Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-12-15
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Cincinnati Commercial N. Y. Special, l0th.l
The most wholesale gobbling up Of
|swindlers that has lately been made in
this city was effected this evening by
Captain Jeremiah Petty, who arrested
John Henekler alias John Heurs, and
his partner, William Turner, on the
charge of larceny. By trick and device
Henekler and Turner, under the aliases
of Owen Bros, James Fisher Il Co., and
johnson & Co., transacted the queer
business in the large four-story building,
No. 81 Nassau street, which, forming an
L, has also frontage at No. 80 Liberty
street By means of circulars sent
through the mails to thousands of per-
sons in the country, and through the
medium of advertising, they made it ap-
pear that they manufactured counterfeit
United States currency, which they OF
fered to sell in any quantity and in any
denomination from twenty-five cent
stamps up to fivedollar treasury notes.
These spurious notes, they pretended,
we're in every particular as good as the
genuine. The best talent in the country
was employed in the execution of the
plate, and no expense was spared to rem
der them perfect, so that expert judges
we're unable to tell them from the genu-
inc. But short time elapsed after they
began operations, in August last, before
the bait which they had thrown to allure
the unwary was swallowed, hook and all,
by at least two thousand fools, whose
anxiety to purchase and pass counterfeit
money cannot be fitly described.
The swindling concern is doubtless the
parent stem of many establishments
which have recently been visited by the
police. The swindlers occupied rooms
Nos. 30, "a, &c and 3s, on the third floor
of 81 Nassau street, and two very large
rooms in the fourth story. Two of the
rooms were those occupied by the pro-
prietors and their chief clerk, Frank Al
len, who managed all the correspond
ence with their patrons, pocketed their
money and grew fat with laughter at the
expense of the fools. The remaining
rooms were occupied by their employees
eleven girls, three men and three boys:
The girls we're employed in folding and
mailing circulars, and were paid from
five to seven dollars a week for their SER
vices. The men occupied large apart
ment on the upper floor, known as the
packing room, to which no one but the
proprietor was allowed access. In this
apartment we're one hundred soft pine
deal boxes of three sizes, each packed
with shavings, and pound of old scrap
iron. The original letters and circulars,
setting forth the scheme, brought to
this enterprising concern orders for
thousands of dollars of counterfeit
money, which the applicants had planned
to circulate. Having read these letters
ofapplicants, the Nassau street swindlers
answered with another circular, acknowl-
edging the receipt Of the requisite per
eentage, and adding that the box con-
tanning the "queer" had been sent by
express on time. The box marked MIR.
-, C. o. D., reached its destination,
and the dupe eagerly paid his fifty to one
hundred dollars to the expressman; then
the victim hastened home, and opening
his nicely sealed box, found his prize a
handful of shavings and bit Of old iron
with circular, advising him not to be
surprised at the contents, as 1t was n
dodge to blind the detectives. he must
keep mum and the stuff would be mailed
to him in a few days Hundreds and
thousands in every section of the country
are still waiting. The principals in this
enormous fraud for the fellowship real
lied at least $4,000, were locked up in
different cells, while the girls and boys
were sent home,