The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1883-12-12
LIVING BY THEIR WITS.
zozr OF wHn METHODS ny WHICH
RANKs ARE sw1rDLHD.
A Half Hours Chat with n Dsto ctive
About Frauds win which lie is
Familiar.


particularly new. There are plenty of
old ones, though, being worked over in
new shape But what do you want to
know for 2"
"Why, the Daily Neics wishes to en-
Tighten the great American people on
how they are daily and hourly being
swindled out of their eye-teeth. Some
thing about the methods, you know, so
that if man gets swindled he may find
out how it was done"
Exactly. I see. Very good idea
But, as l said before, don't know any
really new schemes There's Billy in
side the Office there; may be he can tell
you some new dodge
Thus quoth Captain Warner, the we'll
known superintendent of the Chicago
department of the Pinkerton detective
agency as he stood at the head of the
stairs leading up into the Office.
w. A. Pinkerton familiarly known as
Billy" Pinkerton--a man who, since
the age of sixteen, has devoted his
thoughts to ferreting out the schemes of
people who live by preying on society
was found standing by the Office window
with his hat on.
Now, " said he, you've struck me at
Just the wrong time. I'm the busiest
man in Chicago. I've just sent for my
horse and buggy, and the minute it
comesr-taking out his watch and look
ing at it" I'm going out driving with
the chief of police of London. He's
here on pleasure trip"
Pleasure trip, ehl"
"Oh, yes, that's fact. It's pleasure
trip-sure!"
Well, now, if the chief of police of
London were here at this moment, what
do you suppose he would say about thisln
asked the reporter, handing Mr.. Pinker-
ton paper. Mr.. Pinkerton took it and
read it.
"Why, that's all right, said he. 'Tt's
true. I've seen it before They sent us
one. 1t refers to that gang of fellows
headed by Brockway who have been
working up in the Northwest.
The paper referred to was circular sent
out by the protective bureau of the Amer
ican bankers association, with headquar-
ters in New York, announcing that i" the
new methods of bank swindling are be-
ing contrived, as the organized efforts of
banks render dangerous the older meth
DDS of the gangs of forgers and raisers of
checks.n
eyes, said Pinkerton, this is one
way of doing it, as the circular states. A
fellow buys draft in a bank and asks
for duplicate on the ground that he is
going to send the first draft to brother
in New Mexico. Then he goes to an
other bank and does the same thing, and
finally gets up quite a series of drafts and
duplicates, which he keeps getting cashed
until things begin to grow scarry and
then he clears out. But that isn't nearly
so neat trick as that they worked over
in London, some time ago-DwyeI
and his pal, you know"
No, don't know, either. What was
itY
"WeI, take seat and I'll tell you
There were four of them, and they got
themselves introduced into the Bank o.
England. The way they did it wal
this: Two of them went to prominen
tailor and ordered q lot of clothes
which they paid for. Then one of then
said he was going over to the continen
and he had some money he wanted t
leave with the tailor until he came back
1t was $4,000 or $50, 1000. The tailo
said he didt want to take SO much ant
be responsible for it. why don't yo,
put it in the bankl' we don't know an
bankers, said they, and then it's hardl
worth while. We're not going to b
gone long, But the tailor said he'd in
troduce them So he took them in ant
introduced them to the manager ant
they opened an account-said that o.
their return from the continent the
were going into business in London
They then went and rented fine suit
of offices, to make a show of business
and bought up from the brokers som
regular paper with which after getting til
signatures of some leading concerns S
that they could forge them, they sue
ceeded in getting up quite line of cl
changes until they had established the
credit at the bank. They had got int
the bank to the extent of about 81, ,000
600, when one day in working out som
OF their bought-up paper they forgot
put iii the date, and the bank sent aroun
TO the parties whose paper it purporte
10 be, and learned that it was a forgery
Then they put the case into our hands
and when the next man came to get h
paper cashed he was held. He denieC
of course, that he was an aeeomplice-
said he knew nothing about the peOp
he was working for; he had simply al
swete1 on advertisement and gone I
wSfk for Them
=" And, by the way, that is one of the
tricks. 1t doesn't take much of ma
to lay down the paper, as they call
They can get a man like that from al
intelligence Office, and there is a go-b
tween between him and the principals,
that he very frequently has never see
them. 1t takes a shrewd man, thougl
and one well versed in business methoC
20 manage the thing"
But how did your London FRAY
come out in the endW
Well the layer-down in that ca
turned out to be an accomplice. /
said his name was Edwin Noyes, but v
discovered him TO be a notorious forg
named Edwin Moves Hill He said