The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-05-27
BEHIND PRISON BARS
Startling Story of Conspiracy
and Fraud.
CONTRIBUTING MU N
YON'S REMEDIES.
Two Persons in Prison and More
to Follow.
The Wonderful Success of Munyon's I'm
proved Homeopathic Remedies has
Induced INSCRIPTIONS Persons to Flood
the Market With Spurious Goods.

Wichita people will be glad to learn
that a great fraud has been exposed,
and that conspiracy to flood the mar
ket with counterfeit goods has been
nipped in the bud.
All will agree with Professor Nun
yon that there is no greater crime than
painting off worthless medicines on the
sick and that no punishment Is too Sc
we're for fmitators and counterfeiters.
It seems hardly credible that there
can be found persons so mean, so sell
fish, and so heartless as to engage in a
business to deceive and take advantage
of suffering humanity, yet II Is so, for
no sooner is meritorious remedy fully
established, the confidence Of the people
justly won, than the country is deluged
with counterfeit and worthless imita-
tons. Probably no concern has had
so many rascaily imitators TO contend
with as the Munyon homeopathic
Remedy Company. Owing to the won
derful success of these remedies, homoe-
opat THO medicine companies have
sprung up like mushrooms, under vari-
Gus names, each claiming 10 be better
than the other Some of these compan-
les have deliberately copied the Munyon
advertisements, almost bodily. stealing
whole pages from Munyon's Guide to
Health" with scarcely a change, while
every cunning device has been adopted
to mislead and deceive the public.
For more than a year Professor Nun
yon has been satisfied that his goods
were being juggled with in some fraudu-
lent manner. Suspected employees
were discharged, and every measure ia
ken 70 detect the culprits, but it 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 con-
federate by the name of c. H. Ferron,
alias c. H. Fanola. Ferron, 1t seems
has been working for more than a year
in conjunction with dishonest employees
of the Munyon Company. Goods, Ia
bells and materials were suTreptitiously
taken from the Munyon laboratory, pei
let's were bought by the barrel, little
alcohol was poured upon them and they
were placed upon the market as the
genuine Munyon Remedies. Fortunate
ly the Munyon Company had taken pre-
caution to have the metal cap which
CONtFS lHtlT NldlS SldUpeu Will the
words Munyon's homeopathic Rene
dies" This the counterfeiters could not
initiate, on account of the great expense
and the unwillingness of honest mocha
mics to make counterfeit die. AS soon
as the fraud was discovered the Mum
yon 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
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 the
bottom, and we sincerely hope that he
will be able to bring all parties con-
cerned in this despicable fraud to JUS
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