Weekly Trinity journal., 1857-05-02
WHOLESALE FRArDs.--A FrGrIvE FROM JUSTICE.

WHOLESALE FRAUDs.--A FuGITIvE FROM JUSTICE.
An extensive and most audacious scheme for
counterleitng two popular medical 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 out of the
affair but its comprehensive character. has been
but impcrfcctly developed in these brief state
mcnts. 1t would seem that the principal person
implicated in this transaction is drug broker
named william Lcith lately doing business at
Gold street and William street, in this city, and
residing at Union street. Brooklyn. He had
conceived the idea of establishing a factory for
the purpose of countelfeiting. on a wholesale
scale, the most popular and widely advertised
medicines in the civilized world. viz HOiiOcdy'S
Pills and HoHooays Ointment. This audaciouS
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 lloloway's
medicines in this country lie had il appears
ordered no less than 500, 900 copies of the pam.
phlet or book of directions, around each box and
the printer TO whom the order was given suppos-
ing it to emanate fiom Professor Holloway. had
no hesitation in executing the work. An accident
led to the detection Of the fraud Leith failed to
meet and obligation he had given for portion of
the job, and the printer went to Professor IIollo.
ways establishment, so Maiden Lane, to inquire
the cause. Then. of course. the fraud was dis
closed, and it was found. on comparing the coun-
terfet wrappers with the original, that the for
mcr were perfect fac simiies of the latter, with
the exception Of The tcdier marh. This water
mark consists Of the wordc HOLLOWAY New York
and London and is visible upon every leaf of
the authentic pamphlet when held against the
light. In all other respects, there was perfect
identity between the false document and the true.
William Lcith, the anthor of this atrocions for
gerry, was subsequently arrested, and fully charg-
ed, on examination b, fore the committing mags-
tratc. with procuring the printing aad utering of
the above countcrfrts. but through an indscre-
ton on the part Of the magistrate, h. managed to
escape rom the custody of the officers and is now
a fugitive from justice. Professor Holloway's
agents arc on the qUi riue to discover his whcrea-
bouts but so far he has cluded their vigilance
He is Scotchman by birth, and still preserves
little Of the accent his voice is deep. his articu-
lation emphatic. and in speaking he gesticulates
good deal, and interlards his sentences with
frequent oaths. His height is about feet 81
inches, his person rather stout. complexion norid
light hair and thin whskers, and his age about
So years. His address is good and business.like
AS it is not known to what extent he may have
counterleited the medicines, il would be well for
druggists in the interior TO beware OF purchasing
articles purporlng to be Holoway's remedies
from irresponsible parties There is one test of
genuincss, which may however, be relied upon
viz the trdtermark on the leaves OF the book of
directions accompanying and envcloping each
box of the Pills and pot of the Ointment II,
when the leaf is held between the eye and the
light the words Holloway, New York and Lon
dom are discernibe in semi-trausparent letters
IN the substance of the paper, then the pamphlets
and the medicines they envelOp are genuine if
not they are peH8icscHs 60Unterf6tS. Let this
test bo universally dopted.-.Nationai Police
Gazette, Netc York