Evening journal., 1898-12-08
ONE CENT.
zACHARIAS' costs"
Manager of a Local Agency
May Get in Trouble
IN POWER OF THE DEBTOR GLASS

CONSULTING THE COURTS, AND
ANYONE FROM WHOM HE HAS
RECEuvED TEIEM CAN HAYES
HIM ARRESTED FOR FAGsG
PRETENHE-
The COLLECTION department OF the Del
aware Mercantile Company, which &C.
cupies rccm No. 1e in the McVSy
building. hhs been pursuing q practlce
which, II persisted in, may RESULT in
the general manager, Harvard Q.
zachhrfas, being sent to jadl for tne
crime OF obtaining money by false pre-
tense. This company sends out cfaius
In envelopes bearing the HawinSnaw
motto THE Eye That Never Sleeps.
Wilmington. Delaware, Box No. z93.
On its letter heads it states that over
5000 Debtors Brought Before the Court
During the Past Year ON Write dssued by
This Company" It declares that "TnaH
company is for the protectdon OF em-
ployers, merchants and professional
men, agaiust unreliable employees and
non-paydng credit customers. ITO
avoid error. know the law" ITO avoid
the penalty. obey the law" Beneath
these terrible lines d. NTcfAughain, Of
No. 6l9 West Eighth street, received
this communications from this mercanS
tile company:
Wilmington, Del. Dec. g. 1893.
u. McI.auvhlin. 619 West Eighth
street
Dear Sir: claim against you OF
$3.50 and costs (coets SID has been
placed in cur hands fer collection BY
Charles NJ Grubb.
! II you wish 10 protect yourself Irom
Inconvenience and extra costs you can
do SO by paying the face OF this bill at
once. otherwise the company will begin
proceedings on this claim, when extra
cenas Will be added Make the pay
Z ment direct to this Office.
Very respectfully youB.
The Delaware Mercantile %.
p. ST. you dispute the correctness
9 OF this claim, let us know, as we VIII
d not report the same II there is bona
a nde dispute. Address local Office
Office hours forenoOns. to IL; az
ternoons, TO 6. d. M. z.
70 Mclaughlin owed GruDD $3.50 for
VI coat, but said that on one occasion
Is Mrs. Mclaughlin called on G1uubb TO
" pay half cf II and to make arrange
=, ments for the payment OF the other
W. half and was informed that he wag
out. On another occasion GruIbD caaled
- at the house to get his money and sine
u WAS out Then, without further de-
y mand, the bill was placed I'M the hands
- Of this company, and the above letter
followed.
Z" Instead CT caiiing on General Man
: ager Zacharlas, Mclaughlin called on
- George T. Brown. his attorney, and hb
:" went around and saw the general man
- ager
-H 81 nrtice that you have Costs, 81 Al,
marked in That bill-what is than for2'
~ inquired Mr. Brown.
a w why, costs in thss matter," replied
! Zacharias.
Hs what want To know is whether
~ any costs have been laid in this mat
-s teri" insisted Mr.. Brown, who was
there for business, and would take no
- evasiye anewers.
:" Finally ZachaETas admitted that
there were NO lega3 COSTS laid by legal
process.
at Then what do you mean oy sending
IN such a claim TO my cliens2" inquired
10 the lawyer.
ay Zaeharlas made several lame excuses
t.s.f -. 49,
taken the s1.41, but merely the fac'
Of the bin.
Iil- MIR. Brown then lsft and advised Me
for Laughlin to go and seucle with Grubl
on, and to have nothing whatever to ds
m. with the mercantile company.
ing To an Evening journal reporter. VIII.
got wind cf the transaction. Mr. Brow
said that amy person from whOu
Zacharias has Collected such costs
me can have him arrested on warran
pe- charging him with obtaining money b
at false pretense. The general manage
rne and those whom he has thus taxed ma
igh soon stand face to face in the criminr
courts Of the county. for debtors d
not usually have murh love for euc
collection agencies, and less for tn
men who run them.
'As Following up the story this mornin
'1.r it was learned that the local represel
''"' tative OF the company called on NJ
Brown this morning and expressed Il
. hope that no trouble would result. F
dsv said that Grubb sent him the bill
,s,sa collect in that way. and that on
on the face Of the biz would have be.
Tho collected, anyway.
Grubb was sent for and questions
He denied that he had designated al
particular method OF collection. al
the merely sent the bill in with instrn
and tions to collect 1t.
adad Mr. RI-nWn aaNa him aa-a ~, ~. q.