The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-10-01
SWINDLERS ABROAD
Outrageous Fraud Perpe-
trated in the Name
Of Charity.
FAKE ENTERTAINMENT FOR THE BLIND
Two Men Sell Tickets IN New York
for the { New Jersey In
dustrial Home"
FAKE ENTERTAINMENT FOR THE BLIND


The flake ticket swindie is an ole
oara ora tharasara nh ot,,ar ;nstitntinns
$3.50 -
OF It's klnd the people VINO manage lt9nius'
keep abreast of the times and constantly
devise new methods for obtaining money
- N.- S,su;h,a n,hIio
from the pochets OF tne suiiipie puoi
as the class of swindlers who live by
means OF this contemplate business real
ize. is a thing of the past. The public, like
the burned child, feared the fre and Wouio
no longer bite on that bait.
Some scheme had 70 be devised when
would work on the sympathetic ana
charitable. and 1t has been devised ano
worked evidently to the complete satisfac-
tlon ofthe swmdiers, put TO the personal
OF .he aioiesaiu enasi'aos
shorty oeiore eishl eloeh ast iie
aoous ~ nuauieu az ny 1872
seinoe ~ 80 - - -
osdeh a'enue -.
nane q 49,
$50
~ the
New Jersey Industrial Home for the
-, bnlLu, !.
Pohimann,s PARK /:
/: Ogden avenue. Jersey City Heights, /:
,Lnufsuay esei,sSs Sep.j ovt inmant
: will be managed and given by the blind
themselves. !:
Doois opei. q. oe.oen 49,.
80 +ha
1tAI Vo3tS1
doors 1alleo 10 open at eigiit eioch.
few minutes later William Mutschler, one
a. ~ ,ronr;e+ors rod and inquired
" Ing piopl9
the cause of the gathering. He was
shown one of the pasteboards and inn
naa;.ta,v nronounoad II a fake. No
ileuia'eiy piono
one had hired the place Tor thal hlght,
nor had he ever been approached by any
..u ~ ..Ina,str;s1 Hopa
representative y ~
an institution existed.
~ - -. Ia na4hacad voc
Inc clowo Which "a
naturally chagrined over the deception
"I.s.sa,~i NJ ior;+v soid
an soou hd.uieoiy- II 9oi'
that they had purchased the tickets IN
Naup yorL Citv from q fall neatly dressed
---- .a- $50 20
man, VINO WAS traselihs ion s'oAo :
store on one of the main avenues. He
uaS acoamnaniad nv another rather poor
....u -
iy dressed Individual, VINO either was VI
pretended to be blind. The well dressed
man was s,,nnosed to be one of the
10 va, r s. III. ~
officials of the alleged Home, "nlle the
other was supposed to be an inmate of
~ ,ns+,tntion ~ least that was the
.no $3.50
story they told TO prospective TICKET
buyers.
nha sohona worlad vel, and hundreds
~ tpa s5nIatS wera Sisnosed of few peo-
~ 5raiinanr ~ in,ast ar least fwanty-
KS, s osn4s Te, ~ worfbv an ohiscf One
in6;v;dlaj IN last niaht; crowd confessed
r. hauing his svm6afhy touched 10 the
eytent aT 81 nv The nlausible story told
nv the swindlers Several had purchased
one and Two dollars, worth OF tickets.
1sbs esma was walked almost exclusive
" in New York. although there were a
few local Dimes the sWindlers evidently
heiieving the metropolis a
safer field than this CITY in which to ply
their vocation None Of the victims had
ever seen the swfndIers before. although
the description of the two men, as told
by a number of people in the party, tall
lied, thus showing that the swindle was
a close Corporation game and was evident
IL limited 10 the two men.
1t was impossible to learn anything
about the gentlemen who manipulated the