The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-28
Startling Story Of Conspiracy
and Fraud.
COUNTERFEITlNG MUNYON's
REMEDIES.
Two Persons in Prison and More
TO Follow.
The Wonderful Success of Munyon's
improved homeopathic Remedies
Has Induced INSCRIPTIONS Per-
sons to Flood the Market with
Spurious Goods.

Salt Lake City people will be glad to
learn that a great fraud has been ex-
posed, and that q conspiracy to flood
the market with counterfeit goods has
been nipped in the tud.
All will agree with Professor AIunyon
that there is no greater crime than
I'atming off worthless medicines on the
sick and that no punishment is too Sc
we're for imftators and counterfeiters.
1t seems hardly credible that there
can be found persons SO mean. so self
ish, and so heartless as to engage in
a business to deceive and take ad-
vantage of suffering humanity, yet it
Is so, for no sooner is a merltorious
remedy fully established, the conf
dence of the people justly won, than
the country is deluged with counter
felt and worthless limitations. Probably
no concern has had so many raScally
irnitatorS to contend with as the Mum
yon homeopathic Remedy Company.
Owing to .he wonderful success of
these remedies, homeopathic medicine
companies have sprung up like mush-
rooms, under various names, each
claiming to be better than the other.
Some of these companies have dehber-
ately copied the Munyon advertise
ments, almost bodily, stealing whole
pages from Munyon's Guide to
Health" with scarcely a change, while
every cunning device mas been adopted
to mislead and deceive the public.
For more than year Professor Mum
yon has been satisfied that his goods
were being juggled with in some fraud
ulent manner. Suspected employees
were discharged, and every measure
taken to detect the culprits, but it was
not until the last month that he was
able to lay his hands upon the chief
conSDirators. He has now in prison
!. one of his former employees and con-
! federate by the name of c. n Ferron,
alias c. II. Fanola. Ferron, it seems,
has been working for more than year
/ in conjunction with dishonest en-
ployees of the Munyon Company
| Goods, labels and material were sur
repttuiously taken from the Munyon
Laboratory, pellets were bought by the
| barrel, a little alcohol was poured upon
! them and they were placed upon the
! market as the genuine Munyon Rem
edieS. Fortunately the Munyon Com
pany had taken precaution to have the
metal cap which covers their walls
stamped with the words 'AIunyon
Homeopathic Remedies This the
-courterfeiters could not initiate, on &C
count of the great expense and the I'M
| Willingness of honest mechanics to
make counterfeit die. As soon as the
fraud was discovered the Munyon Com
| pany dispatched representative
Throughout the country and gathered
| IN all the spurious goods, but PROBES
| Sor MunyOn advises all persons who
buy the remedies to see that the metal
cap rs marked Munyon's Homeopathy
ic Remedies" Ferron declared when
arrested that he was led into this bust
ness by a ''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. ostensibiy tc
go to Mexico. Seeing how rapidly these
goods sold, and finding some willing
i 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
Munyon promises to probe this matter
TO she bottom, and we sincerely hope
that he will be able to bring all parties
concerned in this despicable fraud tc
justice.