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appeal to the police; but it rarely happeus 
that they get any relief. Not a week passes 
without the exposure of at least one case of 
this soit in this city; but the supply of sharp¬ 
ers and dupes appears equally inexhaustible. 
Another class of the same kind is composed 
of those who offer large business opportuni¬ 
ties, requiring, of course, correspondingly 
large preliminary investments. These gen¬ 
erally go to more expense beforehand than 
the others, in the way of preparation to de¬ 
ceive their prey. To make up for this, they 
generally practice their swindles in a number 
of different places in the country, simultane¬ 
ously if possible, so that detection in one 
place will not spoil the game in another be¬ 
fore time has been allowed to make a haul. 
A typical case of this kind has just come to 
light in this city. Arthur C. Brady, an artless 
young man from the country, saw an adver¬ 
tisement in a newspaper some months ago call¬ 
ing for a young man with $500 to take charge of 
an office for a Western corporation that desired 
to establish a branch of the business in the 
East. Mr. B thought he was just the man 
who could succeed in such a position, and he 
straightway called on the advertiser, a pros¬ 
perous and eminently respectable-looking man 
of middle age who said he was James N. Lang¬ 
ley, of Murray Street. Mr. Langley unfolded 
in glowing language the nature of the business. 
He was Vice-President of the Western Union 
Mortgage and Construction Company which 
owned 100 square miles of land surrounding 
the city of Archer, Texas. He exhibited 
bonds and shares of the company, and refer¬ 
red Mr. Brady, if he had the remotest doubt 
about its staudmg, to President Max Elser of 
the Port Worth and Western Railroad and 
several other well-known personages of that 
section. Mr. Brady handed over $500 and 
Mr. Langley hired an office and put Mr. Brady 
in charge of it. The business of the com¬ 
pany was selling, colonizing and engineering 
lands in Texas. Mr. Brady’s salary was to be 
$75 per month with one per cent, commission 
on all land sales and half of one per cent, on 
all mortgage loans made in the East. Mr. 
Brady spent nearly two months in copying and 
altering forms of agreement.between the com¬ 
pany and investors. The public, however, did 
not crowd into the company’s office to sign 
tneir names to these agreements. Soon Mr.. 
Langley became solicitous about the health of 
Mr. Brady, told him he was working too hard, 
and got another man to help him to do noth¬ 
ing,after he too had deposited $250, “to secure 
the company against loss.” Mr. Brady at last 
got weary, especially as he had not received a 
cent of salary. He learned that the same game 
was being carried on at Chicago and St. Louis 
and that in neither place was any real busi¬ 
ness being transacted. The two dupes wrote 
to Mr. Langley’s references and were inform¬ 
ed that that person was probably a swindler. 
Brady demanded the return of his $500 and 
Mr. Langley paid him $25, gave him a draft 
for $50, payable by the company, one of its 
$500 bonds, and live shares, nominally worth 
$100 each. Mr. Brady found the draft, the 
bond and the shares to be worthless and now 
he and his fellow-victim are haid after 
“Langley.” 
Swindles of all the above sorts are quite com¬ 
mon. In four cases out of live people from 
the rural districts are the victims. Indeed it 
is they whom the sharpers principally seek by 
means of alluring advertisements in the 
papers or through the mails. Hence this bit 
of caution 
The “Town Site Company” which operates 
extensively in the West, cannot be called a 
swindle; although it gets thousands of dollars 
foi vastly inflated property. It is an associ¬ 
ation of men who make up their minds that a 
town should, would or could grow up at a 
certain point in a wild region towards which 
civilization is tending, or to which a rush is 
expected, contingent upon a certain event, 
such as the discovery of precious metals or 
the completion of a railroad. Under the laws 
of the United States, these men “take up” a 
certain area upon which to build a town, and 
proceed to put it into as presentable a shape 
as circumstances will admit, by surveying 
streets, indicating parks and reservations for 
public buildings, such as hospitals, churches, 
libraries, etc., etc., planting shade trees, and, 
perhaps building a hotel. The place having 
been plotted and the company’s arrangements 
completed, lively advertisement begins. The 
floating frontier crowd converges to the new 
spot, and a wild speculation in town lots at 
once begins. Prices are paid which have no 
relation at all to the intrinsic value of the 
property acquired, which, as yet, is worth 
next to nothing; but like wild-cat mining and 
other stocks, represents what a man is willing 
to stake on that particular card. Many of 
the towns never amount to anything, and 
the chiet if not the only gainers are the mem¬ 
bers of the “Town bite Company,” 
Cato. 
