Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1901 — A NEW CROP. [ARTICLE]

A NEW CROP.

Raising Checks Proves a Profitable Industry. Wheatfield Telephone. Some smooth individual has netted himself several hundred dollars re cently by raising checks issued by B. J. Gifford orthose having authority to issue them in his interest. His checks are all printed on tinted paper and the person doing the work has used acid to remove the original figures, usually small amounts, and substituted amounts of a hundred dollars and upward. Although the action of the acid discolored the paper slightly where applied, the scheme was not detected until several hundred dollars had been obtained in this manner. It is believed the guilty parties are now far away, still it may be well enough to scrutinize very carefully any of the Gifford checks whiph may come to you.