Richmond daily palladium., 1900-04-02
BuNCOED.
A MAN FROM JAW COUNTY
BITES ON THE
Same Old Game-Buvs $4,000 Worth
Of Green Goods and Then Doesn't
Get the Goods - Loses 5000 and His
Train Fare But Gains Some Valua-
BILE Experience That Others Had
Gained for Him. Years Ago.

On Friday last, right in the heart
of this city, man from Jay,
Finley Myers by name, bit on the OLD
green goods game that has been ad-
vertised more than any brand of soap
or sarsaparilla on earth, and paid
out $500 of good money for nothing
but some experience.
On March 20 man calling himself
Williams called on Mr.. Myers at his
store in q country village near Port
,.nd. Williams wanted - cell Myers
some dry goods. Myers decided to
buy some, and arranged to meet
Williams in this city on Friday,
March 30. True to his promise
Myers came on Friday last on the
1870 train and was met at the sta
ton by Mr. Williams, who escorted
his intended victim to The Westcott.
They entered at the tenth street
door, walked up the stairway and
went to parlor A on the first floor.
There the man from Jay county was
introduced to good-looking man
calling himself Atwood. The latter
was glad 10 see his rustic
friend, and showed him a ia
BILE spread out full of green
backs. There was 81, 900 there
displayed MIR Myers was informed
that he could buy himself rich there
at once; that that money was all
counterfeit, and that so clever was
the work done thereon that no one
would ever suspect it was queer. He
examined it and found it apparently
good He was told that the dies for
making it had been stolen from Uncle
Samuel workshops themselves, and
that the bills, while not having the
sanction of the law, were genuine.
This money was offered him at the
rate of 800 for each 81 900. The Jay
county man decided that the invest
ment would be a good one, and he
potted 50. 900 of the alleged queer,
leaving in its stead $500 of his own
hard earned ducats. Then Mr.. At
wood told Mr. Myers that it would
be unsafe to take the mouey home
with him, but that it would be best
to ship it by Adams express.
The 5000 was placed in a
chaser, and while the latter ahd
MIR. Atwood stood in parlor A and
held pleasant converse MIR. Williams,
the first man who had approached My
ers, went out with the box to express
it. Then the men went in to dinner
together, and at 1:O5 the man from
JAY county went home. Then those
two men Williams and Atwood,
who were registered under other
names at The Nestcott, and who
registered from Cincinnati, got them
hence with considerable celebrity.
The next morning when Mr. My
ers went to the express Office at
Portland to get his money, he re-
ceived instead an empty tia box.
1t was the old. old game. The men
had shown Myers good money. He
had bought 50, 900 of legal tender for
$500, and when he had let it get out
of his sight the box with the money
had been substituted by an empty
box just like it.
When Mr.. Myers found his empty
box he at once complained to the po-
lice of this city, and twas discovered
that the men had left the town long
before the trick had been discovered.
Mr.. Myers is in deep mourning for
his $500, and says gloomily that '.the
place they took me to was so tine an
fixed up that | didu' t have time
think. The fact is he was daZzled,
as many wiser man has been, by the
discovery of what a palatial hotel
Richmond has and he was practically
IN a dream from the time he entered
the city.
The two sharks had been here pre-
viously, on March IL. and had parlor
A. They perhaps had some sucker
on the string al that time, and it was
at that time that the man calling
himself Williams looked up the Jay
county lad.
The men were fine looking fellows.
well dressed and aristocratic in APP
pearance, and well calculated to daz-