The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1889-06-08

net, and, as they paid cash down, there /
could be no question as 10 their solvency |
and respectability. When I say cash down.
mean in checks, with which they both
we're we'll supplied. Some of the checks
we're drawn by a we'll known bank, and the
others by one of the wealthiest widows in
New York. There was generally a
balance on the change for the check, which
che storekeepers had no hesitation in Civ
ing as the drawers of the checks were well
known to every business firm in the city.
When the checks were presented for pay
ment, every one of them was pronounced
forgery, and the detectives were put upon
the trail. A general alarm was sent out
to the police, and all the great and small
business houses were warned to look out
for the swindlers. On Friday last splen-
did equipage drove up to Tiffany's and two
magnificent and beautiful ladies alighted,
dressed in the highest style of fashion, and
fairly covered with diamonds. Instantly
all the salesmen Strengthened up, but they
passed the diamond counter without
look, and made straight for the department
wnere silverware is sold. They selected
several hundred dollars worth, and then
passed over a check in payment. As they
were leaving the store, it flashed on one
of the proprietors that possibly these might
be the swndlers. The goods were to be
delivered at the Grand Central Depot in
time for one of the afternoon expresses on
the New Haven road. The Central Office
was notified by telephone, and Inspector
Burns sent two detectives to look after
them; they ran down their game without
any trouble, and that night they slept in
prison cells. All the firms that had been
swindled by them identified them at once,
and now long term in States Prison may
release the town for short time from such
fashionable and attractive swindlers.
Brooklyn has a number of magnificent
stores, quite equal TO the Bon Marchais,
and as large. amounts of goods are con-
stantlv exposed, it is inevitable that there
should be serious losses. Two very fine
ladies were picked up in Brooklyn, but the
salesman who attempted to arrest them
would willingly have let the job out for a
very small premium. AS he laid his hand
on the shoulder of the smaller of the two
ladies, the larger one let fly her left duke,
and sent him TO grass; he instantly jumped
to his feet. groggy but smiling when the
younger shot out with her right, and for
the next two weeks his dexter optic will be
in mourning. BY this time the whole
store was reused, and the odds being
against them, they were taken 10 Police
Headquarters. Each of the women was
well provided with money, one having 1928
and the other nearly $500. Asearch of the
pair revealed good-sized dry goods store
with a number of miscellaneous articles
woman attempted to walk out of store
with large wrap under her shawl, anC
notwithstanding the fact that she wal
proven to be an accomplished shoplifter
she got off with year in the Penitentiar!
instead of five years in States Prison-be
cause she was young and pretty.
Our Presbyterian frieuds have all gon
home, and the Westminster Confession
still stands. If the spirits of the just mad
perfect haye cognizance of our doings here
the shade of John CALVIN must have fel
> jubilaIt to know that his teachings are no
discarded, and that TO save sinners yo
must make it HOT for them.
BROADBRIM.