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FREE LUNCH FIEND.* Young Edvard Jones' Brilliant SchemeNipped in the Bad.4 /IMtrnr.l wmi Ar«uiut anl flnm onlcm forlt; tlt; U* HtMit to Uia liitcrnntloiinl Nnvl-I if;iillt;11 Coiu|aiiy nitil aIwhj-h l)rn|Hlt;lt;I Io (itl.uiK'h time.; N jav Yunit, May 10. —Ed ward R.* J.-ii.K, wlio says lio is a clerk by u. iM^tiUoo. but an author and playwright by choice, is the occupant. «I a .vll iutho detective bureau at police headquarters. He is desig-uut«d by the detectives as a free | lunch timid. He is only 2.1 years ( old.Jones’ arKjBt came about iu this way: On May 4th Mr. Fahnestock,' the general treasurer of tho Inter*1 national Navigation company at 0* Dowling Green, reported to Inspec-1 tor McLaughlin that for six weeks ' ho had been greatly annoyed by a - procession of persons calling at the 1 oflico of tho company to delivergoods which bad not been ordered by any authorized person in the employ of the company.Tho goods comprised a groat va* riety of articles, cases of wine, par*1 cels of dry goods, eatables of various kinds, and, finally, n piano. It was said by the persons attempting to deliver tho goods that they hod been ordered by a young man who represented himself as the port steward and assistant purchasing agent of the company, and after selecting the goods ho invariably ordered them sent to tho oflico of tho compauy 0. O. D.Mr. Fahnestock has a good deal of palienco but when, on May Id, a piano was dumped on tho sidewalk, ill front of the company’s ofliee in Bowling Green, and the expressman wbo brought it insisted upon Mr. Fahnestock’s signing a receipt for it, it gave out.Tho expressman declared that there were four more pianos coming, and ffiOO worth of music besides.Thon Mr. Fahnestock thought it 1 was time to invoke the aid of the police in stopping tho avalanche of , goods.Detectives Armstrong and Powl-ing woro assigned to the case, and they learned that a young man who said ho war R. N. Raleigh, the port steward and assistant purchasing n;-rent of the International Navigation company, had callod on the Automatic Piano company and bo-Iected live pianos, coating $000 each, and ordered them to be sent C. O.D. to tho office of tho company. Tho first one was to bo sent ou tho Id iust., and tho others on the four succeeding Fridays, ob they woro intonded for shipment on the steamers of tho American lino which sail from this port for Southampton on Saturdays. With tho Inst piano $G00 worth of assorted music was to bo sentIt wan also learned that this same young man lmd ordered a wagon- ' load of crackers from Naotliing Co., at No. 118, Fulton street; a wagon load of mustard from Potter. Purline Co., Nos. 170 and 178 Duano sircoI, und 00 coses of wino from Edward Hausolt, of No. 178 William street.Those are only a few of the many tradesmen who woro fooled.rffliA Antncfivcfl'rtl»tnln«A n Anflcrin.
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Saint Regis Falls Adirondack News
Saint Regis Falls, New York, US
Sat, May 27, 1893
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