Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 165, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1915 — $10,000 Secured by Disciples of Wallingford. [ARTICLE]

$10,000 Secured by Disciples of Wallingford.

Elizabeth J. Stockton, who resides in Montmorenci, was the dupe chosen by Allen O’Connor and A. J. O’Connor, brothers, once residents of Benton county, but now supposed to be in Chicago, and because of the circumstances attending the swindle there will be much sympathy for the woman who has been bilked out of something like SIO,OOO. The stunt was as ruthless as anything ever pulled off in the pages of fiction by J. Rufus Wallingford. The men, who represented themselves as being from Earl Park, gained the confidence of the old lady. They visited her home frequently and finally by honied words of flattery as to her business judgment and false representations as to the value of their stocks and the certainty of big dividends which would accrue to the lucky purchaser they finally succeeded in ingratiating themselves into her confidence and deliberately robbing her of thousands of dollars of cash and securities.