Saved Their Home
It is related that Mr. R.G. Briggs, president of the
Citizens Bank, saved the home of Berry Williams, a colored man of this city,
from a slick individual who wanted them to let him have money to find gold
which he told them was under their house and that he would find for a
recompense. He agreed to produce $2,500 for $1,100, and for $1,000 he was to
produce $2,000. The papers were prepared and when they went to the bank to get
the money and Mr. Briggs found out after he had questioned them that it was a
real gold brick scheme, he tore the paper up and told the colored people it was
all a fake and merely to get their money.
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