, or at what established business houses are they known as honest, conservative men of business?" Of course, the swindler has his plausible answer to all these ques tions, and the victim takes his explan ation without making a thorough ad- ditJonal investigation. (Copyright by Joseph B. Bowles.) Only One. "At the unveiling of Rodin's bust of Henley in Westminster abbey," said a New York editor, "a number of good stories were told about the great poet "H. G. Wells praised Henley's con duct of the New Review. Of course, this periodical failed, yet it was un doubtedly the best edited magazine of the. last century- In it Henley intro duced to the world new writers of such distinction as Joseph Conrad, Kenneth Grahame, W..B. Yeats, Mr. Wells himself, and so on. "One day as Mr. Wells and Henley stood in the office of the magazine, discussing rather sadly its gloomy prospects, a funeral went by with slow pace. , "Henley leaned out of the window and looked at the funeral anxiously. Then he turned to bis companion and said, with" a worried frown: " 'Can that be our subscriber?' " Sunflower Seeds as Food. The sunflower, which has been a feature of cottage gardens for the last few weeks, is an instance of the poverty of our language, for while in "tourneysol" and "gyrasole" the French and Italians sum up the flower in a single v.ord we have no name to de scribe its well known characteristic. We have, however borrowed the lat ter word, and converted it into "Jeru salem." to distingulsb-from its more succulent rival the tuberous arti choke the only helianthus which was used for food. But in the Russian Caucasus, as you remember from Tol stoy's Caucasian stories, the eating of the sunflower seed is a common habit among the peasants. It provides such gentle occupation as smoking, an aid to contemplation, for some automatic skill is needed to get the seeds and reject the husk. Rare Coin to Be Sold. The sale of the rare "Miners' bank" ten-dollar gold piece, struck in Cal ifornia in 1S50. the feature of the auc tion of old coins at Elder's, says the Xew York Times. Collectors com peted for this souvenir of the gofd money of the pioneers. This goK! piene was one of a series struck during the gold fever days in San Francisco as a substitute for regular United States gold coins, of which in the west at the time there was a great scarcity. It is not known how many of these coins are still in existence, but the number is extremely limited. Draws Young Men From Country. The darfting of the yrui; :nen of Germany into the army-hss a tendency to draw them from tlje t.;n ry. for after having lived in a large uly. with its attractions and conveniences, the return to the small village, where' life is necessarily much slower and the opportunities for entertainment much lejs, the desire to return where there. is better pay, shorter hours and more diversity in life usually overpowers Le home interest. DEAR LITTLE CHAP. ? Boh Say. -ma, were men very scarce when yon married pa, or did yon just feel sorry for him? DOCTOR SAID "USE CUTICURA" In Bad Case of Eczema on Child Disease Had Reached a Fearful State His Order Resulted in Complete Cure. "When I was small I was troubled with eczema for about three months. It was all over my face and covered nearly all of my head. It reached such a state that it was just a, large scab all over, and the pain and itching, were "terrible. I doctored with an able physician for some time and was then advised by him to use the Cuticura Remedies which I did and I was en tirely cured. I have not been bothered with it since. I used Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment but do not know exactly how much was used to complete the cure. I can safely say that Cuticura did a lot 'for me. Miss Anabel Wilson, North Branch, Mich., Oct 20. 1907." OBJECT LESSON FOR CHILDREN. Mayor Was Quick to See and Impress Good Point It was five minutes before noon. The mayor and the state snperintend end had spent an hour talking to the children in an Ohio school, ,and just before the stroke of the gong the chairman of the local school commit tee was called upon to follow them. "Children," he said, pointing toward the window, "as you go out from the school in about two minutes yon will see a gang of men who arc now shovel ing cinders into a railway train. They are earning $35 a month. "Beside them is a timekeeper earn ing $55. "At the head of the train is an en gineer getting $100, and over him Is a superintendent getting two hun dred. "What is the difference between those men? Education. Get all you can of it" Youth's Companion. THEN IT LOOKED ABOUT RIGHT. Coal Dealer Understood When Told What Load Represented. