Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-02-15
Scared Green Goods Men.

NOOuS -hCH.
The green goods crooks who have
their headquarters in Jersey City and
Hoboken, flooded the West during the
Christmas holidays with green goods
circulars, offering to sell counterfeit
money that only experts could detect
at their reduced rates $1,000 worth
for $500, 5000 worth for s4o0, $4,000
for $3.50, and $4,000 for 81 ,OC0 These
circulars were of two kinds. One offers
a face-to-face interview with the boss
crook OF the green goods gang. The
other asked that the money be sent by
bank draft, and assures the sender that
the goods will be sent promptly by ex-
press packed in an iron box labelled
medicine
j. Mcintosh, a farmer of Douglas
county, Mo-, was one of thousands of
farmers who got these circulars. He
opened correspondence with the gang,
OF which man named Kellar, OF First
street, Hoboken, is the leader Kellar
promised to send 81 800 worth of coun-
lerfcits for $50 on receipt of sight
draft, and Farmer Mcintosh sent along
draft for $50 on the Bank of Ava,
Douglas county. OF course he got moth
ing in return.
He complained to his friend, farmer
]. A. Fegley, who has plenty of nerve
and some knowledge Of the world.
"I'll get your money back" said
Fesley, and he put bulldog revolver
in his pocket and started for Easton,
Pa, on New Years with another friend,
to meet George Z. Foster, one of Kel-
lars pals.
Foster is smooth-tongued customer
with gray hair aud gray beard, who
knows all about the business of pack
ing up green paper into bundles in
stead of greenbacks, even when his VIC
tim is looking right at him. Fcgley,
before he started East, had correspond
ed with Foster, saying that he wanted
some goods for himself
Foster said he would meet them at
Easton. He took Fegley and his friend
to hotel on Hackensack avenue, Wee
hawken, on January ., and, leaving
the friend at the hotel, took Fegley to
sos Willow avenue. Foster said his
address was 5l2 First street, Hoboken,
but that he had to go to the Willow
avenue place for safety. Fegley intro
duccd him to kellar and Kellar's other
pal, a man named Taylor.
Foster exhibited lot of genuine
greenbacks, and Fcgley ordered $4,000
worth. He watched Foster fix up
eight packages. They had eight gem
uinc 81 bills on top, and green paper
cut in strips the size of banknotes un-
derneath. They were done up in
bundles in rubber bands. Fegley took
them and turned over in payment for
them the receipt for $3.50 which the
Bank Of Ava gave Farmer Mcintosh
for the draft expressed to the First
street den month before ''Now I've
lletched YOU" cried Fegley, "you fool
ed my friend, but you can't fool me-"
Foster smiled a sickly smile, and Of
fered to pack the $4,000 up for Feg-
ley. Fegley let him do it, and saw the
box start by express. Then he started
for Douglas again to get more money
for investment. The express package
got to Douglas filled with the eight
packages, each with a good dollar in it..
Feglev got to Hoboken about u fort
night ago with blood in his eye, and
saw the three crooks repeatedly. They
lodged him, and then, so he says, tried
to induce him to meet them in lone
some alley with the idea of "doing him
up He says hcpaid "Senator" DAILY Of
Jersey City S25 to make them disgorge
the amount of the draft, but that Daily
didn't succeed in bringing them to
terms and gave back $15 of his fee.
Then Fegley wrote to Foster and told
him that he would make things hot.
Foster came to the conclusion that
farmer Fegley had gun about him and
meant to get square. He agreed to
meet Feglcy on Sunday and disgorge.
Fegley says he met all three of the
crooks on Sunday afternoon in the
office of lawyer Roesch, his counsel.
kellar, the boss crook, made a great
bluff, and declared he wouldn't be
done by a countryman.
He looks as if he'd do some shoot
Ing" said Foster, and finally Kellar
said that he'd pay 500 TO settle, as he
Hauu tue otuer SoUaUOut MN. tegieV
accepted the money.
He was jubilant yesterday. He came
over to New York with farmer McIn-
tosh, who had joined him at hotel in
River street a few days before. "Those
green goods fellers thought they could
fool me-" he said, "but they struck the
wrong customer. I'd a shot that feller
kellar quick as look at him if he hadn't
given up that money. They're a bad
lot, and it seems that you can't convict
them, they're so slick. They'll steer
clear of Douglas county folks after this,
though, think. N Y. Sun Of Feb. Is,
FEEL it my duty to say few words in re.
gard to Ely's Cream Balm, and l do so ca.
tlely without solicitation. l have used il
more or less half a year. and have found it to
be most admirable. have suffered from ca
tarrh of the worst kind ever since | was q
little boy and l never hoped for cure, but
Cream Balm seems to do even that. Many OF
, my acquaintapces have used it with excellent
results. Oscar 0strum, 45 Warren Ave- Chi
eago' Ill feb