The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-02-14
Our Collector


Nur Collector
will visit the patrons ofthe REGiS'hh ~
80 those who have not ye'
Maid in the First Ward to-ino''o" 60
hope that all will have inc ''"
ready.
T,,cx The Pittsburg Post,
@r1,v saws - sharp trek was
nlaIed in this city few Gays aso, a -,
pi"!, .on,e Of our leading business men
,,,Ir escaped being the victims A
man handsomely dressed ana
,ortino a cane and mustache, arrived
hnro rrpresenting himself as the agent oil
r,,,,dce & Co, Wheeling The pre-
ended agent wanted to purchase large
.,nount of goods for the firm, anu after
Letting his intended yictims, he bought
,,oods from them tn the amount oil sew
r,l Thousand dollars. He bought TO-
,,cro syrups, butter, dry goods, &c, APP
,orently not paying any attention to the
fact that great business men nowadays
,.n,t keen every conceivable conmod-
Nv in a single warehouse. This faet
lone wonld have led to his detection.
unfortunately the different firms did
p,t inquire much about the character OF
tb,ir worthy customer. and the game
ros not discovered Having bought the
oools which. it would be useless to add
he did not pay for, he made arrangements
"a have them shipped to Wheeling ana
left this city :,
"Immediately after the sharper had
taken his departure, one OF our wholesale
yroeers shipped large quantity OF mo-
lssses TO Messrs. Elbridge 4 Co, Wheel
inc Another firm from whom the pre-
tended agent had bought butter and
otbar articles to large amount were not
40 ouick in fulfilling their contract, but
-, racsivino a telegram from their late
customer, requesting them to send the
goods TO their place of destination as de
Law would be ruinoas they, being in good
faith. Immediately complied with the re-
quest. The tobacconist, Oh the other
hand, whether it was that he "smelt
rat" or was unwilling to risk his goods
before receiving anything for them, gave
the agent TO understand that he would
not supply Elbridge & Co or ANY other
man" with tobacco unless he got the
hard cash in return. The agent did not
persist in his demands, and manifested a
desire to wait Other parties, who in
like manner were imposed upon, either
had the goods shipped or were bnsily en-
gagged making the necessary preparations
for doing so
Fortunately, however, some one got a
clue to the real state of affairs, and the
goods, which We're first sent to Wheeling,
we're stopped at Bridgeport and soon af-
ter returned to the rightful owners. The
butter and other articles did not arrive
at their place of destination, but were
sent back as soon rs it was discovered
how matters stood, and arrangements
were made to have the agent brought to
Pittsburg. but on searching for that wor'
thy he was nowhere to he found. While
inquiring for his name we became pos
sessed of sufficient circumstantiai evl
dence to convince rs that the young maj
was by no means particular as regards
consistency in this respect; so that If any
of our citizens shall ever know hiQl they
will not be indebted to his name for 1t
The names of the parties who became
the victims of the swindlingpropensltles,
for obvious reasons we refrain from max
ing public. We will take this opportu-
nifty to inform those whomay have goods
directed to Elbridge y Co, that they
ueed not send them for the present"
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