The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-02-15
AFTER PERKINS, MONEY.
The New York Sharper Sues for his Victims
Four Hundred Dollars.

(From the New York World, Feb uary j
Papers were served on John S. Har-
riott, the property clerk of the police
department, yesterday in suit brought
by William Rogers, the 'green goods"
man who so successfully swindled Asbury
II. Perkins, the South Carolina planter,
| deacon and county commissioner, to re-
cover from the property clerk the pro-
ceeds of that swindle and SlO0 damages
besides.
Perkins, it will be remembered, came
to this city from his home in Lancaster
on January "a, with the intention OF
purchasing $4,000 worth of counterfeit
money. He was walking down Broad
way with Rogers when Detectives Nc
Closkey and AIulholland caught sight OF
the pair and tracked them to Earles
Hotel, where they separated. Next
morning Rogers returned TO the hotel
and the bargain was closed. Just as the
pair were leaving, Perkins with his bag
of ssgreen goods" ana Rogers with the
S4OO which the rustic had paid for them,
the detectives pounced upon them and
took them before Inspector Byrnes,
who, on opening the satchel, found S35
in good bills and four wads of beautiful
ight-green book paper. When Mr..
Perkins saw that he had been sold ne
was indignant, and became more so
when he was locked up as o witness
against Rogers.
The following morning the pair we're
taken to the Tcmbs, where Perkins
made complaint. Howe II Hummel
appeared for Rogers, and after one ad.
]ournment the case was dismissed, and
the gray-haired rascal, who had travelled
all the way from South Carolina to pro-
cure the means OF swindlng his con-
fding neighbors, was given a scathing
lecture on the evil of his ways by the
presiding Justice.
When Rogers was arrested ne had
S745 in his possession, and upon his be-
ing discharged S345 was returned to him
and the Police Justice Instructed the
property clerk to take charge of the
$500 which Farmer Perkins had paid
him. Perkinss lawyer made several In
efectual attempts to regain possession OF
it, and finally Farmer Perkins grew
weary and left for home without the
capital with which he had intended en-
barking in the business of passing eoun-
terfeit money. :,
1t is to recover this, together with
500 which he claims as damages caused
by Mr.. Harriott's withholding the
money, thst Rogers brings suit.
Clerk Herriott has turned the papers
over to the police commissioners, who
will hand them to Corporation Counsel
Beekman. He will make Deacon Per
kins party to the suit in order to prove
who is the rightful owner. Thus the
legal status Of s'green goods" transac-
tions may be passed upon by the higher
Courts.
Mr.. Harriott says that if the trade was
legitimate one Rogers is entitled to the
s4OO, but as Deacon Perkins paid S4OO
for SlG,0 in counterfeit bills and only
received s35 in cash and the bundles OF
paper, he claims that Perkins IS entitled
to $3.50. Mr.. Harriott adds, with much
feeling:
cit Las been the general belief that
the countryman who surrenders good
money for packages of worthless paper
is the only sufferer in the transaction.
This is mistake, as this novel suit shows
that also am sufferer"