Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-11-21
.H[ COT MANY VICTIMS
P. James Res Reaps a Harvest
Among the Farmers. OF
Boone County.
Many Signed Notes Ranging
From $40 to $3.50 For Med.
ical Treatment.
The Notes We're Negotiable and
the Medicine Was Rain
Water.
s-Republican.

| Boone, Nov. 21.-It has developed that
P. James Res, who swindled A. S. Nell
son out of S125 week or two ago, victi-
| mized q large number of persons in the
county with his seductive scheme.
Several farmers around the country
! were called on by this smooth CRATER
and in most every instance his trip was
rewarded by being able to secure note
for amounts ranging from $500 to as
high as $3.50.
P. A. Engstrom, a poor, law abiding,
honest tiller of the soil who lives with
his family about six miles northwest OF
this city entered into an agreement
with the wiley p. James Res for six
months treatment for rheumatism,
from which he, Mr.. Engstrom. is con-
slant sufferer. Before the deal was
closed both Mr. and Mrs. Engstrom
signed promisory note calling for the
payment Of $3.50 in six months. same
bearing six per cent interest from date
of signature. For this note, Res gave
a receipt but 10, behold, upon his de-
parture he took note, receipt and every
thing in sight. Mr.. Engstrom did not
mistrust the visitor till he saw the adj
tisement placed in this paper by MIR.
Nelson. Since then has decided that he
was buncoed out of his note and will re-
ceive nothing in return. Mr.. Engstrom
is poor, hard working man and says
that as he has signed the note he will
endeavor to pay it but it is a shame that
tha nf hac -
grafters can not be confined to victims
with more money for such uses than is
possessed by Mr.. Engstrom.
Abraham Gustafson was another
farmer who was victimized out of $120.
he having signed a note in payment of
six months treatment for a disease with
which he was suffering.
Mr.. Engstrom Informed the Republic
an that others in his neighborhood had
also been made poorer by the visit of
that learned P. James Res to this Sec
ton and that Harry Nelson. son of Au-
gust Nelson, five miles north of Boone.
is receiving $120 worth of treatment for
some disease and Abraham Gustafson is
taking $500 worth for some ailment. 1t
is quite likely that others have sub
scribed to this fund. but do not care to
have the matter made public.
1t is thought by some that this smooth
individual is the same CRATER that oper-
ated in and around Fort Dodge Up in
Webster county the CRATER called on
physicians and told long tale of woe
concerning his having fought a duel in
Germany number of years ago and
was compelled to flee to America to
avoid arrest. He claimed to be physi-
clan Of no i'll repute and talked fluently
of the latest discoveries in the science,
discussed all the latest treatises on the
subject of medicine, and in manner
which gained the confidence of the mem
bers OF the "profesh" told of modern
methods employed in surgery, as en-
ployed by him in Germany and even in
Minneapolis, where he had been assist
ant physician for the city. This last
work was given up, he said, because of
his inability to collect his salary Of ST.
COO per year.
He claimed he was trying to get to
st. Louis, where rich uncle would pro-
vide him with means with which to re-
turn to Germany. where he intended To-
eating and resuming the practice of
medicine in some remote corner of the
country, where it would be easy to
avoid detection. The doctors in Fort
Dodge emptied their purses at his feet
and dined him. They could not do
enough to aid him on his way The
next day the doctor" walked into
Manson and piled the same tale with
the same effect. AS soon as the Fort
Dodge doctors learned this they sent
out after him, only to find that he had
flown to pastures greener.
1t is thought that those in Boone
county who have been swindled will
take concerted action against paying
these notes. and il possible devise some
means which will relieve them Of the
obligation which they have thus con-
tracted. Mere publication in the local
papers may effect this and it may not.
1t is imperative that the holder of the
note shall receive notice of the fact that
the paper is without consideration" or
else collection can he enforced. In case
an innocent second or third party comes
in possession Of this paper, there is no
way In which relief can be obtained. 1t
is quite likely that p. James Res has a
string Of confederates and that the
notes will pass from one to another till
payment Of the obligation can not be
avoided.
1t was learned Wednesday that the
man who contracts cures among the
farmers claims that the California
Illinois Medical and Surgical Insti-
tute which he claims to represent is To-
Gated in Chicago. However, a message
to one of the largest advertising agen-
cies in that city brings the answer that
no such firm is doing business in that
city and that the man who claims to
such a firm must be an i'm
poster.
Mr.. Engstrom received notice thru
the mail Tuesday to call at the express
Office for a package. He did call for a
package and got a package. AS the
term is used on the street, the express
man handed" him package, on which
express charges to the modest amount
of so cents We're due. The package
water. alloes. little licorice and pretty
perfume. the smell alone of which
would cure any case of rheumatism
that ever existed in the state. Another
thing about the package which at
tracted Mr.. Engstrom's attention was
the fact that the receipt for his $3.50
note was not contained therein.
Cornell College Notes.
Special to Times Republican.
Mt. Vernon, Nov 2l.--President King
and Rev, r. T. .Gruwell '96, are giving
their entire attention to raising the en-
dowlnent for the new library.