The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-09-02

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needed 80 SO badly that he was willing
to give 800 for 1t. Knowing how
close money matters are at times on
! Wall street and what o high rate Of
interest parties on the Stock exchange
are willing to pay for short loans on per-
sonal security, Mr.. Owenby no doubt
would have been perfectly justified in
stepping in and relieving distress in that
way.
| But the letter written by Mr.. Owenby,
Of this state. was received by officers Of
the law, as l understand it, and Mr..
| Owenby's motives were impugned. He
did not know this till one day in July,
when he happened to be looking over his
motives and saw something peculiar
about them.
Soon after he read in the st. Louis
paper that his letter had been printed,
and that the public had been left to
sur1nise that Mr.. Owenby wished to
take advantage Of the financial depres-
sion and get an exOrbitant rate Of in
terest on his ten dollars
Strangers have impugned Mr.. Owen
by's motives, and he does not know what
| to do for it. AS a resident of this state
am glad to come forward with sim
| pie explanation regarding the matter
| and insert here q letter he sent to The
| Citizen, Of Asheville, showing how it
happened. Those who know Mr.. Owen
by here in North Carolina say that If he
had received the money he would have
relieved distress with it; but the parties
| to whom he wrote were arrested by the
police 0nd treated shamefully.
Mr.. Owenby's letter fell into the OFF,
GERS hands among others, and was print
ed. He wishes this plain statement
made to show that his motives were IN
good order when he wrote the letter:
Yes, / wrote Just as the st. Louis Globe
Democrat had ii, but not for the purpose they
supposed. Several weeks ago Mrs. Owenby
read the ad. inclose, and we had mp q bet as
to what Il wasS 70 decide 1t of course We wrote
on to them.
When found they had counterfeit money
determined to get a sample and all the proof
necessary and turn them over 10 the proper
authorities.
They premeditated trouble by my holiness
in sending q billhead Of my business, and bad
not sent the sample they promised. Then !
was certain of their fraudulent business, and
wrote them the letter referred 20 In the 81
Louis papers
was too late, as others had worked up their
case and arrested them In a day or two after
this letter reached them.
] did not want their goods, but should have
liked the amount Uncle Sam would have given
me bad not been too late in bringing them TO
justice. p. A. OwENBY.
hope this will silence every criticism
regarding Mr.. Owenby, for he says that
these men "premeditated trouble and
did not send him the goods" feel Ger
tain that had Mr.. Owenby received the
goods he would have gone on and ar-
rested the parties at once, paying his
travelling expenses of course out OF the
money so received.
But these lnen who advertise to give
800 for $40 do not do as they agree.
At least that is my experience. l have
answered two or three of their ads, In
tending to go on TO New York and ar
rest them as soon as l got the money
from them, so that would not have to
make the journey at my own expense,
but have yet to deal with one Of them
who could be regarded as a man of in
tegrity.
Swtndles 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 fiend in human form was
richly punished for his wickednese. All
that the purse contained was a postof-
fee money order that had tried for six
weeks to get the money on, but being a
stranger in New York, and the cashier
at the postofhce being also stranger In
the city, the men who knew me and came
there to identify me were strangers to the
cashier, as we moved In a different Get
and were both very little known in trade
circles, his friends being men who were
trying to live on their salaries in the
postofice department, and mine consist
ing Of o 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 1t was more than could do.
Quite fraud has been unearthed in st.
Paul In the past summer by the timely
report OF Scandinavian, who wrote the
following letter to the mayor and thus
brought the parties to justice. 1t Is a
curiosity to those who have made study
of the Scandinavian dialect:
DEAR STR am wondering II you have any
naledgee OF that satse svindling Is going on on
Savent ST., and viii now tally You voth 1t is.
Thar Is som dad bit THAI have gat colored
man in q kedRe, and sho hem for mony. Shargs
Is cents for admission and than tri to max peo- |
pie blive the have cauGth hem In AFisOna, a
Wild man
do not blIve In such ROBBERY from por peO-
pei, that don't now Of any batter and 20 go In |
thar and pay fifteen cent for 10 q negro that |
is as tam ss the rast. DoYou blive IL Is rigth |
to lat than DO So like sport bout like to Sc |
It In q far play. Your Braind for Aver.
Very few people here would pay If
teen cents to see negro ''that Is Os tam |
as the rast."
Politics Is active here. Much talk Is |
heard regarding the late congress. Hero
in North Carolina and elsewhere the |
opinion prevails that congress- has had |
too many men In 1t who have been 90 |
busy watching the "home paper" that |
they have had no time to devote to leg1s- |
lation, and thus they claim Incidence
and timidity have been the chief char
acteristics Of the session
In 1879 Gabe Bouck, Of Wisconsin,
was seen pacing up and down the foyer,
OF whatever 1t Is called, which surrounds
the desk where the primary department.
Of congress sits. BE ives 2 member Of
the house, and seemed to have stepped
out into the entry to swear little over
the, arrears Of pensions bin, which was
evidently about to pass. IA set Of
d--d cowards-con3emptibls, d
coTardAl" ~ VA heard b s3aeuanss
"a A,SA aSsae