The San Francisco call., 1896-06-17
BEHIND PRISON BARS,
Startling Story of Conspiracy
and Fraud.
COUNTERFEITING MUNYON'S S
REMEDIES.
Two Persons in Prison and
More to Follow.
The Wonderful Success OF Mum
yon's Improved homeopathic
Remedies Has Induced Unscru-
pulous Persons to Flood the Mar
ket With Spurious Goods.

San Francisco people will be glad to learn that
great fraud has been exposed, ara that con-
spiracy to food the market with nterfeit goods
has been nipped in the bud.
All will agree with Professor Mun%on that there
is no greater crime than palmng off worthless
medicines the sick and that no punishment is
too severe fo- imitators and counterfaiters.
1t seems hardly credible that there can be found
persons so mean, so selfish, and neartless as to
engage in a business to deceive and take advan-
tage of suffering humanity, yet it is so, for no
sooner is a meritorious remedy fully established,
the confidence of the people justly 2von, han the
country is deuged with counterfeit and worthless
limitations. Probably no concern haa had so many
rascally imitators to contend with es the Munyon
Homeopathic Remedy Company. owing to the
wonderful success of these remedies, homoeo-
pathic medicine companies have sprung up like
mushroom under various names each claiming
to be better than the other. Some of these
panes have deliberately copied the Munyon ad-
vertisements, almost bodily, stealing whole pages
from Munyon's "Gude to Health" with scarcely
a change while every cunning device has been
adopted to mslead and deceive the public.
For more than year Professor Munyon has
been satisfied that his goods were being juggled
with in some fraudulent manner. Suspected en-
ployes were discharged, and every measure taken
detect the cuprits but il was not until the last
month that he was able to lay his hands upon the
chief conspirators. He has now in prison one of
his former employees and a confederate by the
name of G. Il. Ferron alias c. II. Fanola. Ferron,
it seems, has been working for more than year
in conjunction with dishonest employees of the
Muny on Company. Goods, labels and material
we're surreptiiously taken from the Munyon
Laboratory, pellets were bought by the barrel,
little alcohol was poured upon them and they were
placed upon the market as the genuine Muuyon
Remedies Fortunately the Munyon Company
had taken precaution to have the m etal cap which
covers their walls stamped with the words Mum
yon,s Homeopathic Remedies" This the counter
feiters could not initiate, account of the great
expense and the unwilingness of honest me-
chanics to maze counterfeit die. AS the
fraud was discovered the Munyon Company dis
patched representatives throughout the country
and gathered in all the spurious goods but Pro-
fessor Munyon advises ali persons who buy the
remedies to see that the metal cap is marked
''Munyons Homeopathic Remedies" Ferron
business by "cuTter" in the West, who could not
money TO buy $4,000 worth of remedies ostensi-
bly, to go to Mexico. Seeing how rapidly these
goods sold and finding some willing allies in the
employees Of the Munyon Company he embarked
in the bogus business. It seems that dealer in
New York alone had bought over $1,000 of these
imitation goods. Professor Munyon promises to
probe this matter to the bottom, and sincerely
hope that he will be able to bring all parties con-
cerned in this despicable fraud to Justice There
is drug firm in San Francisco putting up lint-
ment claiming to be Munyon's, but which the
Munyon Company has nothing to do with. All
Munyon's goods bear trademark. See that the
name is spelled Munyon's.