The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-07
SW|NDLER USING FAKE STATIONERY MAKES BIC HAUL Police Search for Man Who Ordered Groceries By
 the Wholesale. ASSUMED NAME OF
 PROMINENT DEALER Claimed Shipment at Rail- road Station-Loot May
 Reach Thousands

Manufacturing duplicate business | letter heads of prominent Bridgeport
 merchants, and impersonating the diff ferent heads of the concerns, a clev- CT swindler, as a result of his entens-
 i've operations in this city, is believed
 to have victimized wholesale houses throughout the country of thousands | of dollars worth of goods and mer- chandise.
 The magnitude of his swindling- the method of which stamps him as a crook of exceeding -eunning-has not as yet been determined by the po- lice.
 It has just been learned that he swindled the w. A. Taylor Co.,, whole sale importers of olive oil, of a quan- tity of goods, the retail value of which is about $25O.
 The swind1er in some manner pro- cured a copy of the business letter paper of the Eugene L. Sullivan Co.,, in East Main street, at Jane street. He had copies printed and wrote to the New. York Olive Oil Co. for quotations on its product. The prices were mailed him at the address given on his letter head, 1915 Main street" He then ordered quantities of the oil to be sent him in half ga1len and gal lon cans, to be delivered to him at the local railroad yard. The goods were delivered to a teamster now under arrest, pending Ddt dtective Ho1brook's investigation. named John Noonan, who resides in the South End
 Dofora cardip0 tho onodS~Mr Cv11li- vans rating was looked up in mer- cantile directory, which fails to give the address of most of the big con cerns in this city, merely listing them under the name, Bridgeport. When his rating was found to be high, the goods were of course immediately shipped. /
 A number of bills for the goods were sent to the lodging house at 615 Main Street, but a check was never forthcoming, with the result that the bill finally reached the hands of tho real MT. Sullivan at Jane and East Main streets. Sr
 He informed the New York con- cern of their error and an investiga- ton unearthed the fact that they had been duped. It was learned at the lodging house where the swindler had hired room, that he never slept there, telling the landlady that owing to the great press of his business he had>been out of town, calling merely to receive his mail, which ranged from 10 to 20 letters a day.
 The much sought individual is de- scribed as slight built, dark com plexioned man, dressed in the height of fashion, carrying a cane and hav- ing every appearance of culture and refinement. Glib of tongue. he so fm- pressed his landlady that she thought him a future magnate.
 The police are at a loss to under stand how he disposed of the goods which he received and in the instance of the olive oil case the arrest of Noo- nan proved of no help. as the team ster asserts he cannot remember to whom he\ delivered the goods after taking them from the freight house.
 A canvass of the business houses will be made in an effort to ascertain if they have been receiving bills for goods which they never ordered.
 Ambrose Bowling, the Boston repre- sentative of the W. A. Taylor Co.,, who was sent here to ravel the fraud, found on visiting the lodging house that the supposed: Sullivan had de- parted some weeks ago. It was then he appealed to the police. The author ities state, that tho olive oil swindle occurred last July, and inasmuch as 1t has taken nearly four months to 'e"-n of this one case, they fear others may momentarily be. brought to light.