Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1917 — FAKE DOCTORS WORKING HERE [ARTICLE]

FAKE DOCTORS WORKING HERE

Ask $75 for Treating Eyes of Jordan Township Farmer. A cleverly concocted scheme to extort $75 from R. A. Gillet of Barkley township last Friday was nipped in the bud. A stranger representing himself as “Dr. Prince” called on Mr. Gillet and asked him to telephone one of the banks in Rensselaer and guarantee a check for $75, which the stranger said had been given him by Mr, Gillet’s brother-in-law, Ames M. Rains, for removing two cataracts from the latter’s eyes. J. M. Rains, father of Ames, overheard the conversation and

knowing -bat his son, who is a deaf-mute, as is his wife also, was not afflicted with catarac’s, he demanded further proof and asked “Dr. Prince" if he was accompanied by the family physician. - The fake doctor saw that he was up against a snag in his plans and beat a hasty retreat, and so far nothing more has been heard of him. ; ■, The people are cautioned to beware of all persons unknown to them and representing themselves as doctors or specialists. Only last week four men representing themselves as such —and it is possible that it was one of these that visited Mr. Gillet—obtained $195 from two White county families who could ill afford the loss. The authorities should be notified at once when any of these crooks put in an appearance.