Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1909 — CONFIDENCE MEN GET $3,800 [ARTICLE]

CONFIDENCE MEN GET $3,800

Sentenced In Montana For Switching Satchels on Restaurant Keeper. Butte, Nov. 9.—John Grow has been sentenced to two and a half years ip the Montana penitentiary and George Gordon Fitzgerald will spend two years in the same place. The two got $3,800 from Peter Buller who keeps a restaurant They posed as the agents of a man who wanted to distribute SIOO,OOO among the Greek poor and required Buller, as distributing agent, to post a cash bond as evidence of good faith. Cash boxes were switched on the dupe.