Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1874 — Another Watch Swindle. [ARTICLE]

Another Watch Swindle.

A young gentleman of this city has shown us a letter purporting to come from Howard & Co., importers and manufacturers of watches, jewelry and silverware, ISS South Clark street, Chicago, which read? as follows: The watch received from you Jan. 15 is ready for delivery. Yon were correct when yon stated it could not be repaired outside of our house. We have had great difficulty with it but it is now in thorough order, and we warrant it to keep correct time for five years. You wrote the watch was found, and desired to know the worth. It is a very valuable time-piece, and must have cost at least SSOO. It Is now worth S4OO, and for any one desiring a valuable time-keeper is really cheap at first cost. The cost of repairs is summed up, amounting to $20.25, and the gentleman requested to remit the amount by express and have the watch sent to him; but his eyes are sharp enough to see through the trick. The object was to make the gen. tleman believe his name has gotten mixed up with some one who has sent a valuable watch for repairs, get him to remit the amount charged in the bill, and swindle him out of the sum remitted. Doubtless this is one of the hundreds of transcripts of a thieving letter that has been sent broadcast through the land. Of course no watch Comes, and as the person ttending the money is trying to obtain goods under false pretenses he has to “ grhr and bear” his loss.—Pan's Kentuckian.