The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-11-30

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WEDGE OF Law, BOOKKEEPING
INSTINCT.
in his pocket and in 1t were the mark.
ed bills.
Work at uncovering frauds outside
ne department is even greater than
= work in the. department. Gases
OF money orders that have heen fran
qulently collected by forsinx the
payee's name are constantly Coming
70 the attention Of the inspectors.
Iney solve many Of them simply by
referring to the Postmaster or post.
masters clerk who has paid over the
money n who usually has a recol-
lection either Of the, man "a wnom
the money was actually paid or in
eases where an Identification has been
demanded Of the man who made this
Identification. >"''
h large frauds against which the
inspectors are keeping up a constant
fight are the promoters Of various
mem for mulcing the public, who
md he mails a convenient means
OF distributing their literature. The
report Of the postmaster general for
the year ending June 80 shows that
IN a single year various concerns sue.
ceeded IN profiting to the extent Of
Fully half Of this amount was obtain.
ed by persons operating In New Yorl,
state. On Mr.. Dixon and his men
falls the task of ferreting out these
men bringing them to. justice.
How successful they are Ia shown
when arrests take place like those in
the case Of the Burr brothers and the
continental wireless company that, It
10 alleged. sold in hve a bosus
stocks amounting. to SOC, 900. 900
In such instances the securing of
evidence by an inspector is a delicate
task. Pitted against him are some OF
the hrainiest rogues in the country.
me INSPECTORS closely the adver-
tisements Of dubious mail-order con-
Germs and promotion schemes and not
lnireqpently they subscribe them-
serves IN order to secure their data.
Their Investigations regarding the
concerns take them all over the world.
LAST week one man was sent to Color
400. anotner to British Columbia, both
which 1t is suspected had been can,
TALKED heavily on the actual Valuation
OF a large hole in the ground, Anoth-
er inspector went to England to look
Tor a man who. 1t Is charged. milked
several hundred small investors and
then absconded with their funds.
II a lottery is being promoted the
inspectors Immediately become pur-
chasers OF lottery tickets. Then comes
n hercuiean task Of Inducing mar,
sons who have been swindled "a tel,
ABOUT their wrongs. The man who
mas q little money to invest il a vain
creature-he thinks he knows ali
there Is to know about taking ire
or money. He boasts about ii to hii
friends until he finds that his money
IS gone. Well. the only person thai
ne tells about 1t is his wife. and he
does not tell her unless he has to.
. concern is suspected of us.
watch Of the postofnce reveals the
persons who are receiving the iitera.
ture. Then Chief inspector Dixon
sends out a form letter. "How much
did you invest? What returns were
you promised? What returns did you
get? Do You believe that you were
dealt with %honestly?" Sometimes q
Few replies are received, but In the
majority Of cases 1t is necessary to fol.
low up the letters with hard. persona,
work before any results are obtained
|. The medical concerns that are max.
ing a fortune selling sugar and waite,
or hour pills under the promises thai
they Will cure all manner of danger.
Gus diseases also come In for alter.
ton. Sometimes the nostrums tina,
are put up are positively harmful. A,
one time II was believed that there
was no way for the postoflce depart.
ment to reach these medical insti.
tutes, as they arc usually called. un.
less the literature that they sent gu,
was indecent, but It has now been es.
ttablished that where grossly mislead.
ing literature Is distributed a prosecu.
ton on the ground Of using the mail.
to defraud will he successful. Inspec,
tor Dixon says that as a result Of tn.
five convictions which have been OBJ
tanned In the last two years this elias,
Of literature has bean pretty we'll ex,
| cluded from the mailsI
Against the forwarding Of improp'
er literature there 10 continud war.
fare. Hundreds Of persons seem Il
have a mania for this sort OF thing
To find out who they are and 20 &c,
cure tho evidence necessary for thei,
arrest often means the kesnest detec'
tive work. Take for example q towl
IN tho upper part OF tho otAt6. u
which many young women receives
ter was helpless and when the inapsc
tor arrived IN the scens declared tina
Z would be impossible TO fnd the cul
prit. Uncle SANS detective said lit
tie. but went to work and collected
several Of the letters. Tho wateI
mark of the paper was identical In al
OF them.
A visit to all the stationers In tow
followed. AZ last one Wal found VIII
handled that kind Of paper and sol.
1t to just one concern. a printing a.
tablishment. Here II was learned tha
there we're three merchants who wer'
using paper Of that kind for thei
letterhQsds. The size Of the sheet
on which the letters had been writer
showed that they had been torn from
"a lsttsrhead. A visit to the three Wer
chants aud an examination Of Il