AMERICAN POSTAL SWINDLES.
COMPANY PROMOTERS ARRESTED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. New York, November 22. Charged with selling oil and mining stocks through tho . illegal • use of the post oflico mails, Sheldon Burr, Eugene Burr, and Frank Tobey, president, secretary, and vice-president respectively, of Burr Brothers and Company, New York, were arrested as tho result of a raid in which tiie Postmaster-General (Mr. Hitchcock) participated. Charles Vnuglian, director of the Wireless Telegraph and Telephone Company, was arrested, as tho result of a second raid, in connection with alleged frauds. Mr. Hitchcock estimates that the "get-rich-quick" concerns since 1005 fleeced tho public of twenty million pounds sterling. A sum of eight million pounds is involved in the Burr case alone.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 982, 24 November 1910, Page 5
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117AMERICAN POSTAL SWINDLES. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 982, 24 November 1910, Page 5
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