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., in one of the last addresses that he made to his Sunday school class before abandon ing it, said of carefulness in business: "Too many business men are care ful oa one side, their own side, only. Thus a coal dealer whom I used to know shouted one afternoon to an em ploye who was driving out of the yard: "'Hold on there, Jim! That coal can't have been weighed. It looks n trifle large for a ton to me. "Jim shouted back: "This ain't a ton, boss. It's two ton.' ' " 'Oh, all right.' said the dealer, in a modified tone. 'Beg your pardon; go ahead.'" Duty Towards Others. Not long ago a kindly disposed lady endeavored to quiz a small boy re garding his Sunday school lesson. "Who is your neighbor?" she asked. "The fellow who lives next door," was the ready response. "But what is your duty toward your neighbor?" persisted the lady. "Oh, to keep an eye on "im," replied the boy cautiously. "Keep an eye on him? What for?" "Just to see that he doesn't take what don't belong to him," was the confident answer. The lady gave up. FOUND A WAY To Be Clear of the Coffee Troubles. "Husband and myself both had the coffee habit and finally his stomach and kidneys got in such a bad condi tion that he was compelled to give up a good position that he had held for years. He was too sick to work. His skin was yellow, and I hardly think there was an organ in his body that was not affected. "I told him I felt sure his sickness was due to coffee and after some dis cussion he decided to give it up. . "It was a struggle because of the powerful habit. One day we heard about Postum and concluded to try it. and then it was easy to leave off coffee. "His fearful headaches grew less frequent, his complexion began .to clear, kidneys grew better until at last he was a new man altogether, as a result of leaving off coffee and tak ing up Postum. Then I began to drink it, too. "Although I was never as bad off as my husband, I was always very nervous and never at any time very strong, only weighing 95 lbs. before L began to use Postum. Xow I weigh 115 lbs. and can do as much work as anyone my size. I think. "Many do not use Postum because they have not taken the trouble to make it right .1 have successfully fooled a great many persons who have drunk it at my table. They would remark, 'You must buy a high grade of coffee.' One young man who clerked in a grocery store was very enthusias tic about my 'coffee.' When I told him what it was, he said, 'why I've sold Postum for four years but I had no idea It was like this. Think 111 drink Postum hereafter.'" Name given by Postum Co.. Battle Creek, Mi-h. Read "The Road to Well- vumV in pkgs. "There's a Reason." j I - 'nniS'V' - .; VIRGINIA MERCHANT RID OF A ,- VERY BIQ QRAVEL STONE. Another Remarkable Cure of Serious Kidney Trouble. C, L. Wood, a prominent merchant of Fentress, Norfolk Co., Va., was suf fering some months ago with frequent at tacks of hard pain In the back, kidneys and bladder and- the kidney secretions rere4 r re g n J a rl y scanty or profuse. Medical treatment failed to cure him. "At last." says Mr. Wood. "I began using- Bonn's Kidney Pills, and before one box was gone. Lwent through four days of Intense pain, finally passing a stone, one-half by five-sixteenths of an inch in diameter. I haven't had a sign of kidney trouble since." Sold by all dealers, 50 cents a box. Foster-MIIburn Co.. Buffalo. N. Y. ART LONG, CREDIT SHORT. "What docs your brother do for a living?" "He's an artist." "I know, so am I. But what docs he do for a living?" Why Sloan's Liniment and Veterinary Remedies Are the Best to Use. Let me tell you why Sloan's Lini ment and Veterinary Remedies are the safest and most practical on the market to-day. In the first place, Dr. Earl S. Sloan is the son of a veterin ary surgeon, and from his earliest in fancy he was associated with horses. He bought and sold horses while yet very young. He practiced as a vet erinary for 20 years and has battled successfully with every disease to which that animal is subject All his remedies are the result of experiments made to save life or re lieve suffering while he was practic ing his profession. Any reader, by writing to Dr. Earl S. Sloan, 615 Albany Street, Boston, Ma3s.. will receive "Sloan's Treatise on the Horse," free. This book tells how to treat horses, cattle, hogs, and poultry. Both Worked Well. A correspondent sent this "pome" to the New York Sun: Jack Spratt be neath his hat concealed a shining pate; his wife she wore a budding beard, most foeful to relate. Apothe cary shops they sought in utterest despair. "Sure Hair Restorer" Jack then bought; his wife bought "Anti Hair." One night some sprite in dire delight the bottles did misplace, and ' Mrs. Jack applied, alack. Jack's lotion to- her face. While Jack, alack, took from the rack a bottle on which read: "Depilatory, Use -with Care" and doused it on bis head. Jack Spratt beneath his hat now sports a lion's mane, his wife is hsppy, for her face is soft and smooth again. Sheer white goods, in fact, any fine wash goods when new, owe much of their attractiveness to the way they are laundered, this being done in a manner to enhance their textile beau ty. Home laundering would be equal ly satisfactory if proper attention was given to starching, the first essential being good Starch, which has sufficient strength to stiffen, without thickening the goods Try Defiance Starch and you will be pleasantly surprised at the improved appearance of your work. Many Can Appreciate. Mrs. Enpeck I wonder why It It that Jokes about the squabbles of mar ried people have such a run! Mr. Enpeck I I don't know, my dear, unless it is that so many people are married. Kansas City Times Lemon, Chocolate and Custard Pies. It does not require an experienced cook to make good pies from "OUR-PIB." Just the proper proportions of all ingredients are In the package ready for immediate use. At grocers. 10 cents per package Order a few packages to-day. Great beauty and great virtue are always inaccessible except to those who strive, who learn to accept, un derstand and enjoy them. Sterne. That Dry Hacking Cough needs attention. Ask your druggist for Brown's Bronchial Troches which will quickly relieve the. cough. Be proud of the achievements or others. Their success is making your work worth while. We Sell Guns and Traps Buy Furs & Hides, ortan them forrobesand rugs. N. W. Hide & Fur Co., Minneapolis. Nevada seems apt to forge to the first place in the production of pre cious metals. JXSV ONK "BROMO QUININE Ttati LAXATIVE BBOM.tQClMNK. Look for the inaure ol B. W. GROVE. Uvxl tLa WorlS aver to Cere a CuM la One liar. lie. Put It out of the power of truth to give you an ill character. Marcus Antoninu3. Lewis' Single Binder straight . cigar made cf rich, mellow tobacco. Your deal er or Lewis' Factory, Peoria, 111. Every woman thinks she has a right to make a fool of some man. Drink Garfield Tea at night! It insures a. normal action of liver, lnrtnrrn ritomarh and bowels, and overcomes constipation. Too many people .feather their nests with borrowed plumes. Mrs. Syraa. Tor calMrea teeUaar. cofkeas the mama. auajsaaa. ascabauis. Political conventions seldom go un-bossed. " '-iifiaaaP? waaac HE KNEW. aaanaaavaw Father Yes. you're a regular little pig! Wouldn't give your brother any of that candy. Do yon know what a little pig is? Kid Er or sure er pig bog's little boy. Traveler's Picture Becks. Picture books for the benefit of trav elers are kept in the Paris police sta tions. It frequently occurs that for eigners lose things which they are unable to describe, because 'of their unfamlliarity with the French lan guage. The picture books contain rep- rresentations of various articles, and the inquirer has only to turn the leaves and point out the illustrations which resemble the property he lost. - Deafness Cannot Be Cured ty ItcjI applications, a taey caaaot teach tin d: axed pvwUoa of tha ear. Taera t uaiy m .r care lealseaa.ia4 taat Is b coutltat.osal reiaediea. DeaTBesa la earned by aa ialamed cuaditt of tha raucous llala or tbe Eustachian Tube. Wsea tab tubeU iallaraed yuaaavea nmblfagauaodor lia- Uun, beariajr. will be destroyed furerer: alae cae oot of tea' are caased by Catarrh, which I notbluj but aa latamed e adltloa of the nine ma surface. We will give One HanJred O Hare for aay rate of Peafneaa (canted by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Haifa Catarrh Cure. 8nlf.rnfreimr.frec. F. J. CHEXEV CO., Tlei. O Fold br I)ragrlt. 3c Take Uall'a Family PIIU for conatlpauos. Crusher for Papa. "Chalmont, you don't know your geography lesson at all to-night." said Gunson, Sr. "When I was your age I could answer practically every ques tion in the book." "Well, pa." retorted Gunson, Jr., "I guess you had some intelligent person .to help you with your horns work." The Pe-ru-na Almanac in 8,000,000 Homes. Tbe Peruna Lucky Day Almanac has become a fixture in over eight million homes. It can be obtained from all druggists free. Be sure to inquire early. The 1908 Almanac is already published, and the supply will soon be exhausted. Do not put it.off. Speak for one to-day. The Other Side. Landlady Are you so particular about having a quiet room because you sleep in the daytime? De Toot No. maam. I practice on the flute several hours a day, and any other sound jars on my sensitive soul. Harper's Weekly. 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