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THE RURAL KEW-VOKKE11 
April 10, 
OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY. 
Another Bunch of Unpaid Obligations. 
In the last days of January, 1909, I 
loaned to E. <3. Lewis, or the Lewis Publish¬ 
ing Co. four hundred dollars (.$400) belong¬ 
ing to an old lady. I was to have a seven 
per cent first mortgage note for 10 months, 
note dated January 110, 1909. When this 
note and order came due, I sent it for 
payment to the People’s Loan and Trust 
Co. of University City. The order for pay¬ 
ment on the Trust Company was a part 
of the note. The Trust Co. kept the note 
and sent me the enclosed receipt with no 
statement whatever. Then I wrote them 
again inquiring why the note was not paid, 
telling them again it was trust funds and I 
must have it right away. In reply to my 
letter I received the one enclosed from II. 
V. Putnam saying they had used the money 
on a real estate deal, but would pay interest 
on the receipt. To this I replied I would 
send the receipt with sight draft attached. 
This went forward and they paid no atten¬ 
tion to it. The draft was made December 
28 and was returned January 18, 1910. 
I wrote to Mr. Lewis telling him just how 
I was situated: that the money was not my 
own but belonged to an old lady 90 years 
old; at almost any time I might be.called 
on for some of this money. If I had to 
make this good right away it would take 
our little home. 1 begged him to send me 
the money and save me all the trouble, as 
it made me sick to think he could treat a 
man who had been a friend to him as I 
had. 
I come to you as friends to help a poor 
old soldier out of this awful trouble, as 
my health is not very good and I have 
no money to go to St. Louis to fight, and 
perhaps get iu prison before I get out of 
town. 
How T came to give Lewis this woman's 
money is more than I can tell. Now my 
only hope is in you, as 1 have done all I 
can. Lewis has not replied to one of my 
entreaties. lie simply keeps the money. 
If you think you can get the money, 'for 
God's sake do it. subscriber. 
The advertisement that caught this 
)!d soldier has a provision to the effect 
that at maturity the proceeds of the note 
could be turned over for Trust Com¬ 
pany stock or Lewis Publishing Com¬ 
pany stock, or have the note paid in full 
in cash. In December they wrote him 
to forward note and check would be 
sent him, but when he sent it in a 
business way accompanied by draft, pay¬ 
ment was refused. In all we have the 
following claims now for collecting 
against Lewis and his various schemes: 
Dr. F. A. B., Indiana. U. S. Fibre Stopper 
Co., HO shares. 
Mrs. M. H., New York, People’s U. S. 
Bank, $100. 
J. H. T., Wyomiug, U. S. Fibre Stopper 
Co., $5.00. . „ . 
D. L. L., Tennessee, Lewis Publishing 
Co.. $225.00. „ . 
Mrs. A. B., New York, People’s Savings 
Trust Co., $25.00. 
L. M. S., Michigan, People’s Savings Trust 
Co., $50.00. „ , 
.T. S., Connecticut, People’s L. S. Bank, 
$25.00. „ , 
E. J. S., Connecticut, People's U. S. Bank, 
$5.00. , TT „ 
G. E. E., Pennsylvania, People s U. S. 
Bank, $20.00. „ , , _ 
Mrs. G. J. G., New York, People’s U. S. 
Bank, $25.00. _ , , „ . 
E. A. W„ Nebraska, People’s Savings 
Trust Co., $1,272.00. . 
E. O. W., Nebraska, People’s Savings 
Trust Co., $320.00. 
r H. C., New York, Lewis Pub. Co., 
$ 12 . 00 . 
J. It. O., New York, Interim Receipt, 
~.T. L„ New York, Interim Receipt, $300.00. 
A. D. D., New Mexico, trustee note, 
$3,000.00. „ , , tt c 
Mrs. G. L. W., New York, People s U. S. 
IUK, .Tli.OU. _ . , _ „ _ , 
M. a. I’., New York, People s U. S. Bank, 
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ank, 
$ 1 . 00 . 
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$5.00. 
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ank. 
$ 6 . 00 . 
Mrs. 
F. C. 
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1 B. M., New York, Trustee note—Peo- 
.e’s U. S. Bank, $100.00. TT 
\ G. M., Massachusetts, People s U. S. 
Mrs. A. 11., New York, People’s Savings 
Mrs. F. C. \V„ New York, People’s Sav¬ 
ings Trust Company, $25.00. . 
R. U., Pennsylvania, Lewis Publishing 
Company, note, $400.00. 
F S. R., New York, Peoples Savings 
Bank, $4.00. ^ . 
F. A. R., New York, People’s Savings 
Bank, $4.00. 
II. It. J., New York, $100.00. 
Mrs. C. R., New York, receipt for notes, 
$ 2 . 00 . 
F. C. R., New York, receipt for notes, 
$ 1 . 00 . , , 
G. C. R., New York, receipt for notes, 
$ 1 . 00 . _ , 
Mrs. II. W. B., New York, People’s Bank 
stock, $ 200 . 00 . . . , ... .. 
