Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1915 — Winamac Women Worked By Fraudulent Magazine Solicitor. [ARTICLE]

Winamac Women Worked By Fraudulent Magazine Solicitor.

Winaiftac Democrat-Journal. Last August there appeared in Winamac a young man, who went from house to house soliciting subscriptions for several magazines. He offered four magazines for a period of six months for the sum of 75 cents, and when an order was taken he stated to the purchaser, (nearly all of whom were women) that he did not want any cash, but that a collector would follow and collect the 75 cents. He merely asked the lady to sign a blank supposed to be an order for -publications and an agreement to pay the required 76 cents. Last Monday about 30 or 40 men hereabouts received notices from the First National Bank of Winamac stating that a note for $5.50 signed by the man’s wife was due at the bank. The parties receiving such* notices naturally made inquiries aad learned that the bank actually did hold promissory notes, made out for six months each, and signed by the man's wife, for $5.50 each and due Feb. 1, 1915. The bank had " purchased the notes at a discount from the alleged magazine man last summer. Just how the grafter succeeded in getting the women’s names to the fraudulent notes is not known. All the ladies who signed the paper for the agent, stated that there was nothing at' all thereon which would resemble a note in any way. The grafter may have used a carbon paper to obtain impressions of th§ signatures, but at any rate, one fact is certain, and that is that .the bank holds the notes bearing the signatures of the women, and the respective husbands will probably have to “make good.”