The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-10
NOT AS CLAIMED TO BE.
IN ALLEGED LAND swINDLE IN
LIBERTY COUNTY.

Swiss Immigrants Attracted Through
False Representations - a Circular
that Tells Things Not as they Are
The Germans of Savannah Send an
Exposure to the German Gazsttes.
The Germans of Savannah aye stirred up
over an a legged gigantic swindle which, it
Is said, is being carried on in Liberty county
near the little town Of Fleming.
Since June l at least half dozen Swiss
emigrants, who came direct from their
homes in Switzerland to Liberty county for
the purpose of settling and going into farm
ing, have been drained of all the money that
they had, aud have been forced to appeal
for aid from the Germans Of Savannah to
carry them back home. They were attracted
to Liberty county by neatly printed cir
GUAR In the German languaga. The circular
Went on to say that Immigration was IN
vted; that the country was ricl and fertile;
people plant but did little else out hunt
and hsh until h9rvestilg TIM. Then they
gathered abundant crops of everything.
Lands were as cheap as dirt. In short,
Liberty county was paradise.
THE AUTHOR OF THE SCHEME
The party whose name was signed to these
NAiSuitA4S 10 Il NIOSb Idulll} III
Germany is one of great respectabihty TIE
fact that the circular vas from INN to
his friends in the old country, inviting hem
here, where he had found fortune, prompted
them 70 come
The first one that came over arrived here
in June. He found the young German in
Liberty ready and aitiug t. show him
vast lodges of wealth. Contracts were
thrust upo him. and he found some diff
entity n around hot
seeing the land he was about to purchase.
After being shown the land on which he
was to settle, he chose rather to remain in
the mountains of Switzerland than starve
in the lowlauds of Liberty.
FOUND THAT he WAS DUPED.
After remaining in the county few
days hoping to find some portion that was
represented in the circulars which had
brought him thitherward, he gave up all
hopes and paid the landlord, who was 10
other than the young German, q board bill
which put to shame those of the Ponce de
Leon, he started for Savannah. He arrived
here penniless, but through contributions
money enough to buy him return ticket
was raised, and he was sent back to his
native country. In the meantime the
pretty-reading circulars had gone over all
of Switzerland and twenty-five families
were preparing to come over, when tele-
gram from a prominent Swiss merchant
who had been to Liberty county stopped
them.
NOT AS THEY ARE REPRESENTED.
number of prominent Germans of this
city have been out to Liberty since the COM
plants from people who have left their
homes to come here to i've began to come,
and they found that the lands are by no
means as they were represented to be in the
circulars. They were informed that the
land referred to belongs to parties who
owns II, 600 acres in swamps and marshes.
Since the death here of Swiss who went
to that part of Liberty county few weeks
ago to purchase land, and who contracted
fever there, the feeling of indignation is
great, and they have sent communication
to the German papers denouncing the cir
culars as false, and the immigration scheme
a malicious swIndle.