Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1871 — Rascally Trick on Farmers. [ARTICLE]

Rascally Trick on Farmers.

Wk have just learned a few of the outlines of one of the most diabolical acts of forgery that we have ever known to be perpetrated upon any people. The facts are about this: In the fall of 1868, a Mr. J. Ingalls, representing himself as hailing from Buchanan County, lowa, visited several of the moi t responsible farmers of this country, and represented himself to be a general agent for a combined seeder and cultivator, 'and desired to establish local agents through the country, offering as inducement a large commission, aud, strange to say, succeeded in getting several of our best farmers to agree to act as agents for the sale of his fnachine. After getting these to consent, he procures the victim to sign a contract which was executed apparently in duplicates, the victim retaining one part, which was genuine, and Ingalls the other, which was a promissory note. It seems that he had the paper so arranged and folded as to sign his own name just above a fold in the paper, and the victim Uj signing it signed a negotiable note for $250 that lay under the fold, which was so complete that it was not detected. These notes have been signed over to parlies in St. Louis, who are forcing collection;— Nme Florimt* (Mo.) Plaindealer. - Turre Is certainly one man who has walked far enough for his pension. He turned up in Albany, N. Y., the other night, on his way to Buflalo to draw his pension. He had walked all the way from Philadelphia, Pa. to that city, bains without money, and this with one lame leg.