Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-04-16
-wHOLEsALE FRAUDS.
FUGITIVE FROM JUSTICE.

An e~xtensire and most audaeious
scheme for counterfeiting two popular
medicinal preparations has recently been
brought to light in this city. A few OF
the leading facts have appeared in re-
ports of the legal proceedings growing
Nput of the affair, but its comprehensive
Character, has been but imperfectly de-
veloped in these brief statements. L
Seuld seem that the principal person
implicated in this transaction is a drug
broker named WILLIAM LEITH, lately
doing business at Gold street and VIII
liam street, in this city, and residing al
4,Cnion street, Brooklyn. He had
conceived the idea of establishing a fac,
tory for the purpose of CONTRIBUTING
on. a Wholesale scale, the most popular
and widely advertised medicines in the
civilized world, VIZ: HoLLowAY's PILLS
And HoLkowAY's OINTMENT. This au-
dacious project he intended to carry out
in the city of New York, almost within
hail, as it were of the great central office
for the sale of Holloway's medicines in
this country! He had, it appears, or
dcred no less han 500 1000 copies of the
pamphlet or book of directions, around
each box, and the printer to whom the
order was given, suppOsing it to eman
ate from Professor Holloway, had no
hesitation in executing the work. An
accident led to detection of the fraud.
keith failed to meet an obligation he had
given for a portion of the job, and the
printer went to Professor H~olloway's es-
adjustment. so Maiden Lane to inquire
the cause. Then, of course, the fraud
was disclosed, and it was found, on COM
pairing the counterfeit wrappers with the
original, that the former were perfect
.tdc sfasiJes of the latter, with the except
ION of the pdter-nldrk mark consists of
the words "HoLLowAY,NEw YORK AND
LoNDoN," aud is visible upon every leaf
of the authentic pamphlet when held
against the light. In all other respects,
there was a perfect identity between the
false document and the true.
VIM. Leith, the author of this atroci-
Gus forgery, was subsequently arrested,
and fully charged, on examination be-
fore the committing magistrate, with
procuring the printing and uttering of
the above eounterfeits, but through an
indiScretion on the part of the magistrate,
he managed to escape from the custody
at the officers, and IS now a fugitive from
justice. Professor Holloway's agents
are or the qui oice to discover his where
abouts, but Sc far he has eluded their
vigilance. He is a Seotchman by birth,
and still preserves a little of the accent;
his voice is deep, his articulation en-
rhatie, and in speaking he gesticufates
Il good deal, and interlands his senten-
ces with frequent oaths. His height is
about . feet 81 inches, his person rather
stout, complexion forid, light hair and
thin whiskers, and his age about 35
years. His address is good and business
ike. As it is not known to what ex-
tent lie may have counterfeited the med
icincs, it would be we'll for druggists in
the interior to beware of purchasing
articles %purporting to be HoLIowAYs
lies from. irresponsible parties.-i
There is n test of genuineness.
may however, be relied npon viz:
the trater-n'drk on the lcaHes of. the book
directions accompanying and envel-
each box of the Pills and pot of
the Ointment. If, when the leaf is held
the eye and the light, the words
SlI0ILowAY, New YORK n LoNnoN,"
are d~iscernible in semi-transparent let
ters, IN the substance of the paper. then
the pamphlets and the medicines they
envelope are genuine; if not they are
J,eTnictoas eONntertrits. Let this test be
universally adopted.
Nu6o2,ai Police Gd1ete Ne0c York.