Omaha daily bee., 1889-09-22
lMPOSTERS ON THE ROAD.
How They Deceive the Iowa Farm
ers With Medical Remedies.
A BOGUS MEDICAL INSTITUTE.
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Officers of the Law Placed Upon Their
Track and Reward offered
For Their Arrest and H.a
$500.
Conviction.
A BOGUS MEDICAL INSTITUTE.
Beware of Them.

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dispatch was received here yesterday,
stating that parties, claiming to be leading
physicians of large medical establishment
in this city, were trying to sell notes at Ode
bolt, Ia, which they had obtained there from
farmers under the representation that they
were connected with the institution in ques-
tion. They had printed matter, circulars,
ETC., which were in imitation of those used
by the Omaha Medical and Surgical insti-
tute, of this city, and which would lead the
rnsuspecting to suppose that they had been
gotten up by that institution. Inquiry at the
institute. however, showed that the note
sellers had no connection with the institu-
ton. The proprietor stated that he had been
annoyed repeatedly by parties claiming to
hail from the Omaha Medical institute. He
accordingly telegraphed at once and notified
the police that he had offered reward for
the arrest and convection of parties claiming
TO represent him.
Later dispatches from the city marshal of
Odebolt gave clue to their identity. "A re-
porter of The BEE, following the clue, un-
earthed a number of their circulars, and dis.
covered their headquarters in this city The
former set forth that they possessed large
infrmary, located at the corner OF Fifteenth
X,
the lawyers, business men, and other occu-
pants of which will learn for the first time
through THE BEE that they reside in an in
stitutiOu of that kind. The circular also pro-
claims that they have large faculty of ply
sicians, accommodations for boarding pa
tients, etc, etc. r. 1'
In reality, they have simply couple of
cheaply furnished rooms, destitute of ap-
paratus ana facilities for doing medical busl-
ness.
The names of the proprietors of this
alleged establishment as set forth in their
circular are IL. T.. Mccoy and II. II. Ensor,
M. ID. Many complaints have reached this
city before in regard to the operations of
such parties from their victims, scattered
throughout the country A druggist ON
LeayenworJh and Seventeenth streets states
that they formerly purchased medicines of
him. but as they failed to pay what they
owed, aud caused hun trouble by their nu-
merous victims writing TO him on account of
his labels being on their bottles, he refused
To have anything more 10 do with them. The
eXpediency to which they have now resorted
shows, in the estimation of those who
know them, that they are undoubtedly pre-
pairing for a grand raid upon the farmers
OF Iowa and Nebraska, taking advantage of
the well-known reputation and extensive
advertising of Omaha's only medical estab.
lishment, and thus gulllng persons living at
distance from the city. They are also
putting themselves IN trim, it is believed,
for term IN the penitentiary, because by
representing themselves as having an insti-
tuition which they have not, or leading their
patrons to believe that they represent a per-
manent institution here. they are obtaining
money under false pretenses. They will un-
doubtedly be prosecuted, as IL is understood
a large number Of farmers have already
combined for that purpose. When last heard
from they were at Odebolt, Ia, under the
watchful care of the city marshal.
The circular Of this outfit is brazen steal
from that OF the Omaha Medical institute In
both matter and appearance, while on it is
also olazoned as manager a party boasting
the name OF McMenamy, which Is also the
name Of the proprietor of the Omaha Medi-
cal institute.