New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-08


devised saving clause the mail order snd OF unorunates can
not be successfully prosecuted There advisory
operating headed by cxpostoc Inspector which makes
good thing advising this class OF bunco operators how to
business and still keep safely within that twilight where the
criminal law cannot reach But where criminal prosecution
would uncertain the Posocc Department and swift
1t needs be swift protect the Widow oncss (Which OF
the chief purposes the Solicitors office, widely advertis
ing SelHcpe will take several hundred dollars month from
hi, victims such precious enterprise recently interrupted
was reapnq an average four hundred dollars per month from
he sale of samples and Instructions and paying out for COM
plctcd and satisfactory work OF dollars monthly
To return Mr. Sylvester O. Smith the postocc Inspector
goes over the books of that dheaened and nonrc-
ant practitioner gets his material and sends his report to the
Postoe Department. Where there special need for haste he
may indicate the Solicitor go the facts at and
may order the See League mail stopped by telegraph
Or he may follow the usual method OF citing General Man
Smith appear and show why fraud order should not
issued against him. If he fails show the SetfeP
Leaguers almost invariably do fail fraud order issued against
him which operates automatically the delivery OF ali letters
and the cashng of all money orders him. and to return such
mail TO the sender marked Fraudulent Thus the Widow Jones'
back Ohio gets that her 81 90 safe and recoverable
application her local postmaster Its bad enough tor her as
high hopes gone she has wasted her time and POSTAGE
least she have make that two dollars
by going without sugar milk in her tea.
This process has been widely and vehementy
denounced paternam through the mouths OF lawyers highly
paid y crooks defend this OF scheme against inter
perhaps very desperate and destructive evil the highly
paid lawyers say that the should intercept the Widow
(oness money on its course to Help Smith pocket but
TESS that unable Smith has his day court three
them fact since he is cited to show rule before
the issued Exceptions points of fact be taken
and the findings had and finally he appeal to
Usually the faker demands hearing but when he
finds how complete the prepared against him by the Soc
office experts he wisely quits right there Since the ncum
bency of Judge W. H. Lamar the present Solicitor out of
hundreds contested fraud orders only application to the
order the Pooce Department has
been successful.
Sometimes there need of swift in the
mail order OPERATOR who indicted and sent to
jail pending trial for fraudulent of the mails Meantime his
mail not having stopped by a fraud order accommodating
lin the local postoce The crook for bondsman whom
he said:
You bail me out that get my mail and III be all right
There be bunch of letters there full Of and that
for my defence
This ae scheme the Of the local postmaster
who Immediately the Postoce Department Washing
ton urging quick fraud order issued and the
prisoner has yet got that moneycd mail wherewh for
his defence.
No very close be made of the of money
saved to the poor and gubc of the country yearly this branch
of paternastic endeavor But in 70 when mail order fakery
height and the mail order whose advertising
devoted mainly these sindes crowded the mails
that the volume of detected fake business ST.
This the aggregate business the books OF those
those which escaped and those bodene enterprises which,
without being povaby criminal still for
paid should think 5000 600 600 year would be under
Of the svndng mail order business Last
year Judge Lamar who has been the active
of svnders that the Department has had the records of
business by arrested for misuse OF the mails has OWN
died to SIS 4000 600.
OF the making of many schemes of the mail order variety
there is no end and truly remarkable specimens drift
the Solicitors Office close their against the blank
wall of fraud order it, for example conceivable that
would the advertise instruction by mail flying?
There was such man; Of them fact and plenty of
papers ready and tor their patiently raudu
The OConnor Corporation of Chicago and
its fellow fake the Bankers Underwriters Association
They have passed of the mails and of existence But
while they lasted they did lively business teaching aeronauts by
the correspondence method and selling stock the Alaskan Aerial
Transportation Co. for mail freight and passengersl And
am told comparatively plausible and reasonable trade Of
selling gold bricks from the H. s. Treasury Department anguishc
because the public is getting wise!