The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1874-02-10
. SHE IRlBUHE.
oUn NEW YORK LETTER.
New YORK. Feb. 5. 1874.
SwINDLES

Out of the million OF people who make
up the population of this great Babel,
fully one hundred thousand live on the
labor of others-that isto say, ARE thieves
of one sort or another The worst OF
these are the advertising thieves, for
while they steal, they do 1t in such
an ingenious way as to escape the penal
ties of the law. The history of one or
two of them may not be uninterestlng.
sc. r. Murray & Co., is good
name. Well, G. r. M. & Co, advertise
that they possess 81, 50O,0 GEO of watches,
pianos and jewelry, which they Will
distribute" by lot at one dollar for each
ticket. You are invited to send twenty
five cents to these benevolent gentlemen,
receiving therefor ticket which des-
cribes the prize you are entitled to.
You send your twenty-five cents and you
do get ticket Like this:
MERCANTILE PRIZE ASSOCIATION.
Certificates No. 22733.
sHThis certificate when accompanied by
one dollar, (and fifty cents for pachng),
entities the holder to one Silver-Hunting
Cased Watch, valued at $3.50. State
how you wish it sent. %
Now send $3.50 and what happens.
Nothing. You never near of it again.
And as these fellows get letters by the
bushel, every one of which contains
money, it is not difficult to suppose that
they live in clover. Their Office is. in
one advertisement. in one place IN
another, another SO that the victim In
search of them never find them. The
police get after them, but they change
their style so frequently that it is iEapos-
sible to catch them.
The fellows who are to-day doing bus
mess over the name of G. r, Murray &
Co, have within year been known as
the United States Tontine Association,
of % Park Row as Norton, Quinn &
Co., of 212 Broadway as Holiday,
Lewis & Co., of % Park Row as Wal
ter B. Turner & Co., of TAO Broadway
as H. H Briddle & Co., of so Broad
stseet; as Chester " Dudley & Co., of
81 New street as Alvah Young, of 205
Broadway; as Edward Seville & Co., of
"a New street as Oswald West & Co., of
40 Broad street; as S. Soloman & Co.,
OF GA Broadway. But ingenious as the
gentlemen are the last two months has
Developed a more
GORGEOUS sCOUNDRELIsM.
The only expense attending these swim
les is the advertising, and how to dodge
them has been the question with them.
Two of these thieves assumed che name
of "Krkwood & Beach, Advertising
Agents" and issue al order to the news
papers of the country, advertising doz-
dozen or more differant names, the price
of which was always to be sent By mail to
the p o. designated. To seduce the
publishers of the country these villains
boldly referred to A. T. Steward, @. A.
Dana, and JAS Gordon Bennett, of New
York, to Ri. Halsted, of the Cincinnati
Commercial, and D. r. Locke, of the
Toledo Blade. AS their offer to the pa
peers were liberal, and their references
nnexceptionable, hundreds of papers
published their advertisements, and i'm
mediately cords of letters came to the
differant parties named, ali OF which
kirkwaod & Beach took out of the Post
Office and appropriated, of course.
AS a matter of course the newspapers
publishing the advertisements will never
get cent those who send money to
the various addresses will never get Whit
they send for in short the only people
who get anything are the ingenious
scoundrels who assume the finn name of
sKirkwood 81 Beach" When viii peo-
pie learn wisdom? When viii people
learn that dollar is a dollar. and, when
man proposes to give two dollars for
one, that he means swindle and there
is swindle under it. May impress en-
your readers this importent maxim
Never send money TO any person whom
You do not know. Is 1t medical prod
ICY? There is no physician in the great
cities who knows particle more than do
your own practitioners. Is it a piano.
watch or diamond distribution These
goods have fixed value in the market,
and if any one has them there is no
earthly use of making a sacrafce to dis
pose of them. In short, little common
sense is all that is necessary to protect
person from these swint,lers. Do. good
people, who read these lines, use little
common sense and save your money.
A CITRIoDS SOCIETY.
1t has been discovered :hat the upper
crust criminals N the tombs have organ
lied a society for mut1ial defence. BY
upper-crust | mean the big thieves. the
burglars the foreers ans. murderers. They