Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-05-23
BEHIND PRISON BARS.
Startling Story of Conspiracy
and Fraud.
CONTEMPLATING MUNYON'S
REMEDIES.
Two Persons in Prison and
More to Follow.
The Wonderful Success of Munyon's I'M
proved Homeopathic Remedies Has In
duced interruptions Persons to Flood the
Markets With Spurious Goods.

Wheeling people will be glad to learn
that 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
palming off worthless medicines on the
sick and that no punishment is too Sc
we're for imitators and coTnterfeiters.
1t 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 it is so, for no
sooner is meritorious remedy fully es-
tablished, the confidence Of the people
justly won, than the country is deluged
with counterfeit and worthless imita
tions. Probably no concern has had so
many rascally imitators to contend with
as the Munyon Homeopathic Remedy
Company. Owing 10 the wonderful sue
cess OF these remedies, homeopathic
medicine companies have sprung up like
mushrooms, under various names. each
claiming to be better than the other
Some of these companies have dellber-
ately copied the Munyon advertise
ments, almost bodily, stealing whole
pages from Munyon's Guide 10
Health" with scarcely 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 we're
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 conSpirators.
He has now in prison one of his former
employees and a confederate by the name
OF c. H. Ferron. alias c. II. Fanola.
Ferron, is seems, has been working for
more than year in conjunction with
dishonest employees of the Munyon Com
pany. Goods, labels and material were
surreptiously taken from the Munyon
Laboratory, pellets we're 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 Com
pany had taken precaution to have the
metal cap which covers their walls
stamped with the words MUNYON'S
homeopathic Remedies This the
counterfeiters could not initiate. on ac
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 representatives
throughout the country and gathered in
all the spurious goods, but Professor
Munyon advises all persons who buy
the remedies to see that the metal can
Is marked Munyon's homeopathic
Remedies" Ferron declared when ar
rested that he was led into this bust
ness 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 81 900
OF these imitation goods. Professor
Munyon promises to probe this matter
to the bottom, and we sincerely hope
that ne will be able to bring all parties
concerned in this despicable fraud to
justice.