The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1894-05-03
is IT A SWINDLE
soms Prominent Barnwell County Mon
Have Narrow Escape.

bOm0 HrOmlnOnC tArn"tl IL county hon
Have Narrow Escspe.
AUGUSTA, GA, April 25.-A case
that resembles the gold brick fake per.
petrated on several prominent citizens
Of Barnwell county, 5. g., 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. G, order
ing the arrest of b. G. Dillman, a
stranger, who was said to be stopping
at the restaurant opposite the Union
Depot. Closely following the telegram
Mr.. George =. Allen, cashier of the Al
leDdale Bank, Of Allendale, arrived in
the city on the Port Royal and Angus.
ia train. He Immediately went to the
police barracks where he was delight
was after. Mr.. Allen said he and a
party of his friends had been tleeced
out of 81, 400 by Dillman and his part
ner, i. w. Fischer, who had been ar
rested in Allendale, and he charged
them with cheating and swindiing.
Mr.. Allen said Dillman and Fischer
who claim to be from Kansas City,
went to Barnwell a few days ago with
gas generator (whica Lieut.. Cartlege
called money taker) for stove cook
Ing, and they we're Offering to sell the
be their patent. They exhibited papers
In substantiation Of their claim. The
generator was so simple in make and
such valuable Improvement that Edr.
j. 0. Patterson became interested in
the machine and entered in negotia.
tions for the purchase of the rights.
IIo put up 1920 bonus to make the
deal good after agreeing upon q 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 MIR.
Patterson, who induced Mr.. George
Bryan, Mr. Allen and several others to
go in with him to buy the rights, he
thinking 1t was a great money making
machine.
Monday the trade was finally closed
and the gentlemen paid Dillman and
Fischer s. 400 in cash for tho 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
found out that tho same rights that
had been sold to him and his friends
had been sold to Col. Mike Brown of
Barnwell. MIR. 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. Patterson's telegram just
as the train was about to leave on
which FISCHER was escaping.
Fischer was arrested and on his per
son was found $500 in cash and a $500
Bank. Through Fischer it was found
out that his pal, Dillman, was in Au
gusta and Mr.. Aliens telegram was re-
celVed just in time to arrest him be-
fore his departure for Chicago on the
Georgia train. At the barracks Dill.
man was searched and he had 1858 IS
IN money. Eighty dollars of 1T was in
$2O gold pieces, $67o was in five, ten
and twenty dollar bills and the other
$500 was in silver coins. He had
magnIllcent cluster diamond pin which
he wore In his shirt. In his pocket he
carried an exquisite solid gold watch
with knights Of Pythias charm at
tached to his chain.
Dillman Is q tall, stout fellow. well
dressed and smooth talker. He said
If Fischer has sold Col. Brown the pat
ent rights then he Is in tho "soup" but
he claims his part Of the transaction
was straight. Dillman volunteers to
go back to Allendale without a requisi-
tion and VIII return there this morning
with Detective howard and Mr.. Allen.
MIR. Allen is delighted that 81, 1856. .G5 of
his and his friends 81 400 has been re.
covered by the finding Of $500 on
Fischer and 1858 G5 on Dlllman.
The machine the mon had, Mr.. Allen
says. is all right and good thing, but
he thinks now that the strangers have
no patent right upon it. Lieut.. Cart.
iege thinks the men are swindlers who
have worked a skin game on the Al
lendale crowd. 1t Is not known for
what Dillman and Fischer caught Col.
Brown, but it is hardly possible that he
has 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
well have been caught by such tricks
as this. The last time the gold brick
game was worked upon them, and then
like now, the Augusta police caught
the sWindler3 for them Chronicle.