Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1895 — A Clever Swindling Scheme. [ARTICLE]

A Clever Swindling Scheme.

It's not an entirely new buncoing artifice among the thieving gentry, but llxj manner in which a wejdthy woman customer of a New York drygoods store was swindled, is entirely new to the dry goods trade. The customer mentioned went to the store and purchased a bill of goods. “ Bend it to my address," she ordered, “ and my servant will pay the bill. 1 have left money with her.” No one at the tune observed a genteel looking young man standing close by who had purchased a pair of thirty-seven cent vases and had them under ids arm. He, however, had listened to the woman customer’s order. An hour later he rang the bell of the wealthy woman’s residence and gave the vases to the servant with an order to collect $7.87. The servant paid, and the man went away. Boon after the mistress relumed and found the thirty-seven cent vases and the receipt for $7.37. Now the customer is mad, the dry goods firm is studying up the new scheme in fraud, and the police are looking for the slick young man who made $7 from a thirty-seven cent investment.