HOW MILLIONAIRES ARE MADE
" GET-RICH-QUICK " BRIGADE. FLEECING THE PUBLIC. By Cable.—Pres= Association. —Copyright. New York, November 22. Charged with sellinsr oil and mining stocks through the illegal use of the uost ollice mails. Sheldon Burr, Eugene Burr, and Frank Tobey, president, secretary. and vice-president respectively of Burr Brothers and Company, New \ork. were arrested after a raid, in which the Postmaster-General, Mr. Hitchcock, participated. Charles Vair.'han, director of the tireless Telegraph and Telephone Company, was arrested after a second raid in connection with the frauds. Mr. Hitchcock estimates that jet-rich-quick concerns since 1003 have fleeced the public of £20,000,000. The Burr case involves £8,000,000.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 193, 24 November 1910, Page 5
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104HOW MILLIONAIRES ARE MADE Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 193, 24 November 1910, Page 5
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