Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 277, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1912 — BEWARE OF SHORT CHANGE SWINDLERS [ARTICLE]

BEWARE OF SHORT CHANGE SWINDLERS

Merchants Should Also Be On the Lookout For Fellows Who Present » Forged Checks. This is the time of the year when forgers and short change men operate. Rensselaer merchants should be on the lookout and if any stranger with a check puts in an appearance, make him prove that it is genuine before cashing it. Here is the way the short change game was worked in Lafayette Monday: Two strangers worked the change racket at the Kimmel and Herbert book afternoon shortly before 4 o’clock and secured $9.65. One of the men made a purchase that amounted to 35 cents and handed the clerk a $lO bill. After she had given him the change, the man told hei to never mind changing the bill and he ’handed her 35 cents. Just then an accomplice rushed 'in and wanted to buy a lead pencil. He was in a hurry and the clerk, handing back the $lO T>ill that had been given to her by the first man, turned to wait on the man who wanted the pencil. The pencil did not suit, but it gave the man with the $9.65 a chance to slip out of the store and get away.