The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-06-13
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SOME sRARPEaS

SOME SHARPERS
Who Are Buncoing People Cut Of
Money On Get Bich
Quick cheme.
Some OF the washing machine pso'
pie who had been operating In this
county up to last week cave gore TO
Sumter, where no doubs they are now
actively engaged in sryins 70 ges ahe
unsophisticated to exchanges some OF
their hard earned money for q get
rich quick scheme watch they palm
of under the plea Of selling rights 10
sell washing machines and establish
agencies. When they came to
Orangsburg something ever two
months ago they gave it out that
they would be aefe six or more months
and that they intended to carry at
least seventy five thou;and dollars
from this placs Tnis re are glad tc
say they have failei to d., thanks IT,
the potency # pr ter's ink. Tney
we're here some l!Gtle while before the
character OF their bus ness was e1-
actly unde1s. cod, and ia that time
they induced 8 me 1lks to invest IN
their schema, which is one OF the
most bold. faced bunco games we hav
ever attempted to run down.
On April 20 Tue Times and Demo
! crat exposed The scheme and warned
the people to let it alone. This ex
posute had tbs desired fact, and from
then up to the time hay left they
did not bunco a sirgle victim, unless
it was some one who did net reac
The Times ard Democrat. Before
the scheme was exposed in The Times
and Democrat they had uccosd
several people out Of Sums varying
from two hundred TO fifteen huad1ed
! dollars. S ;ms Of this money was
paid in-cssn, some in noses and some
Of it Is secure & by mortgages on farms
We understand that some OF those
who paid cash have torn up the
wonderful piece Of tl1e paper they
received for their money and gone
back to work On their farms, while
those who gave notes and mortgages
are kicking like tlind mules snd
swear that they will never pay either
note or mortgage. We Go not believe
they will unless these p.pers are held
by innocent parties.
Several of the victims were in town
Saturday and what they said abou'
the Wasting machine foiks and thei.
mode Of doing business was simply q
plenty. One po fellow, who had a
large family, and who had given a
mortgage for five hundred dollars or
bis farm for q right" vas loud and
deep in his denunciation Of the way
they had robbed him by induc
ing him to buy something that they
knew was worthless. This man is az
honest, hardworking farmer, bu,
knows nothing sbout the numerous
takirs that 60 up and down the world
to entrsp the inexperienced. He saic
they made him believe that people
would run him down to get chance
to buy a right" and that in a little
while. be would be able to OWL ar
automobile or TWO. After trying tx
sell rights" aad machines for about
six weeks he has given up In disgust
and gone to work on his farm, poor.
OF but wiser man. Any man or set
Of men that would take advantage OF
the man We mention above will Deal
watching.
These people lived in great style
here. They drove fine horses and
rode around in one Of the most fash.
ionab!e traps IN town. Tasy evident
ly spent the money they got from
their victims with. a free hand, and
had big time generally so far a.
good living was concerned. There
are dozen OF more people in the
party who have been boarding here,
including the wives OF the several
agents. We regret to be compelled
TO attack any mans business, but we
cannot conscienJiously let thess
smooth talking people go to some
other county and bunco the people
as they did hers without warning
their intended victims. The press OF
the State should pass them around
and compel them to go else where tc
carry or their CO.. fdence game, for
what they are doing Is little less than
that.
AS we see the two things, bunco
steering is an honorable occupation
in comparison with selling man a
right" to sell really nothing OF any
value. The more we hear about the
methods Of these people the more In.
famous they appear in cur estima
6ion. We are satisfied If the United
States postal authorities were aopris-
ed OF their mode Of doing business
that fraud order would be issued
against them and they would be de-
barred the use OF the mails. That
was what was done In the cherry tres
swindle, and we can t see where there
is any difference In tie two cases. The
cherry tree swindlers sold rights to
sell cherry trees, and the washing
machine people sell rights" to es
tablish agencies to sell washing ma
chimes. Ia both instances the people
Who invested we're buncoed and 1t
seems to u7 that the steerers ought
to be punished. The Times and Den-
ccrat.
Hidden In House.