Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-04-07
Wholesale Frauds.
A FUGITIVE FROM JUSTICE.


An extensive and most audacious scheme
for counterfeiting two popular medicinal
preparations has recently been brought To
light in this city A few OF the Leading
facts have appeared iii reports of the legal
proceedings growing out Of ;he affair." put
its comprehensive character, has been but
imperfectly developed in these brief state
ments. 1t would seem that the principal
person implicated in this transaction is
drug broker named VIM. Leith, lately do
ing busines at Gold street and William
street, in this city, and residing at Un-
ion street, Brooklyn. He had conceived
the idea of establishing factory for the
purpose of oounteFfeiting, on. = wholesale
scale, the most popular and widely adver-
tised medicines in the civilized world, viz:
HoL LowAY's PILLS and HoLLowAY's ONT
MENT. This audacious project he intend
ed to carry out in the city OF New orK,
almost within hail, rs it were, OF the great
central office for the sale of Holloway's
medicines in this country He had, 1t ap-
pears, ordered no less than SOC, 900 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 hes
itation in executing the work. An acci-
dent led to the detection of the fraud
Leith failed to meet an obligation he had
given tor a portion Of the job, and the
printer went to Professor Holloway's es-
tablishment 80 Maiden Lane, to inquire
the cause. Then, of course, the fraud
| was disclosed, and it was found, on COM
pairing the counterfeit wrappers with tho
original, that the former were perfect fac
SMILES of the latter, with the exception OF
the aoater-mark. This water-mark con-
! sists of the words stHoLLowAY, NEW
York AND LONDON" and Is visible upon
every leaf of the authentic pamphlet when
held against the light. In all other re-
spects, there was perfect identity between
! the false document and the true.
William Leith, the author of this afro
cious forgery, was subsequently arrested,
and fully charged, on examination before
the committing magistrate, with procuring
the printing and uttering of the above
counterfeits, but through an indiscretion
on the part of the magistrate, he managed
to escape from the custody of the officers,
and is now fugitive from justice. Pro
fessor Holloway's agents are on the q~'
vive to discover his whereabouts, but sc
far he has eluded their vigilance. lie Is
a Scotchman by birth, and still preserves
a little of the accent; his voicels deep, his
articulation emphatic, and i'll speaking ht
gesticulates a. good deal, and lnterlards his
Sentences with frequent oaths. Ills neigh
is about feet 81 inches, his person rathe
stout, complexion florid, light hair ant
thin whiskers, and his age about 35 years
His address is good and business-llke -
, AS it is not known to what extent he ma.
have counterfeited the medicines, it woul'
be we'll for druggists in the interior to be
ware of purchasing articles purporting t
be Holloway's remedies from irresponsible
parties. There is one test of genulnness
which may however, be relied upon, VIZ
the aoater-naar6 on the leaves of the bool
5 of directions accompanying and envelop
| ing each box Of the Pills and pot OF tn
Ointment. If, when the leaf is held be
tween the eye and the light, the word
.HoLLowAY, NEW YoRK AND LONDON,
, are discernible in semi-transparent letters
in the substance of the paper, then tn,
pamphlets and the medicines they enve
;. ope are genuine; if not they are pem'c'OIs1
r cou,aterfe1s. Let this test be UNIVERSAL
adopted.-Natiomol Police Gazette.