The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1894-05-02
is IT A SWiNCL6?
Some Prominent Barnwsl! County Men
Havs Narrow Escape,

Hav5 a Narrow Escape,
AUGUSTA, GA, April 25.-A case
that resembles the gold brick fake per
petrated On several prominent citizens
Of BarnWell county, s. c., has been de-
veloped and one Of the men in the
game who got the money was arrested
in Augusta at midnight last night by
Detectives Howard and Murray. Late
yesterday evening the police received a
telegram from Allendale, S. c., order
ing the arrest Of B. c. Dll!man, a
stranger, VINO was said 10 be stopping
at the restaurant opposite the Union
Depot. Closely following the telegram
Mr.. George p. Allen, cashier of the Al
lepdsle Bank, of Allendale, arrived II
the city On the Port Royal and Angus
ia train. He Immediately went to the
police barracks where he was delight
ed to find tie man there in custody he
was after. Mr.. Allen said he aud a
party of his friends had been fieeced
out of 81 400 by Dillman and his part
ner, F. w. Fischer, who had been ar
rested in Allendale, aud he charged
them with cheating aud sWin0ilng.
Mr.. Allen said Dillman and Fischer
who claim to be from Kansas City,
went to Barnwesl few days ago with
a gas generator (Which Lieut.. Cartlege
called money taker) f)r stove cook-
ing, and they were offering to sell the
State rights, claiming the generator to
be their patent. They exhibited papers
in substantiation Of their claim. The
generator was 50 simple in make and
such valuable Improvement that Mr.
J. 0. Patterson became interested in
the machine and entered in negotia.
tions for the purchase of the rights.
He put up q $500 bonus to make the
deal good after agreeing upon a trade
and on Monday went over to Allendale
to get some of his friends interested
with him in the scheme. Dillman and
Fischer went to Allendale with Mr..
Patterson, who induced Mr.. George
Bryan, Mr. Allen and several others to
60 in with him to buy the rights, he
thinking it was great money making
machine.
Moaday the trade was finally closed
and the gentlemen paid Dillman and
Fischer S1,400 IN cash for the, State
rights. Dlllman left at once and came
to Augusta. Fischer remained in Al
lendale to sign up the papers. Mr.,
Patterson returned to his home in
Barnweil and upon his arrival there
found out that the same rights that
had been sold to him and his friends
had been sold to Col. Mike Brown OF
BarnweIl. Mr.. Patterson at once tele-
graphed his discovery to Mr.. Allen in
Allendale, telling him he had seen the
deed given to Col. Brown. Mr.. Allen
received Mr.. Pattersou's telegram just
as the train was about to leave on
which Fischer was escaping.
Fischer was arrested and on his per.
on was found $500 10 cash and a $500
draft on the New York National Park
Bank. Through Fischer it was found
cut that his pal, Dillmap, was IN Au
gusta and MIR. Aliens telegram was re.
ceiYed just in time to arrest him be-
fore his departure for Chicago on the
Georgia train. At the barracks Dill
man q as searched and he had S6SS 63
in money. Eighty dollars Of 1t was in
$50 gold pieces, S515 was ii five, ten
and twenty dollar bills aDd the other
$3.50 was il silver coins. He had a
magnificent cluster diamond pm which
be wore in his shirt. In his pocket he
carried An exquisite solid gold watch
with Knights of Pythias charm at
tached to his chain.
DLlman is tall, stout fellow, well
dressed and smooth talker. He said
If Fischer has sold Col. Brown the pat
ent rights then he is in the soup" but
he claims his part Of the transaction
was straight. Dillman volunteers to
90 back to Allendale without reQuisl-
ton and viii return there this morning
with Dstective Howard and Mr.. Allen.
Eir. Allen is delighted that 1888 Is of
his and his friends S1,4OO has been re-
covered by the finding Of $500. on
Fischer anG S698 G5 on Dillman.
The machine the men had, Mr.. Allen
says. is eli right and good thing, but
he thinks now that the Strangers nave
40 patent right upon i5. Lieut.. Cart
lege thinks the men are sWindler5 who
have sTorked q skin game Oh the AL
lendale crowd. It is not known for
what Dillmsp and Fischer caught Col.
Brown, but it is hardly possible that he
E IS escaped without loss, for he has
the deed to the patent right which he
holds. This is the second time in the
last few years that the people Of Barn
We'll nave been caught by such tricks
as this. The last time the gold brick
game was worked upon them, and then
like COW, the Augusta police caught
the swindlers for tnem.-Chronicle.