Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1915 — Spectacle Men Caught Several Near Roselawn Last May. [ARTICLE]

Spectacle Men Caught Several Near Roselawn Last May.

W. M. Brown was down from near Roselawn Saturday to see what he Could learn about the spectacle men who had victimized Fred Bachman and John Moore recently. (Mr. Blown says that the same men were at Roselawn last May )and worked in that territory, catching a fair string of suckers. Mr. prown w4® rented an- electrical machine for the teatmemt of rheumaitism. His advance payment was only $7.50. A neighbor, William Laßanta, was Caught for s22*>o. There were other victims but all felt so chagrined at the affair that they kept it a secret In this they made a mistake, which they are now able to realize, for had they related their experiences at the time they would have protected others .from the Same fraud and might have aided in capturing the rascals.