The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-04-30
A INDUSTRIOUS SWINDLE.
A. A. KELLY & CO.-KELLY' s ILLUSTRATED
NEWSPAPER.

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endorsements as follows: "a seindle
! no ralue to the prizes. Now we presume
our readers will ask: "How is this?
& Co., which states that the first grand
dollars to Kellys Illustrated Newspaper
has taken place, and that our ticket has
drawn prize valued at $500, which we
can have on payment of $40. We send
it to you with the so, and instead of re-
and money with the simple endorsement,
| A sacjitdle; no rdlue IN the qrize,
| Perhaps description Of our last inter
view with this worse than thief will some
what, enlighten our friends. It was IN
reference to a notification sent to us by
lady residing in Lowell, Mass, and read
as follows:
'sNEw York, March Is, 1868. e..
MADAM: You are hereby notified that
your ticket No. :, has drawn prize
valued at 1925 Five per cent, on this
amount will be Sc 25. This amount of
assessed per cehtage must in all cases be
sent on. receipt Of this motto with direc-
tons by what express you want the prize
sent. Signed
A A. KELLY & Co.,
sos Broadway.
Now we happen to know that A. A.
Kelly could only be found in a small office
down town. and not at sos Broadway;
and as we wished to see him personally,
we took friend as witness to what might
be said, and went to the above named
small office. We will not attempt to de-
scribe the man those wishing descrip-.
ton are referred to the records of the
criminal courts of Chicago;) suffice 1t to
say we found him and showing the notice,
politely requested to 'now what this
valuable prize consisted of Mr.. K in
formed us that if we would leave the
notice and our address he would give us
the desired information the next day.
We replied, 'Mr Kelly, we have had a
great many of these notices sent to us, and
all that we have presented have drawn
the same kind of valuable prizes, viz,
Sandy River Petroleum Stock. We pre-
sumo, sir, that this is the same thing and
that all your valuable prizes are the same
IN character Now, sir, you know that
this stock is worth not one cent, and you
ask this poor woman to send you Sc %,
by representing to her, in very ingen-
iously and carefully written circular, that
she has drawn prize worth $l25.
Mr.. *. That stock is valuable, sir. very
valuable.
We understand, !'It is not worth one
cent share, and you cannot find a man
in this city who will give that for it. y
Mr. X. you have no business in this
Office If you want to know anything
about the prizes you must go to. the, up
town office [ will have nothing more to
say to you, and if you do not leave | will
put you out.
We replied, ''But, Mr.. Kelly, we have
this notice signed by you, which is suffi
cient evidence that we have business
here, and we have business here, and we
intend to finish that business before we
90.
Mr. K [ don't care for YOU. You are
miserable, low dogs, and [ despise you
\ on are trying to pry into my business,
which does not concern you, and (ralslng
chair if you don t leave this minute l
will break your heads J.
We replied that we were not to be in
Inundated by his threats or demonstra-
tons, we were prepared to defend our
selves, and would leave as soon as we had
| finished our business. "Now, Mr. Kelly,
can you show US, here or at your other
office, any satisfactory proof that any
person has ever drawn prize from you
that was worth as much as the draw
| back fee which you call for before deliver
ing the prize, if Of any value at all? If
you can satisfy us of this we have nothing
more to say; L not, we shall endeavor to
caution the public against your swindling
operations Here is our card, and if you
! 1o-,va 70. boli bf ha,lp
| to hear rom You at any time.
We presume Mr.. Kelly does not wish
to see his patrons, inasmuch. as he says
in his circular, ''Do not send to your
| friends in the city to call on US or examine
the prizes, for it gives us much trouble. J"
| We should think likely it would cause
| considerable trouble.
He claims half million circulation to
! his paper, when we doubt if he has ten
/ thousand. Every one who subscrbes
will be sure to draw a prize. for it will be
readily seen that there Is ~ where makes
| enormous profits, getting SO or 800
worth OF petroleum stock, which costs
him robably, a fraction of cent. ~
| Now the fact is, A. A. Kelly is one of
the worst confidence men and swindlers
we have ever heard of, and it is great
pity that when the officers Of the law had
! him in their clutches in Chicago that
! they should have allowed him to escape
When 4 plckpoeket takes our watch or
purse we cab almost admire his bold and
skillful performance. The thief who
! enters our dwelling at hight iiiaS the man
Illness to face the danger of being shot;
| but this man, by a tissue of false repre-.
sensations and hes, takes our money in a
way which no thief or pickpocket would
| stCCp to.
There are other concerns in this city
that we shall attend to in our next
We do not intend that there shall be any
rest for these humbugs, if we can prevent
ut; and if the country press would take
| this matter in hand they would be but
furnishing the ends of justice as well as
| duty to their readers 1t should be
/ known that these, parties operate entirely
in the country, and consequently the
country papers can dp more than those
published in this city Notwithstanding
this business Improbable, The most We
can do is TO furnish facts, which will
enable country editors to write under
standingly on the subject and they will
prove recreant to their readers if they
do not use their influence to protect the
public from these swindling operators.
At a public school exhibition in a
Michigan village, one of the visitors
made brief address to the pupils, on
the necessity of obeying their teachers
and growing up Toying aud useful citizens.
To give emohaSiS to his remark Ks he