Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-03-10
SHE is CLEVER.

Mary A. Mohr, charged with having
obtained money under false pretenses
had her preliminary examination
Wednesday at Colby before Justic,
Walt Pradt and was bound over to the
4 circuit court for trial. Her bail was
fixed at ST. 900 which she was unable t.
furnish, and she was brought to Wau
! sau and placed in the county Jail
An investigation into the woman:
methods brings out the fact that she
has been conducting swindling opera
tions for about four years, and during
that time has cleared up thousands o.
dollars AS we said last week it is diff
cult to tell the extent of her operations,
for the reason that she has placed .
great many of her victims in a very
unenviable position by making usurers
4 of them, but it is quite likely that hel
dupes are many. She had two games
the one we mentioned last week of OBJ
tanning money on mortgages on the
strength of a worthless abstract to land
and the fraternal dodge. She claimed
to be a member of several women's s
lodges and lodges to which women are
admitted, and as the occasion would
arise she would use these as club to
/ pound money out of her unSuspecting
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oD Surveyor Brown To him she
told story of her having borrowed
$l70 of lodge treasurer, and that the
latter might settle with the society be.
| fore the end of the year she desired to
return the funds. Brown gave her the
money, she agreeing to give mortgage
on 100 head of cattle, and his wife ac.
companiod the woman home to view
the property and get the mortgage,
At Eau Claire she purchased several
presents for Mrs. Brown, with instruc-
tions to saiesmen to ship them to the
| the latter before Christmas. By some
hook or crook she managed TO send
Mrs. Brown home without the mort
gage, and day or so later the presents
arrived marked c. o. ID.
She has lately been operating around
Marshfield, and but for an investi-
cation by Judge Pors, would have Sc
cured 81 800 from one man, who called
at his office to have papers drawn up
on loan. She has an so acre farm near
Stanley, valued at about 81, 500 with
nearly hundred head of cattle, several
hundred chickens, great number OF
swine, etc. An investigation shows
that she has chatte mortgages on her
| live stock to the value of SC, ,925 SO and
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brings the sum total against the farm
and stock up to S2l 1888 IL. What she
has done with the money is mystery.
She evidently had an accompEee who
furnished her with the fraudulent alb
stracts, pictures of farm buildings, ETC.,
VIII ich she carried with her. and she
per haps made "divy." Although she
is evidently smooth CRATER it is diff
ticult to tell wherein lies her persua-
siveness. She is neither comely or a
| fine dresser, aud does not speak the
English language with fuency She
is also under Indictment to appear in
circuit court in Buffalo county on a
similar charge and perhaps has oper-
ated in other counties.
The strangest part of tie whole
thing is that her swindling methods did
not cause her arrest long ere this, for
many men whom she approached are
men of experience in real estate and loan
transactions, who should have looked
into matters before they loaned the
money, aud that she could smortgage
property over and over again without
being detected does not look reason
able from business view. Through
her attorneys her bail bond was
reduced to $3.50 which she has since
secured. She will probably be tried
here at the spring term of court, and
| before that time it is quite probable
that additional evidence will be secured
against her.