The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-09-14
BEING GOLD BRICKED
Officers OF the Law In the
Northwest AFRO Being
Bunooed,
CHIEF BOND ESCAPED
Now md clever sWlDd!N Being Opers
Atpd Throughout the Country,
Tempting DMIL

Ono ~ The boldest md most unique
confidence games over worked IN This
country hAs inst come ~ light IN Bill
ings, " N known 10 have boon
worked successfully IN tho Inst few
weeks IN many PLACES from NJ, Pnnl
west aDd IN southern California, ADd
" IN believed tho operations Of tho
| willy bnnGD mnD hayA 1KtADd0d over "
NnGh wider territory,
The UNIQUE fantnra ~ TIM new
game w thai WV victims npo officers of
me Inv, Many Nr them have boeD
trapped on the game, bDt have kept
auiat nbDUt tho mnttor
Vigorous efforts mn beiDg mnde ~
keep i've facts from the newspapers,
nv express companies %dnIoetIyas npo
working on tho pDsn and hope ~ lnnd
tla operators,
Ghiaf Of Police Jnek Bond OF this
city WINS oD The string ~ tbs bpnpO
mnn, but the former Nv nbOnt w willy
M officer w there " mnJo md 10 "
about WI batter OW, Wn details ~
tha scheme Are being made pDblie over
tba state,
Tha method NJ operation IN this
new swindle ~ very simple, Tho
Billings 00se IN n rpNpln Of tho others
Not long ngO the Billings police do
pavtmaDt received from u town IN tho
aast A circular announcing TINT y no.
| ward NJ TpbD WINS offered fDv lh0 apppn'
hansi0N Of N certain man, Whose name
md description WIS given, llln charge
W lWGany being made 0ERt,st him
An additional reward WIZ offered for
tlla recovery Of certain pOJovs alleged
10 bA IN his p0saessiOM
They Gnme N private letter 10 Chief
Of Police Bond, The writer snid ho
had positive information lhat tIla man
mined IN the circular WIS bending for
Billings and TINT the missing dozen
menfs, fnv which thp mwnvd WIS
offered, Ind been Expressed W him
from n town iN GnnMdN ~ billings YIN
the Northern Pacific gKppess, The
writer then pointed ont tho ehDDDo
there WIS for Bond NJ make n bpiDlinnt
naptWe and incidentally secure fbe
xabO reward,
lnGlOsnd In tle letter wns ~ order
on lhn express Office 10 deliver mo
ppglmga 10 Bond, Tho writer on.
plainNd lhAt ~ eouvne the name ~
VINO wanted man Ind been forged w
lhtR order, bHf VeasOned lhnt fhe and
justified w means and advised lDAt
Bond secure tho pnGkHge FIRST md ibpD
play w saGnln tle man.
Bond went w tho express Office md
fOnnd on inquiry that mekRge WIN
there Addressed M fhe man named IN
Tho letter and shipped from tho Vnp-
ttHHlAV town IN 9ADAdA thAt had benn
mentioned,
M lDV everything looked good, Tho
reward circular WNs HE hundreds
thnt 00me into tho police IleadQnWt'
aps, The letter appeared W have beeD
written In good faitIL
But there WapA NM q, q, d, Nh0vgos
tha package, Bond decided " WIS
best w leAya tla paekaRe where
WIZ, Arranging ~ have tha agent nOlts
w him when lla mn GHllAd fp NO
lmGhaga, and then sweep down Md
anptnpe mnn and package together
Hapa IN where Bonds notions dtf'
fHped from most NJ tho other officers
who haye received the Mmo hatL
They used tha forged order, paid tte
th, took the mehnEe md were gold
IWiGhMh
The faet That tho game has boon
worked throughout tl0 northwest hDs
not heretofore baan made public IN
raet tho only publicity yet given ~
Tho gAme has been IN California; Mn
papnpR Inst week tOld how
%l0psfNblas IN southern California
owns Ind been bUueOed on Tho
sWindh, |,
ThA game IN one calculated 10 on
mp officers who aVa human enough tD /
De On tIe IOOkOnt fOu tho glory md
,AwWd thai goes with u good mptnVM
fhA express paGkagA always SOM con-
aims bogus Canadian lind scrip w u
NvgN amount When tho officer opens
4, after pAying tha Nm md linking tle
laahnge on tho bogus order, ln Nv
lrODe IN keep gpief, whiting for thN
nm w RpVaW long enough fW tho WV
W have been made 10 tlN
,pemtOE Vhem " llA suspects tA llas
mon hUpn0ad, nv hHs no desire ~
'0ptdH fhH fnGt NJ anyone, or nll
,HOplN, N police officer IN fhH Inst IN
l1nlt having boon gold hrtehed, Vhp
lHrflm faAf tiRt llN operations nre
'npduelRd from u foreign nonnFy atds
IIg DUapHiDp aAunuiuU nBulupa.