The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-03-26
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4 gentleman of South Byron, New
York, sends TO the editor of the Roches
ter Inion and .idrertiser, the following
written circular with printed letter-head
and cut of hands clasped in union:
John 4. LYON, SPECIAL kGENT, JACKSON
BENEFIT ASSOCIATION.
MONDAY, p. NJ, March IL, 1867.
You will see by the catalogue that
the ticket You hold has drawn q prize of
500.
If you will tell no one and follow my
instructions, you can obtain part or
the whole of the prize.
This money does not come out OF my
pocket, nor even pass through my hands,
i'm, comes to YOU direct from the Treas
urrr's Office: but shall expect you to
show YOUR "greenbacks" to your friends,
and sell all the tickets you can for ME
IN tnture distributions, as all the bene-
III derive is n commission upon all
tickets sold through my office.
To obtain this prize money, you must
have a receipt from the Trustees, to
show that Your ticket has been paid for.
TO get one. write me q letter, DATED
In.n,Y. March llth) and enclose $40
for onr-ffth. $25 for one-half, or $50 for
rhc whole. being sure to state in your
I,ttrr the number of each Treasury note
or Bank bill you send; also, to write
,onr name yourself, upon one corner OF
,br back of each, to dr0id suspicion and
nrryrnt the return of your money and
,,irr dishonored by the Trustees.
Il, rcrV careful what you write, as l
have to omen all letters receive before
rhe Board of Trustees, and they, finding
rhr DATE OF YOUR LETTER will alter
rEr pnstmark) and the money correct,
will s,nd you receipt that will secure
10 you the money your ticket has drawn.
As soon as YOU receive the Trustees
Recent, YOU will forward your ticket
to th, Treasurer, and tell him to what
Express Office to send your prize money;
Won will deliver the Trustees Receipt
10 the Express, who will return 1t to the
Treasurer to show that the prize has
been paid.
Hoping that you will not bctray my
confidence III you, and that you will sell
many tickets for.me.
am, your friend,
JOHN A. LYON.
The circular isaccOmpanied by card
npon the front and back of which Is
printed:
John A. Lyon, General Freight Agent
of the Indiana, Ohio and West Virginia
Railroad. Graftos, West Virginia.
Rcferences-GeOrge II. MinOt, Presl-
dent Central Ohio Railroad, Wheeling,
apolis. Indiana LongwoIth, West 4
Co. Bankers, Cincinnati, Ohio; Fourth
National Bank, Chicago, Illinois.
Having been appointed Special Agent
for the Jackson Benefit Association,
enclose to your address q sample Ticket
aud wish YOU to buy or dispose of .fhe
same.
If you should be SO lucky as to draw
a prize through my agency shall ex-
pect Won 10 sell many tickets for me, IS
all make ont of it is go much per cent
age upon all tickets sold through my
office: so you will address all orders to
me. and will pass them over to the
Trustees for inspection.
should Won have any dOubt about the
reliability of the Association or my re-
spOnsihilty, should be most happy for
YOU To communicate with the persons
10 whom refer: also to any Banking
House in Cincinnati, Chicago or st.
Louis.
"Onr correspondent" says the Union
and .idretiST. "who knows nothing OF
this pretended Jackson Benefit Associ-
alton. or the man Lyon, writes that
many of the circulars are being scat
tered through this vicinity to such ad-
dresses as have been procured for the
purpose" The completeness OF the
swindle will he manifest to all of our
local readers, and for the benefit
of other communities we would remark
that there is no such association
in this State rs that named in the cir
cular. We are confidant there is no
such man as JoHS A. LYON at Grafton,
but that the name is assumed to aid in
carrying ont the swindle. There can
be no General Freight Agent of the In
diana, Ohio and West Va. Railroad
located ut Grafton, Tor the simple rea-
son that there is no road of that name
in existence.
Among the references" the name OF
"GEoRGE II. MINoT, President Central
Ohio Railroad. Wheeling, West Na.,"
will be new TO our community there
being no person Of that hame or posi-
tion resident in this city. The other
references" oil thelgensrous "LIoN"
are doubtless equally mythical. In
short, the circular is merely the inven-
ton of some knavish swindler who is
seeking to impose upon verdancy and
crcdulity, as will probably be apparent
10 mos; of she recipients of the docu-
'nrnt.