The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1857-03-25
FRAUDS.
A FUGITIVE FROM JUSTICE.

An extensive and most audacious scheme
Tor counterfeiting two popular medical prep
srations has recently been brought to light
IN this city. A few of the leading facts
nave appeared in reports Of the legal pro-
eeedings growing out Of the affair, but its
comprehensive character, ..as been but
'mperfcctly developed in these brief state.
hents, II would seem that the principal
per.on implicated in this transaction ia a
drug broker named William Leith. lately do.
ing business ats Gold street and 5 William
street IN this c:ty, and residing at 4 Union
street, Brooklyn. He has conceived the
idea OF establishing a factory for the pur-
pose OF counterfeiiing. Cd n wholesale scale
the most popular and widely advertised
medicines in the civilized world, viz EIol-
inway's o ntment and Holloways Pills
This audxcious project he intended to carry
OFT in the city Of New York, almost within
hail, an it were, Of the great central Office
Tor the sale of Holloway's medicines in this
country! lie had, it appears, ordered no
iess than 100000 copies of the pamphlet
or book of directions arou nd each box, and
the printer to whom the order WAS given
snpposing IL 10 emenatc from Professor
Holloway, had no hesitation in executing
the work. An accident led to the detection
of the fraud. Leith failed to meet an obi.
CATION ne had given for a portion of the Job
and tie printer went TO Professor Holloway.
establishment, 80 Mailen Lane to inquire
the cause. Then of course, the fraud was
disclosed. and it was found, on comparing
the counterfeit wrappers with the original,
that tho former Were perfect fac SimiLcs Of
the latter, with the exception of the uater
mark. This water mark consists Of the
words Holloway, New York and London"
and Is visible upon every leaf Of the anthem
tic pamphlet when held against the light
In all other respects, there was n perfect
identity between the false document and ,he
true
William Leith, the author of this afro.
e'ous forgery, was subsequently arrested
ana fully charged, on examination before
the committing Magistrate, with procuring
ihe printing and uttering of the above coun.
%tcrfri;s bat through nn ndissretion on the
part OF The magistrate, he managed to es.
cape from the custody Of the officers, and -
now a fugitive from justice. Professor
itoiioway's agents are on the 9ui rirs. TO
discover lis whereabouts, bu. so far he has
sluded their vigilance. lie is n Scotchman
by birth, and still preserves a little of the
accent; i,is voice is deep, his articulation
emphatic, and in speaking he ges,iculat. g
n good deal, aud inIeriards his sentences
with frequent "aths. His height - about 3
feet 81 INCHES. his person rather stout, com
plcxion tlorid, light hair and thin ~whiskcrs,
ard his ago about 35 years. Ills nd.
dress is good and business. like. As
IL is not known 10 what extent he NAV have
c"nrtcrFritcd the medicines, it would be well
Tor druggist in E,e interior 10 beware Of pur-
chasing aTt,eles purporting to be iiol.owy's
r"rirdic" from irresponsible parties. There
Is one test nf genuineness, which may how
ever be relied upon the ,caler mark on the
leaves OF the book OF directions accon plny-
log aud enveloping each box of the Pills
and pot Of the Ointment. If, when tie Ieai
Is held between the eye and the light, the
words Holloway, New York and London,'
are discernablc in emi-transpaTent letters,
in the substance Of the paper, then the pam.
phlets and the medicines they envelope are
genuine ; if 10, they are psraioious counter
Jets. Let this test hc universally adopted.
-NdtioHai Police Gazette Nsw YUrk.