The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-10-05
public. The Judge gave her the max

public. The Judge give her the max
imum sentence.
A man dressed in clerical garb hav-
ing q gtlded cross suspended from his
neck resorted to the effective prac-
tee of holding up this cross before his
intended victims and blessing or q
curse was their choice for the giving
or withholding. He also had goodly
sum of money upon his person. His
sentence was only three months.
Unmasks Fraud.
A good looking young man repre-
scented himself as a deaf-mute. The
police were requested to arrest and to
search him. A letter was found upon
him sent from a New York town and
signed, Tom your Sunday school
telegram to tom, Sunday school
teacher" which happily reached Mr.
Tom and the answer came back that
the young man was not a deaf-mute
but the son Of people in comfortable
circumstances. The young man faced
by the evidence admitted his faud and
stated by word of mouth and in tears
that his pal had just left the town with
about $4,000 collected in the smaller
towns and that his receipts averaged
about $1,000 per day. The judge sus-
pended sentence and an interested per-
son furnished him with an honest job
but a few days later he skipped the
town.
A woman presented her credentials
as a captain Of a certain religious or
ganization. She was begging in the
name of the organization but admitted
later for her personal benefit. She
excused herself for a momentf stepped
out of the office, and was found short
ly after in the hall of the building
peacefully smoking cigarette.
Three women Matched conspiracy.
One worked the churches for assist
ance, another the private residences,
and the third business houses. The
| church womans husband was repre-
sented to be ill with tuberculosis while
] upon investigation he was found to be
working every day for railroad at SITE
per day The residence woman rep
, resented herself to be a deserted wife
with four children where as her hus
band was machinist, earned three
dollars per day regularly, and lived
| with and provided for his family
The business house" woman stated
that she was widow, which she was
but she had a well-patronized roomine
! house and one of her two children
! was employed as telephone operator
Investigate Fraud.
A woman appealed to a prominent
business man for help for her dying
husband. He asked her why she die
not go to the charities office. She
said she had been there but they haG
| refused to help her. He phoned al
| once and there was considerable in
| digation in his voice. The secretary
| told him that she had not been at his
| office and asked to have her sent tt
his office. In the meantime he asked
! the visitor to call at the woman's resi-
| dence to see her husband while he de
| tanned her in conversation at his office
The visitor returned and reported tha
| the dying husband was not at home
but at the stave factory. Upon receiv
ing this report, the business man will
| amusement instead of indignation re
marked, $50 the dying husband was
not at home, thank YOU
PAY person to work and he'll
| work, pay him to beg, and he'll beg.
American women yearly buy more
| han $10,00O,000 worth of milliner!
| supplies from France