The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-06-02
ANOTHER SWINDLE.
This Time a Woman Plays the
Leading Part

That one thing begets another like it was
fully exemplitiei by the publication yes
'erday morning of the particulars of the
Cameron swindle
81 see" said Officer Meyers to a reporter
Yesterday, ''tha: The BAzoo is sbosing up
SINE Of the confidence dead bea's"
"Yss," replied the scribe, chat is one of
lis holy missions"
swell, while YOU are at It / will give
you the fsc.s in another case think ought
to see print. Read this paper and will
tell you about it."
MIR. Meyers handed the reporter print
ed receipt blink filled in to read as follows:
SEDALIA, Mo-, Nay II, 1855.
Received OF Mrs. NJ Meyer 81 for one
We rs sub cription to the Ladies Fashion
book. Mrs KATIE THOMAS,
13l Jeffe son street.
"About the time o! the date of that re-
ipr," continued Mr.. Myers, "a rather
good looks &, pain bu, neatly dressed
woman OF some 80 years. ther over the
medium siz was going alb ut the city can
vasing for e Ladie,' Fashion Book She
took a large number of subscript'O ns, for
which she ceived 81 each and gave re-
ceipt similar to this, promising il the work
did not come she would see to il il address
ed or called upon ct her home
ON OR AFTER MAY FIRST
Among her subscribers, as you see, was my
wife, who paid her 81. When Nav i came
arouEd the book did not come, snd inquiry
among the neighbors 5000 showed my wife
that they had also failed to receive q copy
If the h JusehOId tire SURE 10 the shape of a
fashion monthly. As the agent had failed
% give the name or l1cat.O OF the pub
fishers, the only recourse was to hunt up
Mrs. Thomas. A few days since my wife
had Gee .si to cDme down town and
she concluded to c4ll on Mrs. Thomas.
She
VISITED No. l3l, JEFFERSON STREET,
A lady responded to her knock.
Does Mrs Thomas live here "'inGuired
my wife.
"No, man; this is Mr.. Meyers resi-
denc.," replied the lady. wont you
come inw
My wife went in and stated her business
was TO see a lady by the name of Mrs. Katie
Thomas, book agent, whom she UNDER
stood lived there.
"Do you mean Miss Katie NJ. Thomas,
who canvassed for the Ladies Fashion
OOOh! dshcu Hci hOoteooJ setInS AA'ch-
estsd.
"Thst is the work but not the name,"
said Mrs. Meyers, producing her receipt.
The lady examined it and said as she
handed it back, SWELL l guess if your
name is Meyers there is two Meyers in this
house who have been b,dly
SOLD BY THE SAME WOMAN.
have receipt | will show you," aud
going to a drawer she took out a similar
blink, filed out for the same amount and
purpose, but signej Miss Katie NJ. Thomas,
No. 100, Third sire t.' have receivei no
book" said Mrs. Meyers No. 2, ''aDd L
gu, IS the best thing We can do is to go
home, keep our own council and not let our
hu ,nds know how badly We have been
Sold"
"When I got home" continued Mr..
Meyers, "my wife told me OF the matter
and on Investigation found that the Mrs.
or Miss Thorn as, had doEe q very extensive
business in SedaIia. The police have been
hunting for her high aud low ever since
without success, ana for my own part
have offered SO reward for her arrest,
which is all can sfford, but she is among
the innumerable unknown so far as her
Sedalia victims are concerned, and doubt
not is victimizing some other community
mud the same or some other name or pre-
text"
If any body knows any thing about
Mrs Katie Thomas, Miss Katie Nj. Thomas
or the Ladies Fashion book, they Will con-
fer favor to anxious friends and sub
scribers, by addressing the BAzoo.