Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-24
CONGRESSMAN AMONG sU1ToRs.
Western Representative One Of Those
After $4,000 Dowry.

The New York Times Of today says: Chief
Inspector Thorpe and Inspector Little OF
the Post Office Department spent an inter-
esting afternoon yesterday with the corre-
spondence Of 1.-The Robert T. Simpson Es-
tate, Limited Of So Wall street, an al
legged fraudulent marriage bureau raided
on Tuesday. The reputed proprietor who Is
known by many names, including Scudder
Furlong and Furnald, was discharged by
Magistrate Crane in the Center street police
court yesterday, to be rearrested immedi-
ately by United States Marshal McAviney
on the charge Of Illegally using the mails
United States Commissioner Shields COM
mitted the prisoner to the Ludlow street
animation Thursday. Then it was that the
inspectors settled down to their task Of
finding further evidence against him. The
circumstances which brought about Fur
maids downfall was certain widely pub
lished newspaper advertisement to the eff
feet that an English heiress must marry
before June to secure her in certain prop
erty rights and would settle $4,000 upon
the bridegroom. Applicants were Informed
that the trustee who advertised would
forward a photograph Of the heiress for 81.
Vanity was the prevailing note of many.
II not most Of the letters. Il am hand
some." and my friends consider me good
looking" as well as II look ten years
younger than I am" were oft-repeated
phrases.
Most astonishing of all was the letter Of
western congressman, whose name Ia
suppressed. The representative wrote that
with $4,000 he could SO further his politi-
cal interests that there would be no Office
within the gift of his state to which he
could not reasonably aspire.
''t is not improbable" he wrote to tho
trustee" at the close. that you may
yourself be interested in legislation one OF
these days. and friend seated In the halls
Of Congress might not be a bad thing to
cling to-"
Suspicion was awakened in one resident
Of Norfolk, Va, however, for he wrote in
part as follows:
'Why should 1 contribute one dollar for
photo of the lady? If l am to marry her In
the morning. and, according to your letter,
leave her at once, why should l care how
she looks? You are correct in assuming
that 1 have a dollar. but not to exchange
for a six and three-querter cent photo
graph of a beautiful heiress
STILL the Norfolk man thought there
might be something in the offer, as the
next paragraph of his long letter reads:
But if, perchance, you really do need
some bright young man to wed the lady
and save for her this vast estate. you can
call me with perfect assurance that I
will wed her at any old place and at any
old time, but II it is essential that I pro-
duce that dollar, permit me to herewith re-
sign in favor Of the 2f999 other young
and handsome gentlemen who, as you ex-
press it. have entered the lists.
Four closely written pages came from the
inventor of an electrical device. The inven-
ton was fully described and then the writ
er set forth that $4,000 invested in 1t would
develop it into a veritable mint. He prom
Used the trustee" that II he would see that
he got the heiress he would make him q
present of the 1000 as soon as the inven-
ton began to yield and would also give
him few shares in the patent, but enough
to make him a multi-millionaire.
Heiresses might serve as an Introduction.
but they were not the only rich property
dealt in by the Simpson Estate, limited"
The trustee" it was seen, had unfoided
a plan to Mr.. Stevens Of Colorado for
lending money on call loans to New York
stockholders at rates which would yield q
return Of from to 20 per cent a month.
The answer, prompted apparently merely
by sense Of duty to acknowledge all COM
munications, was a model Of business brew
ity. 1t follows. in full:
Managing Trustee, Robert T. Simpson Es-
tate, Limited:
Dear Sir: Count me out. Yours truly.
EDGAR T. STEVENS.
1924 Larimer street, Denver. Col, Dec 10,