The Topeka state journal., 1905-11-21
EVIDENCE IN BURTON TRIAL.
witnesses Testify to AIluring offers of
Rialto Company.

Three women and one man testified
before the adjournment at 4:3O o'clock
Monday afternoon. The government
succeeded in introducing letters through
these witnesses which gave the jury a
clear idea of the manner and method of
doing business pursued by the RiaItp
Grain and Security company.
Miss Bell Evans of Albany, N. Y. tes-
titled that she had sent the Rialto com
pany a draft for $50 and had never been
able to secure acknowledgment of it's
receipt. She had then made complaint
to the pOstofice department &Iiss K. c.
HOugh had written to the department
complaining that she had been sWindled
out of $50. She had received a letter
from the RialtO company stating that
they would guarantee her 600 per cent
on her investment in sixty days.
In Overruling the objection of Mr..
Lehman to the introduction of this evil
dence, Judge Van Devanter said that the
jury must understand that these letters
were solely for the purpose of showing
that complaint had been made against
the Rialto company and that a case was
pending aginst it at the time Senator
Burton appeared before the pOstoffice
department.
In the same manner the testimony of
Arthur NJ. Allen, custom inspector in
New York, was received. The govern
ment did not offer to show that the let
ters written by Allen to the postmaster
general were known to Senator Burton
at the time he appeared, and for this
reason Mr.. Lehman insisted that his
testimony should not be accepted nor
| the booklet which he had forwarded the
! department as coming from the Rialto
/ company, go before the jury. The court
overruled him and Aliens letter as well
/ as the matter which the booklet con-
/ tanned were read to the jury by Colonel
/ Dyer and General Robb, who came TO
each others rescue as the voice of one
/ or the other gave out.
1 AIluring Promises.
| The promises in this alluring booklet
| laws the foundation which shows the
! manner and method of the operations of
| the Rialto company. Golden Gains
From Golden Grains is the alliterative
and aIluring title. Following are some
Of the things which the booklet sets
forth
"Can you make $3.50 in two months
/ If so, stop right here, for this terse tale
/ is not intended for you. Otherwise,
/ S5, $50 is a lot or a. little money; it de-
pends on how long and how hard You
work for it. May be you are clever
! enough to save 81 a day. If so. in six
/ teen years you will have $3.50 Re
member, it is not what you make, but
what you save out of what you make.
/ Or, may be you have a keen, comforta bic
business that nets you solid, substan-
4 tial sum: not in q two months, but in a
I
s97. 900. Unfortunately some of US have
not s97, 600 profitably or even unprofit-
ably invested and others of US just dc
not want to wait sixteen long, craping,
suffering years
In this manner the booklet rambles
along for several pages and then il
/ continues;
with 500 as a beginning. $4,000
! or $4,000 profits can be made if you
/ get in on the right thing-at the right
/ time-with the right kind of brains
7 behind it. There is not any guess
work. theory or supposition about this;
{ Just hard, cold-blooded facts
Then lot of alleged facts are given
4 in the booklet. One of them is con-
/ tained in the statements sworn to by
/ Charles H. Brooks, showing how a
I client of the firm invested 500 in corn
for September delivery at a n6argin
of two cents a bushels. The firm re-
turned to the client $3.50 in two
months, or profit OF $3.50. There
were other letters. but nobody made a
larger profit than this particular client.
At the time Of adjournment Frank
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