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_ Ig, you peep “into thie“ mock: establish: ‘ment atave: 131 West Fourteen street, af ter.passing.a boy. at the entrance, ‘you ‘will find...an”old man’ named’: Zeno“ Burnham, a white-haired * individual;...very. “settled looking,” and a fellow, named Parker, en gaged in bidding,and‘nodding in the presence of the runner of the concern, Albert, Kraemer, who is to be tried ,before Mayor Cooper to-morrow for swindling a widow lady, Mrs.Mary Moore, of Twenty fourth street, in the sum of $3,073 35. This gang had an advertisement inserted in one of the dailies, offering to sell: the “elegant” furniture,. bronzes, .. paintings, ectc., of “Col. C.X. Bonner” by auction and their announcements appear every morning in the same journal,. Mrs. Moore was captured by the notice. The gang, opened a way for her approach: “She bid. The gang—particularly the notorious:Ze no Burnham—who was sent to the state prison for a like offence some years ago, bid against her, but of course the articles, which she subsequently found to be com paratively worthless, were knocked down to her. The paintings were “‘daubs,” the “bronzes” were composed of lead, the piano emitted cracked sounds, the clock did not‘even“go,” the sofas had not half the usual number of springs, and were stuffed like the chairs with shavings and seamoss. One portrait, known as the “Ancient Warrior,” appeared to have been the work of some artists whose coats of paint covered each other in thick streaks, and the material used seemed to have been mixed with soot. And these are the arti cles represented as the property of Col. GC. X. Bonner—the fair purchaser thinking they were owned by Mr. Bonner, of the Led ger. This is the lady’s sworn testimony now before Mayor Cooper, and the mayor him self is to try the case to-morrow. Burn ham, although not yet arrested, is said to be the principal in the business, Zeno merely as a bidder or stool ‘pigeon while Kraemer made the false representations which led the complainant to forget her self and offer high prices for the articles. When the case comes up Mrs. Moore's counsel intends to apply to the mayor to send for Burham and all the other alleged accomplices of Kraemer. The object of this is to show the real character of the business done by Kraemer, and expose his methods of conducting the safe, and also to reveal the sources from which he ob tains what he has designated as “elegant furniture,” “exquisite” bronzes, “superb pianos,” etc. It is said that the mayor has the power not only to revoke Kraemer’s license, but to send the proceedings to the Seep attorney for the action of that of cial. At present Kreamer is still operating at the same place by virtue of a license from Mayor Cooper. This fact has been made know to Mr. Cooper, and therefore it is thought that he should hasten his decision in the case and revoke Kraemer’s license. A well known captain of the police rooted out all the mock auctions a few years since, and they have been revived since that time. The swindles they per petrate are numerous, but their victims do not care about prosecuting them on ac count of the notoriety they would acquire from such a course, and also the loss of time they would necessarily incur.—New York Mercury.
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Elkhart Democrat
Elkhart, Indiana, US
Fri, Nov 07, 1879
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