Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-01-29
A GREEN GOODS MAN CONVICTED.
The Result of Work Done by Inspector Rath.
bone and His Associates.

bone and His Associates.
Charles Manzocki, alias Chas. Morton, alias
H. Bowling a Son. alias Axworthy a Co., and
many other aliases, an alleged dealer in green
goods" who has been on trial for the past four
days in the court in New York city, was found
guilty yesterday. The jury deliberated only
ten minutes. Manzocki is the green goods
man who sent Mr.. Russell b. Harrison the
''green goods" circular and whose arrest was
caused by Chief Inspector Rathbone Of the
Post Office Department. When the raid. was
made on Manzockis den at 4s4 Pearl street,
New York, by Post Office Inspectors Jacobs,
Hartshorne and Morris in August last they Sc
cured wagon load Of green goods" circulars,
envelopes. cyclostyie presses and mercantile
reference books. from which latter Manzocki
obtained the names Of the people to whom he
sent his circulars.
In addition to the above the inspectors cap
tured at Manzocki's apartments a complete
opium layout The den was in an apartment
house and furnished in q luxuriant man
ner-blue velvet upholstered furniture, lace
curtains magnificent carpets and rugs, and
everything denoted that Manzoch WAS in pros-
porous circumstances.
New York is the headquarters of many "grsen
goods" gangs and at present one band Ia flood
ing Maryland with their literature.
The swindlers have no counterfeit mouey -
''green good" as they call il to sell.
IL any one is foolish enough to answer one Of
their circulars the writer receives i'm return Q
second circular inclosing instructions where TO
come and get the green goods" There lie also
inclosed in this second letter a sample Of what
purports 70 be counterfeit money, but is really
q genuine q bill. The would-be buyer comes
to New York or some town in New Jersey near
New York and IL met by an agent OF the
''green goods" dealer. This agent IL known a.
o ''trailer" among green goods" people, and
his duty il to ''steer" the dupe 70 New York,
when he is taken 10 q secluded place and shown
5000 to e5,000 in good money. He IL told
that for $500 he can have q, 900 Of the green
goods" II he concludes to buy the $4,000 u
packed in small black satchel in his presence
and he hands over his S300.
( Just at this moment some one ratfles ths
handle of the door, whereupon the green
goods dealer takes the satchel containing the
q, 900 and places il ON top Of m innocelt-look-
ing desk; he then goes 10 the door, TO which the
attention Of the dupe is directed, and while the
dupe's back Is toward the desk q panel opens
and the s., 900 satchel slips through a partition
and dummy satchel filed with sawduss OF Ga
shoes ID substituted in its place.
The change is made 70 rapidly by confeder-
ate concealed In an adjoining room that the
dupe don't know that he has ''sawdust" or cola
shoes" until he reaches home, for he 10 sdmon-
ished by the swindlers not TO open the satchel
under any consideration until be arrives safs
and sound In his own house where no one O.
rob him. 80
The Following. the post ONCE inspector ~,
are addresses nov being used BY the svindlers:
Fiushins, NY; Henry w. Brooks, D.risa,
Conn, and many other names ct Lintner snd
Hammond, Ill, Natawnn end Hoboken- n. J.,
are used by the sharpen Manxocd VII -
sentenced next week