The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-09-14
GREEN GOODS GAME STILL NEW
Confidence Men Reawaken Mans Cupidity By
Swindles So Old That They
Are Novel

The green goods swindle is rife
again. AT intervals it breaks out in
| spots. like chickenpox or poison ivy,
but in the summer of 1904, when it was
supposed to be almost extinct, it has
come rushing TO the front with all it's
| oldtime energy and effect.
Lieutenant Andy Rohan has II COM
plants from repentant green goods buy
ers who attribute their downfall to
Chicago dealers" That's one Of the
peculiar advantages which the green
goods faker holds over other criminals.
His victim is, in the last analysis,
equally guilty with himself.
It is nearly eight years since a genu-
inc case of green goods has been trac-
ed to Chicago crooks. Now the police
are confronted with II. and the force
is buster on this subject than any other.
There seems to be a general revival Of
the lawless industry all over the United
States Chief of Detectives Desmond,
of ST. Louis, reports that more green
goods swindles are reported there
than any other examples of crooked
ness.
From Wheeling. w. Va, comes Of
fetal notification of the fact that Post
master Thomas w. Tichinal has been
arrested charged with green goods
swindle. His correspondence, as dis
closed by the police, revealed the pre-
sence of willing dupes in all parts of
the United States. From Wichita, KAN,
comes information that three sellers Of
bogus greenbacks are operat ting in the
southwestern part of the state, and
that stores banks, and railroad offices
are being daily embarrassed with in
quiries and complaints about the men
who have unloaded bogus money on
the unsuspecting
From Springfield, Mo-, comes per-
haps the most ingenious performance
of the new crop of green goods swind-
lers. There, for two nights, an opera
tor gave special performances in which
he converted ordinary green paper into
regulation and passable bank notes by |
simply exposing the blank paper TO the |
ravs of an electric light. This is GER
tainly a new development of the green |
goods business. and one that should |
warn all Investors against the man |
who offers to show you how to make |
money by photography
But there is yet a newer and more |
ingenious development of the green |
goods game that should be widely and /
properly exploited in order TO save |
yrasping but uniformed persons from /
he swindlers.
Eleven men have been arrested in |
II Louis for selling to numerous vic
inns machines guaranteed" to make
\ and SO bank notes out of certain !
,uality or ordinary white paper Ac-
,ording to the promoters. the only ex-
,ense involved is the purchase OF a GER
ain quantity of white paper and the
rice of the machine. In appearance
his money making machine is
miniature wringing machine, only that
he rollers are covered with an inter-
hangea bic fabric not unlike that used
n ordinary window shades.
The runner for this game picks his
-ictiu in the business streets or. in
,Iaces of amusement and proposes to
how him. with no attendant cost. the
wav to make good money out of COM
non paper." The credulous listener is
ersuaded to witness the performance
: the machine and is not asked for
r,rornise that he Will buy the con-
rivance. But he is sworn to secrecy
, case he is not satisfied. and in case
. satisfaction self preservation
ronpts and enforces absolute secrecy.
The person who yields to this allur-