Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1893 — THE LATEST GAME. [ARTICLE]

THE LATEST GAME.

A new swindle upon honest and unsuspecting farmers has been brought tonight, and this is the wftx the scheme is operated: Swindler No. 1 calls opon a farmer with a patent wagon tongue and informs him that, having made a big thing of it, he is on his way home, with only this county to sell. He tells the fanner that he can have ft for 8250, and If he wants it to write to him. In a few days patent right man No. 2 comes along. He has been told that the farmer has the right of the county for the patent wagon tongue, and as he has made a big thing of it in Pennsylvania, he wants to buy the right of the county, and offers the farmer 8400, and pays 810 to bind the bargain. The farmer writes to No. 1 and sends him his note for <250. He never hears of either of the> men again, but his note comes up for collection in a neighboring town, and Mr. Fanner is out 8240. —Bluffton Banner.