The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-28
SWINDLE In WALL STREET
TYPEWRITER DECOY ORDER AND
A DANGEROUS ONE.

Tn his collections of bucket shop inter-
allure, a detective who is known In his
true capacity to only few people III
Wall street has what even he considers
a gem of ray serene, says the New YORK
TELEGRAPH 1t has not been in his pos
session a long time and is of the type
writer decoy order. Of course, its OBJ
iect is to snare money from the bucolic
or the unwary of any description.
Tell YOUR readers said the detective,
"to pay no heed to any apparently mis-
directed letter they may receive from
Carrie Fannie or the like, with init
nation in it of how they can invest $lOU
in Wall street and make $1,000 or some
such other preposterous amount in a
month A new genius has arisen among
the bucket shop fraternity, and he has
been sending out such letters by the
bushel Carrie or Fannie is not girl
typewriter at all, but bold, bad, clever
man.
Here is his method of operation: He
sends out the letter in the business en-
velope of his alleged brokerage firm.
The letter apparently is written by the
firms typewriter to her sweetheart and
placed in the wrong envelope. The man
getting it is expected to think himself
smart and send his money to the firm,
and then the firm, namely, the new
genius in the sWindling field, does the
rest, namely, appropriates the remit
lance.
but the letter comes pretty near
speaking for ITSELF added the detective,
as he handed out a copy to the reporter.
Here it is:
Dearest Toni hope you will excuse
me writing to you on typewriter but L
am busy sending out a lot of business
letters and can write this without any
one knowing what I am writing. I
haven't had much fun since 1 wrote you
last; it is work, work, work all the time.
l am getting tired humping on this ma
chine all the time when money is so cas-
lily made.
1t seems that every one except us is
getting rich L send out checks every
day all over the country. 1 sent one to
a man today who sent us only 500, and
it was for $1,S75. 1 sent out checks last
month for over $4,000. Just think of it!
| am beginning to think we are foolish
for being so poor
Now 1 want to tell you something.
Promise you won't tell. l have almost
500 now, and when 1 get $100 even [ am
going. to send it to you and have you
it's me. know what it will bring us,
and we will soon have enough to marry
Don't say. word when l send you
the money, but just do as 1 say. know
what I am doing. Next month the firm
will make 100000 on one deal, and we
will get our share. Don't forget, now.
Oh, can hardly wait. Your own sweet
heart. Carrie.
Every one receiving such a letter as
that, the genius figures, will think that
Carrie or Fannie made a mistake
and put it in the wrong envelope and
will conclude that if it is such a good
thing for the girl and her sweetheart it
should be an equally, good thing for him.
Evidence that would hold in court Of
law is almost impossible to obtain to
convict this genius of the swindlng
which he probably has done by means of
this letter, but his career has been
checked, for he has been warned that if
he did not quit the business the auto
cratic postal authorities would make
trouble for him. He is being watched
now lest he may resume the trick.