The daily sentinel., 1912-07-12
EBERS0L STATES
HESCKEME|S
No FRAUD
Local Man Suspicioned of Using Mails
to Defraud Claims Proposition.
il Straight Not Under
Arrest

E.B. Ebersol, whom a morning pub
liCatiOn claimed was being suspicion
ed for using the mails to defraud with
a scheme TO place agencies for auto
supplies. denies that his scheme is
in any manner fraudulent and that
he thought nothing of using the
mails to deprive people of their hard
earned cash.
Ebersol was formerly a local street
car conductor and Postofiice Inspect
or ID e. Frawley had word from Pu-
eblo that two boys there had been
fleeced out of $40 on his scheme. Eb-
ersol and J. NJ. Kipfer have head
quarters here for the X. f. supply
house, and it is probable that the
case against them will not be pushed.
The Pueblo Chfeftain tells of the
game worked on Pueblo lads:
When Thomas l.. Boden, Robert
Allen and Walter Van Buskirt sealed
three crisp $40 bills in an envelope
and sent it by registered mail to the
X. +. Supply company of Grand
Junction last week they were pretty
sure that they would get on the in
side of a pretty good thing. For
hadn't Mr.. Kipfler of the firm of Kip
fer & Ebersol, the managers of the
X. e. Supply house Just sent a wire
that on receipt of the $50 he would
hop right on the train for Pueblo
with three Canvassing outfits for au-
tomobile supplies, which he would
deliver to the three comrades. So
Letting orders among the money
owners of gas wagons was a good deal
better than working on a ranch OF
pitching hay in the hot sun, they felt
sure. So they awaited the arrival OF
the suave manager with the outfits.
Kipfier never arrived and the
young men finally came to the CON
clusion that they had been the vie
Tins of neat little confidence game.
Yesterday the two men, Kipfler and
Ebersol, were taken into custody at
Grand junction and will he turned
over to the u. S. authorities in Den
yer on a charge of using the mails
to defraud. The automobile supply
business was a pure myth, it is al
legged, and the money of the three
trusting young men appears to have
taken wings for good.
Boden first met Kipfer some ten
days ago an train while on his way
to Pueblo. Kipfler told some tall
stories about the great wealth that
would be on tap as soon as the auto
supply business got started, and Bo-
den thought that he was in on such
a good thing, and that it would be
mean and ungenerous not to also tell
his two friends. So he notified Allen,
who lives at Monte Vista, and Van
Buskirt, at Alamosa, to come on to
Pueblo in order to get, in on the
ground floor. AS soon as they had ar
rived a telegram was sent to the K
E. Supply company, informing the
promoter Of their Willingness to be-
come agents for the modern improve
ments that would make motoring a
thing Of Joy andidelight forever. On
the arrival of the message demanding
the advancing of the thirty ''plunks," F"
they got busy right away with the
registry department of the postoffice,
only to find that they had traded
their hard-earned greenbacks for
memberships in the easy
mark club. Boden remained in Pueb-
10 and found employment at the Min
nequa dairy, while Van Buskirt and
Allen found suitable jobs with the
sugar factory in Monte Vista.