Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1887 — The Harrow Swindle. [ARTICLE]

The Harrow Swindle.

An Illinois exchange thus describes the modus operandi of a sivindSii’g game which, in one form or another has been very extensively worked in all parts of tiie country: There lias been a gang of swindlers at work on thefarmers in the., of This state recently; selling harrows and taking the farmer in as an agent. AU of the farmers caught so fir have been cheated out of 8280. The farmer signs an order for on-e-of the bar* rows which he is to receive free of chyge. The order is printed’ on the back of a postal card. In c few days the collector of the' company comes around and presents the contract, and it reads ‘ that he h&8-6rdered one-third of b gross of harrows.