Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-04-06
OHIO MAN WHO HAD A SCHEME
TO SAVE FARE UNDER ARREST
MANY Railroads Swindled Out of Largo Sums OF
Money The Secret" Sold to Hundreds
Of Commercial Travellers.

mover scheme by which many rail,
roads have been swindled out of large
sums CT money has been killed by the
RAILWAY ticket protective bureau and
the tniied States postal authorities.
Recently a commercial traveller no.
uiled tn Lureau that a man named
Il. Frank Hogmer, living at Warren,
OHIO. Offered to sell for IS a sure
scheme for travelling on trains without
paying fare. Detectives Of the bureau
were sem ont TO investigate the
scheme and catch the inventor. AT.
ter roceivins five dollars sem through
the mails, liogmer thus described to
the detectives his scheme for beating
the railroads;
Commence The scheme on some
last train, as it canno help but work.
Simply so into the coach, drop your
grip and overcoat into a seat, and
notice through the front door OF the
coach when you see the conductor In
the coach ahead Of the one you are
in, step inside the lavatory, and stand
directly behind the door, but do not
lock the door.
THE conductor invariably enters
the coach, simply opens the door and
closes 1t without looking in. Be very
careful to stand SO that should he
open the door very wide it would
strike the stop which is usually on the
seat. This always gives a man room
to stand without the door touching
him.
THE conductor passes on, checking
upshis train, and when sufficient time
has elapsed for the conductor to get
through the coach, or almost through
the coach, you simply walk out quietly.
drop into your seat, and remain there.
"The conductor never checks up his
train on returning to the front. 1t is
also we'll, on a long run, after you
have allowed the conductor to pass
you, incidentally to meet him and ask
him regarding some connection that
he may become familiar with your
face, which afterward would assure
him that you had come from a point
away back"
Hogmer was arrested by the postal
authorities for fraudulent use of the
mails and is low awaiting trial at
Cleveland. 1t is alleged he sold his
secret" for saving railroad fare to
hundreds of commercial travellers and
claimed they worked" it successfully
ON all the big railroads in the east
and from Chicago to the south.
Detectives of the railway ticket pro-
tectiye bureau made a practical test
Of Hogmer's scheme and 1t succeeded
on the Pennsylvania and Baltimore &
Ohio roads. They did not try any
Others. Hogmer claimed to be an Odd
Fellow, Mason, and a former member
of the united commercial travellers
association.
Firemen Crum and Hardage have
been indisposed.
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Engineer McGraw Is off duty, his
place on the outside goat being filled
by Engineer Jessoy.
Max Van Horn. travelling passenger
agent for the FL Paso & Northeastern,
vent up to Trinidad this morning.
Mrs. H. F. Bowman and child, fam
Ny of the throttlejerker. have come
up from Socorro and joined him here.
Conductor T. J. O'Fallon has been
visiting Ration, Conductor ]. A. Quig-
ley having his passenger run on the
south end.
II. j. Franklin, claim agent, and DIR.
A. Tyroler. assistant surgeon, both To-
Gated at Los Angeles and in the SER
vice of the Santa Fee coast lines, were
recent visitors in Albuquerque. Harry
Franklin for many years was located