San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-05-31
Startling Story of COnspira-
cy and Fraud.
CONTEMPLATING NUN
YON'S REMEDIES.
TWO PERSONS IN PRISON AND MORE
TO FOLLOW.
The Wonderful Success of Munyon's In
proved Homeopathic Remedies Has In
duced Inscriptions Persons to
Flood the Markets With
Spurious Goods.

spurious GOOuS'
San Antonio people will be glad
to learn that a great fraud has
been exposed, and that a conspirs-
cy to flood the market with coun-
terfeit goods has been nipped in
the bud.
All will agree with Professor
Munyon that there is no greater
crime than palming off worthless
medicines on the sick and that no
punishment is too severe for imi-
tators and counterfeiters.
1t seems hardly credible that
there can be found persons so
mean, so selfish, and so heartless
as to engage in business to de-
ceive and take advantage of suffer-
ing humanity, yet it is so, for no
sooner Is a meritorious remedy full
ly established, the confidence Of the
people justly won, than the country
is deluged with counterfeit and
worthless limitations. Probably
no concern has had so many ras-
cslly imitators to contend with as
the Munyon Homeopathic Remedy
company. Owing to the wonderful
success of these remedies, homeo-
pathic medicine companies have
sprung up like mushrooms, under
various names, each claiming to
be better than the other. Some Of
these companies have deliberately
copied the Munyon advertisements,
almost bodily, stealing whole
pages from Munyon's "Guide to
HEALTH" with scarcely change,
while every cunning device has
been adopted to mislead and de-
ceive the public.
For more than a year Professor
Munyon has been satisfied that his
goods were being juggled with In
some fraudulent manner. Suspect
ed employees were discharged, and
every measure taken to detect the
culprits, but 1t was not until the
last month that he was able to lay
his hands upon the chief con-
spirators. He has now in prison
one of his former employees and q
confederate by the name OF Q. IL.
Ferron. Ferron, 1t seems, has
been working for more than q year
in conjunction with dishonest en-
ployes of the Munyon company.
Goods, labels and material were sur
reptitiously taken from the Nun.
yon Laboratory, pellets were bought
by the barrel, q little alcohol was
poured upon them and they were
placed upon the market as the
genuine Munyon Remedies. For
tunately the Munyon company
had taken precaution to have
the metal cap which covers
their walls stamped with the
words Munyon's Homeopathic
Remedies" This the counterfeit
ers could not initiate, on account
OF the great expense and the I'M
willingness Of honest mechanics
to make a counterfeit die. As soon
as the fraud was discovered the
Munyon company dispatched rep.
resentstives throughout the coun-
try and gathered in all the spuri-
GUS goods, but Professor Munyon
advises all persons who buy the
remedies to see that the metal cap
is marked Munyon's Hom9o-
pathic Remedies" Ferron declar-
ed when arrested that he was led
into this business by "cutter" in
the west, who could not
buy Munyon's goods d.
rect and who gave him
the money to buy $4,000 worth Of
remedies, ostensibly to go to Mex
leo. Seeing how rapidly these
goods sold, and finding some will
ling allies in the employees Of the
Munyon company he embarked
In the bogus business. 1t seems
that one dealer in New York alone
had bought over $1,000 Of these
imitation goods. Professor Mum
yon promises to probe this matter
to the bottom, and we sincerely
hope that he will be able to bring
all parties concerned in this despic-
able fraud to justice.