The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-24
FRAUD THE SAME
 BUT GUISES VARY
Those Spanish Prisoner Letters
 To James Delaney.
Bedding Man Gets One From a South American City Sanford School Entertain ment at the Enlarged Gym Grand List of S10O, ,0OO.

Grand List of O,0OO.
 Reddings Dec. 524-of. the three the last three years by James De- fancy of Lonetown, one was ostengjbly written from Madrid, one from Bar celona and the third from Santander and the postmarks indicated that they had actually been mailed at these places Here is the Madrid letter: Madrid, t2-4-910 My Dear Sir:
 I am Imprisoned in. this city and Knowing your honesty and discretion by references that I have had, I beg to beseech you herewith whether you wants to come here to take away my equipa ges seizure in order to seize upon a trunk containing a secret in which I have hidden an document i1l- dispensable to you to come in posses sion of 3300OO dollars that I have in the Limited States.
 As reward, I will yield you the third part of the aforesaid sum.
 Fearful that this letter don't arrive at your hands I will wait your an swer, and then T will say you my se- cret with every detail and to suscribe with my name
 As here is "a newspaper that publish all the cablegrams whose addresses are unknown which it is allowed to me to read. and as I can not receive here in the gaol your reply, you: must sendl an cablegram to the address in dicated at the end. s5Notwithstand{ng, your cable not reach. to me, this will be- the sufficient to know that you accept my proposition
 Awaiting eagerly to read your misive Truly suscribe
 ". ex-Banker IN sE3s
 Above all, please. to answer me by cabIegram but not by letter as fo1- 1owing:. ANTON CAIRO Barbieri Madrid
 Awaiting Xmas
 Tn each letter the tale of how the writer came to. be imprisoned is 9 diff. ferent one and the amount of the fortune also varies. The Barcelona letter makes the sum $185, 1000 and the Santander letter $4S0, 900. Tn the for mer the prisoner is victim of polf- cal persecution originating from the enmity of General Weyler and in the latter a Russian banker who has ab- seconded with five million roubles, equivalent to $20O, 900. The pretended banker incIoses as a confirmation of his story what purports to be a news paper clipping which gives an account of the five million dedication, the fu- gitive's arrest in London at the in stance of the Spanish ambassador for having killed a. man in Spain where he had been in hiding and following the arrest the prisoners return to Spain to await trial for homicide. The newspaper clipping is undoubtedly boz gus like those which the green goods'' men used to send out in order~to con vince their intended victims that the money they were offering was printed
 
 States treasury department. These fraudulent clippings so closely re- produced the superficial characteristics of New York journals that almost any one would accept them as genuine. Another Bedding man, John H. Ma lone, received a Spanish Prisoner" letter several months ago, only in his case it came from some South Ameri- can city which he does not now recall. MT. Malone, like MT. Delaney, did not bite at the golden bait and conse- quent1y was not bitten.
 An entertainment well varied and one in which there were no dull mo- ments was that given at the Sanford school pupils and some of the fnstruc- tors. The affair was in a sense dedi- oatory of the new stage annex and had as it's main features the cantata entitled ''The Walrus and the Car penter' and a farcica1 play1et called '.The Bachelors C1ub.'' Twenty-Five of the boys sang in the former and gave it a meIodious and agreeable presentation. In the other sketch Prof. Dibb1e impersonted an elderly female. and Tracy Andrews, a, young wife, both characters being very amusingly done. Violin solos by Miss |Birdsye, musical instructor of the EschooI, and log chopping contest on the stage were among the other fea-- lures Of the program. It is probable that the entertainment will soon be repeated for the benefit of the Bedding Ridge fire department.
 The collection of historical relics at Putnam Park is soon to be stored in Ecabinets which have been ordered by the park commission for that purpose. The articles have heretofore been open to handling we'll as inspection and it is believed that quite numDer were carried off by visitors whose passion for souvenirs outweighed their scrup1es. The commission hope to provide, within a year or two, new museum building for the better hous- ing and preservation of the collection which is already a fairly large and interesting one and can doubtless be materially increased with a little ef- fort.
 Mrs. Hannah M. DonnelIy died last Saturday morning at the home of her