“Every Man is presumed to know the Law. 
Nine-tenths of all Litigation arises from Ig¬ 
norance of Law." 
a wife’s title to hek separate estate. 
L. S. M ., Worcester, Mass., —A woman 
owning in her own right a number of United 
States bonds, put them in her husband’s hands 
with power to collect the proceeds and rein¬ 
vest the money for her. The husband with 
the proceeds buys real estate in his own name, 
and erects buildings on it, collects the rents 
and doles out to the wife only as much as he 
pleases, as if the property were really his 
own. Can the wife compel him to put the 
property in her name? Are the laws of New 
York the same as those of Massachusetts in 
regard to this matter? 
Ans. —The laws of New York regarding the 
separate estate of married women are like 
those of Massachusetts on the same sub¬ 
ject. In both States the husband derives 
from the marital relation no authority over 
his wife’s separate estate, and if he acts as her 
agent, he cannot, without express authority, 
deal with the trust for his own benefit. In 
this State it has been decided that property 
purchased,in part, with a wife’s money, being 
claimed by the husband’s creditors, was sub¬ 
ject to the equitable claim of the wife for her 
money used in its purchase. If the wife can 
prove the facts as above alleged, she will be 
able to have the title to the property trans¬ 
ferred to her. 
FENCES IN VERMONT. 
T. C. H., Worcester, Vt. 1. I have lived 
on a hill about a mile from the main road 
between which aud my place two families 
reside. There is au open road to my house. 
We all agreed to put gates or bars across the 
road in the fall to get the fall feed. At all 
other times the road is open. A short time 
since my house was burned aud I am advised 
not to build again; but to turn the farm into 
pasture. Can I put a fence, jbars or a gate 
across the road on my line? 2. A aud B own 
arijoiuiug farms on which there is an abund¬ 
ance of stones. A proposes to build a stone 
wall six feet wide at the bottom and four feet 
high for a division fence; B will put up a wire 
fence for his share. Should A build the wall 
on his own land or on the division line? 
(McDonnell us. Pittsfield, etc., R. R. Co., 115 
Mass , 5t>4; Thayer us. Arnold, 4 Mete. 589; 
Bronson vs. Coffin, 108 Mass., 175), that the 
farmer is responsible if his animals escape 
whil6 under his control in the highway aud 
enter an unfeuced lot aoutting thereon, with¬ 
out the knowledge and consent of the owner 
thereof. Where the farmer is not bound by 
prescription, agreement or assignment to 
maintain a division fence, he may sustain an 
action against the owner of cattle belonging 
to au adjoining neighbor, if they trespass on 
his land through the division fence. 
W, M. F., Belleville, Texas .— A widow 
having children buys a piece of land, giving 
in payment two notes of $400 each. She pays 
$200 on one of the notes and her brother pays 
the other in full; then she marries again, and 
about six months afterward her brother 
makes her a present of the note he had paid. 
She has one child by her second husband 
who pays the $200 due on the first note, dur¬ 
ing her life-time. She dies, leaving no will; 
what interest has her second husband in the 
land she had purchased for those two notes? 
Ans. —He has a life interest, by courtesY’, 
on the whole property, besides a personal in¬ 
terest of $200 in the estate. 
T. G. M., Newark, N. J .— In New York 
State does the property, real and personal, of 
a married woman on her death go to her hus¬ 
band, she having a husband and daughter 
surviving her, or does it go to the daughter, 
the mother having died intestate? 
Ans' —In this State a husband whose wife 
dies intestate leaving a child by him, inherits 
one third of her personal property and has a 
life tenautcy (by courtesy) in her leal estate. 
The rest of her personal property and the fee 
of the realty go to the daughter. 
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Ans. 1. Yes 2. On the division line; 
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LIABILITY IN A LIVE-STOCK INSURANCE 
COMPANY. 
T. L. H., Chester, Pa. —A company for 
the insurance of horses has been started in 
Fhi.adelphia on the mutual plan. To become 
a member one has to pay an entrance fee of 
three per cent, on the value of the auimal 
insured. The losses are paid by levying an 
assessment on the members, according to the 
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and if this provides that each shall pay his 
own assessment without being liable for that 
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L. S. M., Worcester, Mass. —In this State 
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Ans. —In Massachusetts the obligation of a 
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the adjoining field. If he turns his cattle into 
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