Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1886 — Another skin game. [ARTICLE]

Another skin game.

The "wire f uco man” is a p.tw swindler working the farmers. His modus operaudi is thus described: Lie wants the privilege of exhibiting laiswire fence stretcher mticEino to farmers in your township on your farm, and for which privilege he will build you thirty or forty rods of good f«nec tor exhibit* ion, and all that be asks of you is to boatd bim, go after the machine at~the nearest depot, and pay the charges not to exceed three dollars, for the fence all set up where you want it. In order to have all satisfactory, and as a warrant of the farmer's good intentions, Inrequires him to sign, a written contract on a postal card, which he mails io his partner, and proves to be an order for the machine, priee two hundred dollars, worth about twenty-five dollars. After the machine comes, a new man turns up with his postal order for the machine, requires the note for two hundred card. He claims to be attorney for the company, and threatens to sue in the United States court until he gets the note.