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THE KURAR NEW-YORKER 
March 1, 
Live Stock and Dairy 
AN EXPERIENCE WITH HORSE GYPS. 
I saw the item from J. T., New Jersey, 
under Publisher’s Desk recently and 
would say to him and all others by no 
means go to New York to buy horses 
in answer to advertisements you see in 
the daily papers, unless you know they 
are reliable. This recalls an experi¬ 
ence I had in New York in May, 1911. 
The remarkable part was that I got my 
money back, which seldom happens. I 
was in need of a cheap pair of farm 
horses, so I followed up advertise¬ 
ments in the New York Sunday World 
for several weeks and picked out some 
which looked reliable. I enclose here¬ 
with one that I called on first. They 
had a lot of horses in and some good 
ones. Mr. Morgan met me at the door. 
He asked me what kind of a team I 
wanted and where they were to go. I 
told him I wanted to ship them by 
boat up the Hudson River about 80 
miles. He showed me a pair of horses 
that I liked very much. He asked $200 
for them, and guaranteed them to work 
in all harness, and all right, and if not 
as recommended I could return them 
in one week and get my money back. 
A new halter and new blanket went 
with each horse. Morgan said he 
would send a man to help me down to 
the boat with them. I told him I 
wanted to see another pair, and if I 
could not get better suited I would 
come back next day, but Morgan in¬ 
sisted on selling me the team. Then 
he said: “What will you give for the 
pair? Make me an offer. I want to 
sell.” I said I would give $150 for 
them and not look any further. Hq 
hesitated a little and then said: “Well, 
I am going to sell you them. When do 
you want to take them?” I answered 
that I would come for them tomorrow 
noon. “All right, I will send a man 
down with you to the boat.” I paid 
him a deposit of $5 on them and went 
away. 
The next morning I dropped in at 
Fiss, Doerr & Carroll’s place on 24th 
street and met a man there who holds 
a high position in the Police Depart¬ 
ment of the city, with whom I was ac¬ 
quainted. He was buying horses for the 
city. We had a short chat and he 
asked me if I was buying horses. I 
told him that I had bought a pair over 
on the West Side, and was going to 
take them home that day. At about 
II o’clock I called again on Morgan. 
We went into the office and he said: 
“Well, you came for the horses.” I 
said yes. He sat down at his desk and 
said: “There is $145 balance on the 
horses.” I said yes. He took paper and 
began writing a receipt. I counted out 
the money. He took the money and 
counted it and said that it was all right, 
and put it in his pocket, and said: 
“Why don’t you buy a better pair?” I 
said: “I guess they will suit me.” 
“Well those horses will not work.” 
I realized then that I was in with 
crooks. I said: "That is different from 
what you talked yesterday; then you 
don’t guarantee them?” “No guarantee 
whatever,” he said. It flashed through 
my mind that his game was to have me 
refuse to take them, I said: “I will 
take them just the same.” 
“Then you are willing to take them, 
no matter what they are.” He repeated 
it several times, but I said; “Yes, I will 
take them.” 
“Well,” said Morgan, “what about 
the balance?” I said: “What balance?” 
He said: “You have got to pay me $150 
each for these horses.” I said: “Pay 
me back my money.” He tore up the 
receipt which he still held in his hand, 
and said: “You will get no money; not 
a red cent. You can’t play that game 
on me; you won’t get a penny back.” 
Just then a stableman made his ap¬ 
pearance, and Morgan said to him: 
“Wasn’t he to pay $150 each for those 
horses?” The stableman said: “Yes, 
he was.” I walked out of the office and 
said no more. As 1 walked down the 
street my first thought was to speak to 
a policeman, but on second thought I 
would not trust any policeman in that 
neighborhood. I started for police 
headquarters to make my statement. I 
realized I had no show whatever. I had 
nothing to show that I had paid Mor¬ 
gan anything, and I knew he could 
prove anything he liked by his men. 
I decided to call on the man with whom 
I was talking in the morning in Fiss, 
Doerr & Carroll’s and take his advice. 
I told my story t« him. He said: “Go 
to police headquarters and get on rec¬ 
ord at once, and see what you can do.” 
As he had an important engagement on 
hand he could not go with me, but said 
he would vouch for me. I left him, 
and as I was going I thought of a 
friend of mine whom I had visited the 
night before. I told him my trouble 
and he went along with me to police 
headquarters. 
They could do nothing for me there, 
but sent me to the precinct in that 
neighborhood, as they were all ac¬ 
quainted over in that section. I stated 
my case to them and also mentioned the 
name of the man with whom I was ac¬ 
quainted, and told them that he would 
vouch for me. They looked up the 
law and read it and said it was a case 
of grand larceny. With two detectives 
in citizen’s clothes we started for the 
place. When near the place my friend 
and I went alone to the stable. Morgan 
was not at the stable, but a stableman 
called him up on the ’phone. I took the 
’phone; a man answered who claimed to 
be a partner. He said he would come 
over. I told him I wanted Morgan, as 
I did the business with him and wanted 
to get the matter adjusted in some way, 
as I wanted to leave town. He said 
they would come over. Soon two men 
drove up to the office who claimed to be 
partners with Morgan. They began 
talking about the deal and soon Morgan 
came. I said to him: “I have to go 
home, and I want to settle this matter 
in some shape at once.” He said : 
“Well, you will get no money; you may 
as well get that idea out of your head. 
We don’t refund any money on horses.” 
I said: “What will you do?” And he 
said: “I will give you one horse for 
the money.” I said: “Show me the 
best horse you will give me for the 
money.” We went into the stable, all 
but my friend; he went out. Morgan 
showed me an old skate that I would 
not bring home at any price. Of course 
this did not suit me. I had no inten¬ 
tion of taking any. I simply wanted to 
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