The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-08-28
NYE AS A DETECTIVE.
He Is Not a Success at the Sleuth
Business.
An Experiment in Natural History Worth
Trying-Making Japanese Lanterns
Ont Of loads.
Lconrrirht. lsqa. hy Edrar ". Nye.l

Copyright lSyS by Edgar W. Nye.1
BUCK SHOALS, N. c.. Aug. 24.-Quite q
number Of people have written me recently
regarding green goods episode which was
made public in July by st. Louis paper,
and which involved the name of Mr.. P. A.
Owenhy of this state 1t seems that the
following announcement caught Mr.. Owen
by's eye some time ago. Il was prin ted in
well known paper and evidently in good
faith. No paper could have printed such
an advertisement otherwise, it seems to
me:
c. G. MONEY-si0O for So or $50 or S.
Pigs. in 500 and $50 lots. Good agents wanted
for rare goods Parties cents.
Mr. Owenby wrote for some of the c.
@. money with pure heart, and hoping
to relieve the distress OF some man who
needed $40 SO badly that he was willing to
give 500 for it. Knowing how close money
matters are at times on Wall street and
what high rate of interest parties on the
stock exchange are willing to pay for short
loans on personal security, Mr.. Owenby no
doubt would have been perfectly justified
in stepping in and relieving distress in that
way.
Soon after he read in the ST Louis paper
that his letter had been printed, and that
the public had been left TO surmise that
MIR. Owenby wished TO take advantage OF
the financial depression and get an ex-
orbitant rate Of interest on his $l0
Strangers have impugned Mr.. Owenby's
motives. and he does not know what TO do
for 1t. AS resident OF this state am
glad to come forward with a simple ex-
PLANTATION regarding the matter, and insert
here q letter he sent to the Citizen OF Ashe-
vile, showing how it happened. Those
who know Mr.. Owenby here in North
Carolina say that IL he had received the
money be would have relieved distress
with it; but the parties TO whom he wrote
were arrested by the police and treated
shamefully.
Yes, wrote just as the St. Louis Globe Demo
crGt had it, but not for the purpose they sup
posed Several weeks ago Mrs. Owenby read
the ad. inclose, and we had up bet as to
What it was; 10 decide IL OF course wo wrote on
TO them.
When found they had counterfeit money L
determined TO get sample and sli the proof
necessary and turn them over 10 the proper
authorities.
They premeditated trouble by my holiness in
sending billhead OF my business and had not
sent the sample they promised Then was
certain OF their fraudulent business, and wrote
them the letter referred to in the st. Louis
papers.
case and arrested them in a day or two after
this LEVER reached them.
did not want their goods, but should have
liked the arnou II Uncle Sam would have given
me had not been too late in bringing them TO
10 justice. Z. A OWENBY.
l hope this viii silence every criticism
regarding Mr.. Owenby, for he says that
these men 'spremeditated trouble and did
not send him the goods" 1 feel certain
that had Mr.. Owenby received the goods
he would have gone on and arrested the
parties at once. paying his travelling ex-
penses of course out of the money so re-
ceived.
But these men who advertise to give 500
for SIC do not do as they agree. At least
that is my experience. / have answered
two or three of their ads, intended to go
on TO New York and arrest them as soon
as got the money from them, SO that |
would not have to make.the Journey at my
own expense, but l have yet to deal with
one of them who could be regarded as
man of integrity.
Swindlers are common everywhere, and
/ find that / get along very poorly in the
sleuth business My purse was taken in
New York one day on the street, but the
hend in human form was richly punished
for his wickedness. All that the purse con-
tanned was a postofice money order that /
had tried for six weeks TO get the money
on, but being stranger in New York and
the cashier at the postofice being also
stranger in the city, the men who knew
me and came there 70 identify me were
strangers 10 the cashier, as we moved in a
different set and were both very little
known in trade circles. his friends being
men who were trying TO live on their salar
les in the postoffice department, and mine
consisting of 3 widow lady in moderate cir
cumstances. who let me small hall bed
room at the time. So the thief got the
worst Of it. If he got the money on the
order il was more than l could do.