The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-06
Two WOuldbe Swindlers Swindled

lopeclal 10 THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Disnatcb I
NEW YORK, Feb. 5.-Three passengers
got OH the Pennsylvania Railroad ferry
boat at Jersey City on her o,clocl, trim
yesterday. Two of them evidently were
countrymen. They were tall and broad
snouldered- Both wore beard and one
VI them carried satchel. The third was
snort man neatly dressed. He walked
between the other two. In the ferry house
the mar with satchel stepped into a side
room The little man stopped anc talked
Win ms companion They stood there q
minute and then there came a short from
the side room where the man with the
satchel had gone. s'Swindled. nv cs,aclxv- ;;
ne yelled The little man made dive ar
Cle satcnel twenty-five feet away and the
man to whom he had been talking whinned
out revolver and fired at him. The IittIe
man 1eH on his face and the man with a
revolver ran within ten feet of him and
den0erately pointed the revolver AFT his
head and pulled the trigger The
weapon missed fire. Then the little
man jumped up and slipped away
IN the crowd. The man who had oone in+o
the side room with the satchel came ont
with two disarranged square bundles in
MS hands. ''They have done us, john he
sad Put up your gum Policeman
Rlchard Reed and Detective Dalton heard
tne shot and ran into the depot and arrested
the man with the revolver 1--WE was
SSWLhuled, by gosh" said the prisoner. "and
| snot to kill" He was taken TO noIice
Headquarters and the man with tbe
bundles followed. They both went before
the chief of police MY name is .John II
Holcomb, and I'm the postmaster of MaIoa
jackson county, Kentucky said the man
WIFI the revolver. ''This man here -
b bUo4tIng 10 ms companion, sis my
3rother Lew and we have been swindled
On see 1t was this way he Continued
My brother and got letter from . feI.
low named Wilson who said he had a stock
Oh good money to sell at discount for cash
he guaranteed 1t would go down orr vay-
anu we opened up a correspondence with
MN oy telegraph. Finally we decided to
come on and get sample of his goods. The
I NTd y1 met us at the depot and took US to
New ork some where to a room. Oh. thew
nao stack OF good money there. There
must have been million dollars of II
w men we got through looking at if thew
pulled out box full of gold S2O's Tbey
were good, know, cause L held them
w ell; talked 1t over with Lew and we
1t9ogught 500 worth. We got $4,000 in bills.
We wasn't going to let them get the hest Of
is, so we told them we did not know the
way 10 the ferry, and wanted one of them
70 go with US. L gave the little fellow
ABOUT i've dollars for showing us the, vav
Wy Drotner stepped off to room to look at
he goods" 0A @'
:, Il wish you had killed him. said the
,nlei, ana Inen the two brothers looked
gratitied. That look vanished whom tbo
,nlef added, give would have hangedsvou
men and the country would have been rid
u Two swindlers." The chief examined
ne bundles that the post masters brother
la1 brought with him. There was a 81 hin
each bundle on top and the rest of the
'acAage was made up of closely packed
aWuust. Inc brothers watched the ex
nooter was locked up for discharging fire
rms.