Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1894 — MR. FISHER OF INDIANA. [ARTICLE]

MR. FISHER OF INDIANA.

An Indiana man has again come tothefrdnt and achieved unenviable fame as an originator of swindling schemes. His name is Fisher and he proved to be a fisherman of soipe ability and considerable success, landing suckers with neatness and dispatch. Relying upon

the credulity/bf by a no means small Class of people who possess more cash thou discretion, he rconfidentially addressed skiHful appeals to their avaricious tendencies, knowing that the desire of so many people to get very large returns from very small investments would bring him dupes in plenty. His scheme was co-operative speculation in stocks on the New York Exchange, and he promised his customers 20 per cent, a month on sums from S2O to SIOO./ The attention of the Consolidated Stock and Petroleum Exchange, of which Fisher & Co. were members, was called to the advertisements of the booming brokers, and investigation led to most damaging disclosures. Inquiries began to pour in from all parts of the country, and after a thorough investigation by a committee of the Exchange the managers suspended Fisher & Co. for six months, and requested Postmaster Dayton not to send through the mails any more of Fisher’s circulars.