1 a or three days ago Chief of Police Burleigh,
f Waltham, learned th a nx or s *veu stringers
were m the try peddling wh ;t puj o. led lo be
1 crime, and that in c ni.ecl.un iheiew th they
w. ie ,ie. pel rating w hat was practical! a fraud,
it >e ms that tney ha i two teams and ' s . :t:i
vassing the town very thoroughly G• : g 10..a
house l boils , they would off r 11 e* tges of
vha; Hi y cal ed readme, although in order to
save t lit mse.ves fr-.m the grip .t i law, they
had labcied Idem “Perdue," Wit a every eight
packages, wh.ch they sod for Si, liier gave eigut
.as of soap 'J he vh.ef encouul red them on
ihe street, an ilwo of the men— ne on each learn
who seemed to have til * handing of the busi
ness gave tiietr i:nnn*> as Isaac G. Woroeder and
Hiram Beiding. 1 hey clamed, in response lo
the charge that they weie peddling w ithout a
licence, that they were selling go oils of their own
inamacture and that they were giving the soap
away Before the case could be presented to
Jikl.c Luce and a warrant obtained they had all
“skipped * tiie town, and numerous fami.ies are
now bewailing me fact that they have a lot of
worthless powder and light bars of poor soap
worth nil told, less than 'S> cents, to show for a
good dollar. The names of the parties, as regis
ter, and at liie Prospect House, where they stopped
w hile in Wall ham, are E. 11. Barnes. John Good
win, C. I>. Osgood, C. A. Irost, J. Malcolm, 11.
