Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1914 — Another Imposter. [ARTICLE]

Another Imposter.

A red-headed young woman was here Friday making the rounds of the business part of town with a subscription paper to secure money to pay her way through school. The heading on the paper stated that she was deaf and dumb and that- she was a resident of this county. When she called at the Democrat Office she was asked, by means of a written message. in what part of the county she lived. She wrote that her home was at Clark's Station. The man to whom she was “talking” told her that there is no sucli station in Pulaski county. She declared that there is, and that there is a store and postoffice there. When asked for the name of the postmaster she hurriedly wrote “Mr. Weaver. then quickly gathered up her paper and left the office. She was not called back, as appearances seemed to indicate that she was an imposter.

It has since developed, however, that a young woman answering about the same description worked a similar game at Rochester. There she told inquirers that she lived “south of Kewanna.” Rochester officers got on her track, found that she could hear and talk, and she was given, a few minutes to get out of town. The subscription paper that she had in this office contained only four or five names, and it is said that her collections here were vary small. —Pulaski County Democrat. The same woman, undoubtedly, visited Rensselaer a few months ago and picked up a large number of quarters and dimes. She claimed then to be a resident of Barkley tp., Jasper county, and gave the name of a family quite well known there. Her answers to questions put were seemingly straight, and we fell for a quarter with all the other suckers she had on her paper, which Included,, most of the business men of ><€u«selaer.