Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1857-03-13

| -, From the National Police Gazette New York
| Wholesale fRAuDs.-A FuGiTIvE FROM
JUSTICE. An extensive and most q udacious
scnehe Tor counterieiting two popular med-
cal preparations has recently been brought
to light in this city. A few of the leading
facts have appeared in reports of the legal
| proceedings growing out of the affair. but
its comprehensive character has been i'm
perfectly developed in these brief sta Elements
1t would seem that the principal person
Implicated in the transaction is n drug
broker named WILLIAM LEITH, lately doing
business at Gold street and William st.,
IN this city, and residing at Union street,
Brooklyn. lie had conceived the idea of
establishing factory for the purpose of
counterfeiting, on q wholesale scale, the
most popular and widely advertised medi
eines IN the civilized world, viz Hollow.
Ais PILLs and HoLIowAr's OiHTNENT.-
This audacious project he intended to carry
out In the city OF New York, almost within
nail, as 1t were, of the great central Office
for tho sale of Holloway's medicine. in this
country lie had, it appears, ordered no
less than 500, 900 copies Of the pamphlet or
DOCK OF directions, around each box, and
the printer to whom the order was given
supposing it to emanate from Professor
Holloway, had no hesitation in executing
the work. An action led to the detection
ot the fraud. Leith had failed to meet an
obligation no had given for a portion of the
loo. and the printer went to Professor Hol-
loways establishment: 80 Maiden Lane, to
Inquire the cause. Then, of course. the
fraud waI disclosed, and it was found. on
comparing the counterfeit wrappers with
the original, that the former were perfect
Jas simihcS Of the latter, with the execution
OF the raier marx. This water-mark con-
hsts OF the words "IIoLLowAY, NV York
AND LONDON and 10 visible upon every leaf
OF the authentic pamphlet when held against
the light. In all other respects, there was |
perfect Identity between the false doeu- |
ment and the trne.
lillian Leith. the author of this atroci-
ou' forgery. WAS subsequently arrested, and
Iuhy charged, on examination before the
'oinmittlng-m magistrate, with procuring the
pi lhtlng and uttering of the above counter
slts' but through an indiscretion on the part
81 the magistrate he managed to escare from
ne custody OF the officers, and is now furi-
i've from justice. Prof. Huloway's agents are
N tho qui rirs to discover his Whereabouts,
1ut SO fur he has eluded their vigilance. He
5 a Scotchman by birth and still preserves
little OF the accent his voice is deem. hi.
articulation emphatic, and in speaking he
'e'ticulates good deal, and interlards his
entences with frequent oaths. His height
about feet "a inches, hi, person rather
tout, complexion ford, light hair and thin
shlskers, and hs age about SO years. His
ddress IS good and business like. As it is
ct known to what extent he may have
the medicines, it would be
'ell for druggists in the interior to beware
purchasing articles purporting to be HoL-
WAYS remedies from irresponsible parties.
here IL one test Of genuineness, which NAV
owever, DO relied upon. viz the ,caier.
'drh on the leaves Of the book of directions
ccompanying and envelopng each box of
he Pills and pot Of the Ointment. If ,
hen the leaf is held between the eve and
lie light, the words =. Holloway, NEw
DIRK AND LONDON" are discernible in semi
ansparent letters, in the substance of the
iper, then the pamphlets and the mcdi-
mes they envelope are genuine if not they
70 Pern'csOuS cOunferfats. Let this test
universally adOnted