The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-05-25
Startling Story of Conspiracy
and Fraud.
COUNTERFEITING MUNYON'S
REMEDIES.
Two Persons in Prison and More
to Follow.
Tho Wonderful Success OF Muny on's
Improved Homeopathic Remedies
Has Induced Unscrupulous Persons
to Flood the Market With Spurious
Goods.

Providence people will be glad to learn
that a great fraud has been exposed, and
that conspiracy to flood the market with
counterfeit goods has been nipped in the
bud.
All will agree with Professor Munyon
that there is no greater crime than PALM
ing off worthless medicines on the sick
and that no punishment Is too severe for
imitators and counterfeiters.
IL seems hardly credible that there can
be found persons so mean, so selfish, and
so heartless as to engage in business to
deceive and take advantage OF suffering
humanity, yet it Is so, for no sooner is
meritorious remedy fully established, the
confidence of the people justly won. than
the country is deluged with counterfeit
aud worthless limitations. Probably no
concern has had SO many rascally imita-
tors to contend with as the Munyon
Homeopathic Remedy Company. Owing
10 the wonderful success of these reme-
dies, homeopathic 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 ad-
vertisements, almost bodily, stealing
whole pages from Munyon's "Guide to
Health,u with scarcely q change, while
mislead ana deceive the public.
For more than year Professor Mum
yon has been satisfied that his goods were
being juggled with in some fraudulent
manner. Suspected employees were dis
charged, and every measure taken to de-
tect the culprits, but 1t 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 q confederate by the name
of &. ii. Ferron, alias &. III. Fanola.
Ferron, IL seems, has been working for
more than a year in conjunction with
dishonest employees of the Munyon Com
surreptitiously 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 Munyon Rene
dies. Fortunately the Munyon Company
bad taken precaution to have the metal
cap which covers their vials stamped with
the words munyon's Homeopathic
Remedies" This the counterfeiters could
not initiate, ON account of the great ex-
pense and the unwillingness OF honest
mechanics to make a counterfeit die. As
soon as the fraud was discovered the
Munyon Company dispatched representa-
tives throughout the country and gath
cred in all the spurious goods, but Pro-
fessor Munyon advises all persons who
buy the remedies to see that the metal
cap is marked munyon's Homeopathic
Remedies" Ferron declared when ar
rested that he was led into this business
by "cutter" in the West, who could not
buy Munyon's goods direct, and who
gave him the money to buy $1,000 worth
of remedies, ostensibly to go to Mexico.
Seeing how rapidly these goods sold, and
finding some willing allies in the en-
ployes of the Munyon Company, he en-
barlSed in the bogus business. 1t seems
that one dealer in New York alone had
bought over $1,000 of these imitation
goods. Professor Munyon promises to
probe this matter 10 the bottom, and we
sincerely hope that be will be able to
bring all parties concerned in this
desploable fraud to justice.