The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-03-19
SEEK AN |MPOSTER
Capt. Hoos Of Salvation Army Asks
Police To Get SWindler Work.
ing Under Army Name
MADE A CANVASS OF THE CITY
Captain Hoos Fears That the Man May
Have Secured a Large Sum of
Money By His Misrepre-
sensations in Kenosha

Captain I. H. Hoos in charge of the
work of the Salvation Army in Keno
sha has appealed to the police of the
city in an effort to capture q smooth
sWindler who has been working in the
city for the past few days in the guise
of member of the army and who is
alleged to have collected quite sum
of money under representations that it
is for the use Of the Salvation Army
Corps in Kenosha. The man is declared
by the captain to be an imposter and
lit is thought that he is one of the
a man who has worked under the same
disguise in several of the other cities
in the west during the past few months.
The workings Of the man in Kenosha
were first discovered by Captain Hoos
on Thursday and he at once notified
the police and asked that every posi-
BILE effort be made to arrest the man.
The police have made search of the
city, but It IS evident that the man had
an linking of what was going on and
fed the town before the police could
lay hands on him
It is thought that the man has been
working in l<enosha since last Monday
and he has been most general in bis
work. He has not only solicired funds
for the army work from down town mer
chants and factory men, hut in some
Of the districts of the city he has made
a house to house convass. He told a
plausible story of suffering among the
poor of the city and declared that the
army was having many calls for aid
from the poor and unemployed that they
could not meet on account of lack of
funds. He had a number Of stock
stories Of suffering among the poor
which he told IN such an effective man
ner that in nearly every case he man
aged to get some contribution. 1t is
| claimed that in some places he received
amounts as high as five dollars. The
man gave receipts for the money CON
tributed. He was attired i'll uniform
which was very close to the regulation
of the army and wore the badge Of the
army. However he wore a black hat
which had no band about it and this at
tracted the suspicion of some people
who are better acquainted with the
work Of the army and they at once com
municated with the officials of the local
corps.
There seems to be a regularly organic
ed band of these swindlers working in
the middle west under the uniform of
the order. Some three years ago one
j of the men was captured as a result
of the workings of the Kenosha corps
given Kenosha wide berth. However
! it seems that the members of the gang
have got new assurances Of the easy
people of Kenosha and they have de-
cided to give the town another trial.
| It is impossible to tell how much
money the man secured in Kenosha but
as Kenosha people have always proved
liberal in their support of the work Of
the Salvation army it is thought that
the man got away with considerable
amount.
| Captain Hoos is planning to issue a
formal notice to the people of the city
in regard to contributing funds for the
work which if followed will make it
impossible for swindlers to work in
the city in the guise of the army in the
| future.
| In the meantime the description of
the swindler has been sent to all towns
surrounding and the police are making
every possible effort to arrest him.