Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-11-21
BUNK0ED A REVEREND.
Went From Buffalo to the Me tropolis to Buy Green Goods.
HE BROUGHT A AMMAN WITH HIM.

The Two Would Re ~swindIers Gave Up
 $500 For What They Supposed Was n
 Boxful of Counterfeit Money and Painted
 When They Discovered the Trick. and a layman. both citizens of this state, living in or near Buffalo called on Law yer William Travers Jerome to tell him that they had just been swindled by green goods men. from whom. as they supposed, they were buying counterfeit money.
 II will not give their names. " said Mir Jerome to Q reporter. Tho minister had received tho alluring circulars of tho green goods fakirs and came on to New York to meet the dealers in the stuff. They went to Taylor's hotel, Jersey City. where they were to meet their mysterious correspondent. but did not find him and returned to the hotel, near Canal street. at which they were staying There they were accosted by a man who told them that they were ahead of time. and that if they would return to Taylor's hotel and engage 0 room they would meet the man they were looking for.
 They did as requested and found in the room they had engaged the man who had instructed them. He told them that the business was of such a character that it could not be transacted there, and he would have to accompany them some dis tance out of town to see the old man. They were taken to Bound Brook. where, in a handsomely furnished office. they saw what they thought was counterfeit money put up in two boxes for them.
 Told to Hurry Back.
 .'They told tho green goods men that they had but Sa00 to invest. but they were finally induced to admit that they had S304 between them. Tho green goods men took the $500 in return for tho two boxes and thon told the guys to hurry back to Buffalo with their prizes and not to open the boxes until they got home. They were also enjoined to throw the stuff out of a car window if any person asked them what the boxes contained and to telephone the fact to their correspond ent who would mako good tho loss. The men said that they did not have enough to pay their fare back to Buffalo where upon tho green goods men contributed some money to their little store so that they might return to their home.
 "The minister and his friend returned to Now York and spent so much of the little money they had left that there was not enough remaining for one full faro to Buffalo. The minister had n scheme. though, that would get them out of their difficulty. He had half rate clergy
 
 gave to his friend, who agreed to go homo and telegraph enough money to get the minister back with the boxes of poodle The latter insisted on being the custodian of tho stuf.
 Could Not Get Home.
 Now, n clergyman's half rate railway pass bears his autograph signature which he has to duplicate to get his half rate transportAtion. Tho minister's friend 1. md ha taE up by tho Erie ticket agent in Jersey City, and tho friend had to return to the hotel. Tho only thing loft to do was to disobey tho injunction of tho supposed dealer in counterfeit money and open the boxes and this tho minister and his friend proceeded to do. They wont to their room in the hotel and cautiously opened one of the boxes
 With feverish haste they tore oil the paper wrappings of the packages, only ! to find that there was nothing but neat | ly cut waste paper in the box into which they would have sworn they saw good money slowed away. There must Do some horrible mistake. they felt sure. The other box certainly contained money. oven though it were counterfeit. and moro than enough to compensate them for the amount invested by them- They opened I that. Like the other. of course. its con tents consisted of packages of waste paper.
 Both men fell to tho floor in a dead faint. The noise of their fall reused the servants of the hotel. who invaded their room. A physician was summoned to at | tend the unconscious mon. This physi- elan advised them to call on me l gave them note to Inspector Mclaughlin. | asked the minister. who looked to me as though he might be a rabbi, if he had never read of the green goods game. and he sorrowfully admitted that he never | had.