The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-11-30

was permitted to send gifts or SOU
Venirs TO members or his family free
of duty. Kempner had parties i'm cuba
buy cigars for him and send them to
: him by registered mail, marked Gift
3 thereby evading the duty. Seventy
+ eight packages were received by Kemp
ner in this way. many of which he
sold.
He was removed oct. 25. 1908
Office Of Assistant Attorney General.
The administrative methods of Ty-
ner and Barrett are clearly illustrated
in a number Of cases which were
passed upon by them.
j.. q. LeWss.-E. q. Lewis OF St.
Louis, Mo, was conducting what is
known as an endless chain" scheme.
Barrett ruled that his scheme was a
lottery bat no fraud order was issued,
and as an acknowledgment of Barrett's
lenient treatment Lewis presented him
with a gold watch
: Samuel Harris.-Samuel Harris Of
New York published i'm the papers a
picture Of an eye. then the letters d
and A. followed by the picture of a
hoe The advertisement announced
tfat Sl00 reward would be given to
anyone who would correctly answer the
name Of the state represented in the
picture. When an answer was sent in
liie correspondent was ADVISED LndL
under the rules of the company it was
necessary before a cash prize could be
given Tor him to purchase one package
/ Of the renowned Curaline tablets, cost
ing so cents. After buying the pack
age the victim was advised that so
. great number had answered correct
+ ~ that il became necessary TO divide
the 800 prize among them equally.
The amount due each would not exceed
? or cents.
A fraud order was issued against
Harris, but after Barrett retired from
Office he became Harris attorney. had
the fraud order revoked. and Harris
ran the same old business for months
without interruption.
Cassius III. Upton.-Cassius NJ. Up
ton, publisher of a cheap illustrated
paper i'm Chicago, sought to extend
his circulation by the puzzle plan. In
one of his schemes ne submitted the
initials of nine leading railroads run
ming out of Chicago. with the names
Of the roads spelled out, emitting a
few of the letters. He offered $500 re-
ward for full correct answers to the
list The condition was that I'm order
20 get prize it would be necessary to
send s. for a years subscription to
UptOns illustrated Weekly The puz-
Zle was so simple that anyone could
. answer IL correctly. The result was
that the $500 prize would have been
divided up until the winners would re-
Ceive less than 5 cents each. and this
Upton failed to distribute. He was
/ arrested for using the mails to de
fraud Assistant Attorney General
/ Tyncr protested against the action of
the postofice Inspector i'm causing the
arrest And upon Barrett's urgent APP
peal the attorney general. over the
protest Of the district attorney. di-
rected that the case be dismissed.
T. NJ. Cushman.-At the same time
that linton was operating in Chicago,
L. Nj. Cushman. publisher of the Co
lumbar. Of Boston, Mass. was also
Onerat ting schemes of exactly the same
character. and on July l. 1899. Barrett
declared his schemes fraudulent stat
ing that the case should be presented
TO the district attorney with a view Of
his Indictment Yet a short time he
fore he had declared the prosecution
Of Upton for exactly the same Omense
twas unwarrarted-"
Bond Investment Schemes.
When the Louisiana Lottery com
pany was broken up by the federal
government a number OF bond invest
mrnt schemes sprang up over the
country embracing lottery features in
their methods of business.
Assistant Attorney General Thomas
declared i'm 1899 that,
These so-called bond investment
schemes are more dangerous to society
than avowed lotteries
shortly after Tyner and Barrett were
installed i'm office eight OF these bond
Investment companies, against which
fraud orders had been issued by Thorn
+ as. formed an organization and sent
representative to Washington for the
/ purpose of having these fraud orders
/ revoked. 6. A. Where of New Orleans.
+ q representative of these companies.
on June "a wrote the secretary Of his
C., mDany as follows:
ct have got the strongest assurance
that the government is our friend and
win do an they can for us. Being sure
of this. i wanted to return home. but
Butterworth Dudley and TyneT him-
= self tell me that 1 must stay here;
that 7 viii be needed"
on June 2S four days later he again
wrote.
Had q long interview with the law
clerk (very satisfactory He is a nice
fellow and "a relative Of Tyner's wife.
His name is Barrett and he has charge
OF this matter Of ours and is conduct
ing the Investigation. / ex-
pect suspension order by about
Thursday
This letter was written on Monday.
June 2S. The fraud order was revoked
on Wednesday. the 3Oth. one day earlier
than Where expected.
After the fraud orders against these
Institutions were revoked. bond invest
ment schemes multiplied until there
were several hundred in the United
: states.
Early IN the year 1900 Barrett and
]. Henning helms. an agent for bond
Investment company. made verbal
/ agreement to enter into a law part
rership Jan. J. 1901. shortly after this
/ agreement Barrett announced that he
intended TO render a decision as to all
bond investment schemes. This opin-
ion was rendered on Dec. 3. 1900 and IL
4 held all bond investment concerns as
/ fraudulent. But while declaring them
"inimical to the postal laws. Barrett
suggested that they be given an OPP
portunity 80 make such changes as