Birmingham state herald., 1896-01-15
OZARK.
Officers F'lected-The Old Man Would Have
 None of It-A Swindle.

Officers Flected-The Old Man Would Have
 None of fIt-A Swindle.
 Ozark, Jan. 4.-(Special.)- At a recent
 meeting of the Dale County Medical so-
 ciety the following officers were elected:
 William c. Stegall, president; W. k. | Belcher, vice-president; k. F. Harper, | secretary and treasurer; k. F. Harper, | w. E. Sanders, J. w. Reynolds, F. B. Ard, R. D. Blackshear board of ceiisors. A few days since Judge Morris issued | q marriage license to MT. J. s. Hughes | and Miss Chadwick, who lived in the l southwestern portion of the county. | When Mir. Hughes presented himself at | the house of his bride-to-be he was met
 at the front gate by the irate father, who stubbornly refused to allow them to mar ry or to allow him to speak to the girl.
 He went home, packed his grip, returned
 the license to the judge of probate and
 boarded the first train for Texas, where he will live in the future.
 Up to this writing there are only two
 barrooms in Dale county. License has been issued to MT. Day at Ariosta and to MT. Doherty at Pinckard.
 A. T. Borders, Esq, has returned from Atlanta.
 Mr. J. W. Pippin is quite sick.
 Your correspondent has just learned of | a gigantic swindle which has been going | on in and around Enterprise, in Coffee county. It seems that company was
 organized for the purpose of buying | green goods" One man was to do the manipulating, but was to divide spells | with the balance of the company for their | influence. They would go to a man whom they knew had or could procure
 the money and propose to him to let them try $10 and that they would return him two for one as soon as they could go off and make the deal Tn nearly every l instance their game worked and they succeeded in getting his $10; and if they | thought the prospects good to get money | from him again they would return him | two for one. They ran this kind of | game on them until they thought the | time had come to make big deal. They | then went around to all whom they had | paid two for one and stated the facts to | them. telling them that they were ar
 ranging for big deal and wanted all
 the money they could raise. They sue l ceeded handsomely. in many instances | getting as high as s400 and $500 from single victim Tn all. they collected up 1 several thousand dollars. One of the | parties who had invested considerable
 cash with them decided that he had bet
 ter go along with them and see that the | deal was made fairly. as he was some
 what suspicious. They came to Ozark
 and boarded the train for Montgomery, | where they said the deal was to be made. | Upon their arrival there the leader of | the gang Insisted that the rest of the l party remain al the nOtel ana allow nlm
 to go alone to have the transa ction with | the green goods" man, as he would only | admit one at a time in the room. This | they consented to do and the maniDulator went his way rejoicing. After being ab- | sent for about a couple of hours he re- l turned to the hotel with his clothes torn | and with tears in his eyes told those who
 were anxiousy awaiting his return that | he had been robbed by the green goods'' l man and that all of the money was 1 gone. The crowd that accompanied him | left immediately for Ozark and proceeded | to their homes in Coffee county. The l leader of the gang. who was robbed. went
 in another direction with his pockets l filled with boodle.
 These swinders would accept nothing | but gold from the people who wanted to l put in and the consequence is that the | gold supply in that region of the country | is in a worse condition. if possible, than | the gold reserve in the national treasury. | These fellows could give J. Pierpont some | pointers. Tho grand jury when it as- l sembles will investigate the whole affair.