The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-10-13
BIDDING FOR A BRIDE.
WOuId.be Benedicts Duped by a
Sharp Adventures.

BUFFALO, Sept. ga peculiar case came
to light in the United States court here last
week, when Judge Foxe was called upon to
pass sentence upon Georgia Anna Cocraft
and Franklin Coon for obtaining money
fraudulently through the mails. Both
pleaded guilty. Georgia got three months
in the Erie County Penitentiary and Coon
was sent to the Binghamton Penitentiary for
four months. Georgia is a pretty, we'll
formed little woman, but Coon is Sneaky-
looking chap.
Mrs. Cocraft met Franklin Coon about
year ago somewhere in Columbia County,
where Coon was engaged in the printing
business. Mrs. Cocraft was then residing
with her husband in Providence, r. l.
Coon. agreed to desert his wife and child
ard live with the woman in Blnghamton,
N. I. There he set up a printing Office and
StauoDery-store. Here the couple cODc0cted
plan TO make some money and sent this
advertisement to several matrimonial pa
pers:
inches; weight, lao pounds; dark hair and
eyes; would like to form the acquaintance and cor
RESPOND with a gentleman from IS to 80 years OF
age. with view TO matrimoBy. Address ANNA
COON. Bin5hamton, NY.
Answers flew in thick and fast. Georgia
and Coon began a correspondence with sew
eral men on the subject of matrmony.
Pictures were exchanged with score or
more of lovers. Georgia selected Arthur
Is. Fulton OF Helena. Mont, for the first
victim, and in a letter TO him she pTofeSSed
her fondest love for him. She described
herself as being very poor and an orphan.
She told Fulton she was employed in shirt
factory, and the only objection 10 q speedy
marriage was that she had no wedding tr0us-
seau. She begged Fulton to send her enough
money to purchase suitable dress and
enough to pay her expenses to Helena, tell
ing him that she would start Immediately.
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woman that she had purchased OF pho
t0grapher for twenty-five cents. Fulton was
highly pleased, and hei readily promised to
send the money.
After some further correspondence he
sent an express order for Sl55. which Coon
and Annie divided. When Fulton wrote
aud asked his dear, darling Anna" as he
called her. why she did not come, he re-
ceived reply to the effect that she was very
Ill and could not come.
j. +. Cline of Seattle, Wash, was written
to next He fell in love with the photo
actress. Cline said he was burning with
desire to wed the beautiful Annie. He
would gladly send money enough for two
wedding outfits, and as proof OF his dev0-
ton he sent check for $500 Georgia
wrote that she would require more money,
and later the Seattle farmer sent an addi-
tional sum of $40. The most loving letters
were exchanged, and poor, ignorant Cline
did not realize that he was being worked"
He sent her money at three different times.
The postotiiee authorities at Binghamton
thought that Georgia and Coon received too
many letters and watched them. Coon and
Georgia suspected that they We're watched,
and so separated, Coon STAYING at Bingham
ton and Georgia going to Providence r. l.
When confronted with the authorities sus-
picions he made clean breast of it, but
Georgia accuses him of everything. Pitts
burg Dispatch.