The sun., 1893-12-09
PORTRAITS OF HIS DUPES.
MRS. BRosMAN'S LoDsER COLLECTED
IBEM BY TBOUshNDS

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when us was Locked out ro- Not Psyis@
IIis Rent She Opeu-d HIs ROOM and
Found Bundiss OF photographs. Indics-
lions or the Crnyou Portrait Game,
witch Apparently wns n mig Success.
Mrs. J. r. Brosmau. who lives at 348 East
| Twelfth street, has probably the largest COLI
| lection Of photographs in the city. There are
| more than a thousand in tho collection-flre
! CAPTAINS in their togEery. babes In swaddlinR
clothes. athletes in little or almost no clothes
ut all. brides and brldegrooms taken sep
| arately or In pairs. and there is one gorgeous
group OF four bridal couples; Rrsndm others
and trick dogs. saloon keepers and minister's,
pportlug men and village high flyers. homely
girls and pretty onos diflldent couples who
are not married. and more difdebt ones re-
Gently married. None OF these is the likeness
OF any one Mrs. Brosman knows, and she
wasn't aware the pictures we're in her house
until she broke into a room and found them.
About four weeks ago Mrs. Brosman. to add
to the family income hung out a sign to the
effect that she would rent hall bedroom. She
had never rented n room before. few days
later good-looking man OF 80 years. with
large brown moustache and big brown eyes
and neatly clad called and asked for the room.
lie said he was connected with a portrait ea-
tablishment. The rrice was S1.5O n week and
he got the room. The noxt day. Wednesday,
hs called with n friend. and the two mon bus
led themselves all day Juggling in big bundles.
The man with the brown moustache seldom
came homo until late at night. II o'clock or
later, and often showed that he had been
drinking. Eyery morning he went out about
8 o'clock and always carried good-siEed
handbag. which he brought home at night.
Mrs. Brosman had few words with him. be-
cause he spoke broken English and she did
not even learn his name. He paid the rent un-
ill week ago last Tuesday. He didn't keep
his promises and on the following Friday he
was locked out Then Mrs. Brosmsn entered
his room and found the photographs
Last Monday she and q neighbor read that
scores OF people in Newark had been com plain
ing to Police Captain McManus OF that city
that they had been swtndled by n man who
eaid he was agent for an art and portrait COM
pany. 1t appeared to be the old-time crsyon
portrait swndle. which consists In giving
away almost crayon portrait and selling the
victim n very bud frame for from 50 to Sl5.
On Wednesday Mrs Brosman told the police
about her late lodEer and wrote to Capt NC
arms NANNY came Gn rer rom and pcsd
out l5O photographs sent by Newark people
whom they recngnized, feSterday ci, Capt. Nc.
Manus's station was crowded with people anx-
When n reporter examined the collection he
up In bundles. Each photograph had the name
Of tho person sending II on the back. and was
num6ered., The nhotocrap phs were completely
bundle to themselves. There were, two or
POSSIBLY three hngGred ~, from Gleysand and
brooklyn and Jersey city each scores, from
o. DstrS ond EmTs
dozens OF other places. The photographs were
Numbered UP among the the thOusSnds; in tSc.
names. nine-tenths Of the portraits belonged
e. Germans or Poles Of kindred nntlonalities.
There were very few American or Irish names.
pie had beon duped. one circular read:
Progressive Art studio, 2o3 First avenue New York
Advertisement ODER ,rayon portrait with frame free
In orisr to introduce elegant srti,tcay finished
CrayUn Portraits We Will make Noa Lite Like CraNon
or tintype Of yourself or any member your family
Ab.oiuteiy free ot Chsrso No skin no humbGs with
frame sale We MI psy 800 to s any % person who c.n
ior the rurPoso ot Ln.rodncng our portrait in your
up in position where Your customers and friends can
na s .nG yS .%S ss GT IN you
toners Fifty must be paid for incidental ex.
sa 10 With %T hn tSrg day. ,aTe
Our o. sr ma" Se
deposits n Sssry also 70 ass spsSa I arrange
Nearly all the receipts and business papers
ciTrUlaTs Of the MotrSpolitan Portrait Com
Of these receipts was signed by Charles r.
Buehn. Some Of the New Jersey complainants
cay they hold smilHr I"Seipts 4 and and others say
At 5O3 East Twelfth sire lives q Mrs Pi-
gesse; She said the two men. according to the
rented room from her for about three weeks. |
leaving with the rent partly unpaid Just before |
and Brandt. They received no mall Mt the |
house nor did they at Mrs. Brosman's hut |
auired % by BY mail and in person for the Portrait
concern. |