Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1915 — Smooth Magazine Graft Worked at Winamac. [ARTICLE]

Smooth Magazine Graft Worked at Winamac.

Pulaski County Democrat: It has developed the last few days, that a large number of Winamac people, mostly ladies, were fleeced by a smooth magazine agent who worked the town last fall—and if reports are true, he was not only a smooth agent but a monumental liar as well. He solicited for a club of three magazines, visiting the homes and doing most of the talking to the women. He told them, we are informed - or at least gave them to understand that the price they were to pay was SI.SO. Scores of people subscribed for the magazines on the agent’s representation, and signed the orders that he presented for signature. ' After the man had solicited the town he presented credentials at the First National Bank und offered for sale a large number of $5.50 notes that ho had secured for magazine subscriptions. Knowing nothing of his representations to tlm signers, but recognizing the signatures as bona fide, the bank purchased tho notes in the usual manner. The notes were for six months, and have just fallen due. Now it becomes apparent that instead of signing an agreement to pay SI.BO as represented by the agent, the victim in reality signed a note for $5.50. Some are paying up, while others propose to test the matter.