Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1894-03-03
GREEN GOODS yICTEgs.


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are CrAuinals at Heart.
Chief Drmmgnd of the treasury
department. secret service is an ex-
cellent officer and his latest annual re-
port records evidence Of pleasing activ-
ity, says the Washington Star, bat the
document betrays a weakness with
| which there viii be little, If any, pub
lie sympathy Pathetically the Chief
calls attention to- his inability to move
against those men whose wits are eX-
ercised in green goods" swindling
| The officially referred to rs swindlers
. villains, rascals, rogueS, robbers, ruin
workers, and human vultureS, although
they do nothing worse than deceive
men and women who are quite rs Grim
inal 4 their intent as are the tempters.
The victims over whose losses so many
tears ara shed plan to purchase what
/ they believe is counterfeit money.
which, of course, they expect to cir
cuLatc with tremendous profit to them
selves and corresponding loss to limo
cent fellow beings; at the outset Of
LlltlI tllltdAbE 10 utlleNltA tltN al
themselves robbed of the capital they
so foolisl1ly invested and because other
+ thieves are smarter than they the pO-
/ lice are frequently called upon to inter
ferc. One amateur rascal whose home
was in Juniata, Neb., writes to the
i secret service.
Yours received and l viii leave off
all prellminari2s and tell You all
straight and honestly, inclosed you
Will find a copy of a letter I received
and 50 / answered it, done just as the
instructions say and / went down 70
New York City and met the agent and
he took me 30 the head man and
there l seen the goods a they call
it and | picked out the amount
I wanted to buy which was $4,000,
/ for which | paid $1,000 in New York
/ drafts and the agent went to the ex-
press office and there I sent or intend
ed to send it to my address, but the
/ sc9undrels changed boxes on me aud
I when | got home and received the box
/ it had nothing in but blank paper
/ Another of these miscalled 'unfOrtu-
Mates sent to the Treasury Depart
: ment from Easton n. H., the fol
lowing appeal
Il have been swindled cat Of )
hundred and 20 dollars by those Green,
( goods men Of New York and I have
been there twice and seen them in
BrOadeday light and / should know
them again as l HASN'T sufficient money
now 70 look them up with / take this
course hoping you will try assist me
70 base them taken and punished TO the
full Extent of the Law, if you could
! see my papers and hear what base
! been through then you could Judge
what best to do l am Strtsing and Hop
ing n him who is greater them all
that / may hear from you soon and
5hat we may bring them to Justice
yours in Haste
Plain people, who have common,
everyday ideas about honesty, viii no.
share in the indignation expressed by
the somewhat nliterate gentleman
from New Hampshire, who, having
failed In his effort to be a successful
rascal, prays - the Supreme Beng
that confusion and great discontinue
may fall upon his constituencies asso-
iates The man who starts out e
accumulate wealth by passing counter
I felt money IS every whit as bad as
the smooth operator who robs the va
sophisticated criminal So long as me
( green goods" men confne themselves
exclusively to the business Of stali
I ing from more c0wardly thieves th-
/ honest man has little reason for col-
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