The sun., 1898-03-26

Each COnLeSCaUt Was W pay IWeHVv
five cents for three months subscrip
tion to the magazine and to send
complete solution.
When the solution was published i
was known to consist of eleven sets o
words, one of which was "a knot or
Lincoln" the reference being to a cravat
Another advertisement offered $3Ol
cash for correct list OF answers to i,
puzzle containing fifteen words with mis-
sing letters and 1850 guarantee gol(
watch and chain to all who filled in ter
words correctly.
Both OF these were answered by the
hundreds in Wilmington, and in NUN
ber of instances all the subscribers re
ceived after solving the "puzzle" wa
the magazine; also letter later inform
ing them that they had won prize, gole
watch or ring, for which they must for
ward $500 this latter being guarantee
that they would subscribe for the maga
zine for five years.
The requisite amount was forwarded Il
the company and when the watch ane
ring was received they were found,to b
worth $3.50 cents respectively.
The victims rather than gain nototit,
by bringing charges against the company
let the matter 60 by default as they die
not want their friends to know to What
extent they had trusted to the integrity
and 'honesty of purpose Of The Wom'
ans World.
In New York city where the scheme
has also been worked with success Post
master Van Cott has been notified that
the fraud order issued against the
Woman's World Publishing Company
and j. H. Plummer, publisher, had been
extended to include all mail addressed
either to the Woman's World, the
Woman's World Company, the Woman't
World and Jenness Miller Monthly and
J. H, PluInmer, manager.
This notice brought i message of vic.
tory to the newly organized Society for
the Suppression of Fraud and Crime, OF
that city, which was incorporated in
November last, with Thomas II. Mar.
shall, OF the Havemeyer Sugar Refining
Company, as chairman OF the Executive
Committee. n'
The society found that many petty
frauds were being committed by persons
who used the United States mails, and
that the operators reaped fortunes in a
few months. Their victims were SCAT
tered throughout the country, and the
individual losses were small.
Assistant United States Attorney Gen
craI Tyner, who is chief of the Post Office
Legal Department, was appealed to, and
he said the few inspectors employed in
the Post Office Department were kept so
busy that little attention was given to
small crimes
Gar,lennlrc n Vandivcrt, OF New
York, were retained as counsel to the
society, the directors subscribed funds
for crusade, and appeals were sent to
clergymen and school teachers through
out the country to join the society. No
expense is attached to membership.
More than "a thousand clergymen and
school teachers have enrolled, and nearly
all of them have reported apparent
frauds.
From all parts Of the country came
complaints regarding the advertisements
of the Woman's World and Jenness
Miller Monthly, two magazines merged
into one and published by Charles p.
Ellis, at Nos. % and "a North William
street, New York.
Three clerks were kept busy in the
registered letter department of the New
York Post Office handling watches and
jewelry mailed by Mr.. Ellis employees.
Two thousand packages were mailed in a
single day, and there were seldom fewer
than five hundred in day.
The hearing consuned three full days
and was concluded on Saturday, Feb
ruary 26. Mr.. Ellis war represented by
Vernon NJ. Davis of New York and Gen.
Dudley OF Indiana. 1t was held by Mr.
Gardenhire that the Abraham Lincoln
puzzle offered was deceptive and that the
$3.50 guarantee watch' advertisement
was so made up of ambiguous words that
the reader would suppose that he would
get q $50 watch for solution and twenty
five cents and would learn after paying
that amount that he would get maga-
zine for five years and a watch valued at
$3.50 upon the payment Of s. in addition
to the twenty-five cents he bad paid.
Mr. Ellis testified that. the watch he
gave cost him 81, purchased in l0,OW' lots
He pleaded that his manager had pub
lished the advertisements without his
consent.
Mr.. Gardenhile stated that the maya
zine had built up a circulation Of 500, 900
within few months, and that the profits