P. B. M., Connecticut, People s Mail 
Bank, $200.00. , „ A „ , 
G. K., Virginia, People’s Postal Bank, 
$5.00. _ , 
Mrs. T. M. B., Ohio, People’* U. S. Bank, 
$125.00. 
E. G. M., Virginia, People’s U. S. Bank, 
$500.00. 
It. F., Illinois, trustee note, $100.00. 
M. M.. Missouri, trustee note, $55.00. 
Mrs. D. L. F., New York, trustee note, 
* j r°C. S., Indiana, Trust Company, $480. 
Besides the above we have succeeded 
in getting settlements for the following 
complaints: 
V. M., Connecticut, U. S. Fibre Stopper 
Company, $22.00. 
Mrs. C. C., South Carolina, People’s 
Savings Trust Company, $25.00. 
I. O. W., Massachusetts, $15.00. 
It. It. R., Ohio, People’s U. S. Bank, $5.00. 
Mrs. S. A. It., New York, People’s Sav¬ 
ings Trust Company, $6.10. 
Mrs. A. O., North Tarry town, N. Y., 
note, $508.00. 
Mrs. E. D., North Tarrytown, N. Y., note 
$ 100 . 00 . „ „ 
E. H. II., Massachusetts, TJ. S. Fibre 
Stopper Company, claimed $10, refunded, 
$5.00. 
Mrs-. E. P., New York, $10.00. 
We have made demand on Lewis for 
the payment of each and every one of 
these claims, but have been successful 
only in the cases reported above, and 
in the most important of these cases 
only after the facts had been pub¬ 
lished. In the case of the U. S. Fibre 
Stopper Company the stock seems to 
have been sold direct under promises of 
great profits. In the case of the old 
soldier whose letter is printed above, the 
money was loaned direct on a note with 
promise to pay in full at maturity. Some 
of the other credits seem to have orig¬ 
inated in the same way. But the ma¬ 
jority of the money was originally put 
into the U. S. People’s Bank, and when 
the receiver was appointed, Lewis in¬ 
duced them to accept his note for their 
claim, and in that way he got what was 
coming to them through the receiver. 
His plan then was to exchange the notes 
for other stock in his various schemes, 
and in that way keep the money. 
It is an old trick of fake financial 
promoters to have different forms of 
so-called securities to offer their de¬ 
luded customers. When a patron be¬ 
comes suspicious or dissatisfied with 
jone security, in a great burst of appar¬ 
ent frankness and fairness, they offer 
him another stock or bond or certificate 
of some sort, in exchange for the origi¬ 
nal investment. This allays suspicions 
and fears for a while, and most im¬ 
portant of.all, it gives the promoter time 
to go ahead with his schemes. 
Lewis first sold the bank stock. Then 
he gave his notes for the stock. After 
that he traded stock in his publishing 
company, or his real estate company for 
the notes. The people who refused to 
make these exchanges had an offer to 
take Trust Company stock and those 
who accepted got an “interim receipt.” 
The two women at North Tarrytown, 
N. Y., refused all temptations to change 
the notes for anything except cash, and 
they now have their money. This old 
soldier loaned the money that he had 
in safe keeping for an old woman. He 
returned Lewis’s note on the written 
promise that a check would be sent for 
it. In return he got an “interim re¬ 
ceipt” entitling him to stock in a trust 
company later on, and not a word of 
explanation for refusing to send the 
check an promised. 
The New Mexico claim for $3,000 
is based on a note similar to 
those held by Mrs. Orton and Mrs. 
Dinsdale, and the drafts for it 
have come back through the banks 
just as theirs did. In the women’s case, 
Lewis deliberately lied and said that 
Mr. Johnson, the postmaster, demanded 
a fee for collecting the money, and 
offered that as an excuse for not pay¬ 
ing the notes. We proved conclusively 
by the papers that there was not even 
a seinblence of truth in this pretense. 
What excuse has he now for not paying 
this Texas note, which is more than a 
year overdue, and on which interest 
payments were defaulted for over three 
years? 
We want this money returned to this 
old soldier for the benefit of the old 
woman who intrusted it to his keep¬ 
ing. We want Mr. Lewis to return it. 
There is no questioii of the facts or 
the obligations any more than there 
was in the case of the North Tarrytown 
women. We have the papers to prove 
the indebtedness. And we propose to 
insist on payment. Honest women from 
all parts of the country are writing us 
that they were attracted by the League 
scheme, but that the recent facts about 
the notes published in The R. N.-Y. 
have opened their eyes. If these women 
will give a moment of serious thought 
to the contents of the Lewis papers we 
think they will see from the papers 
themselves that they are used princi¬ 
pally for the purpose of collecting this 
money from poor and confiding country 
people, and that in helping circulate 
them these good women are uncon¬ 
sciously helping Lewis to allure money 
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