Warrenton, April 6--?? Slick-tongued crooks duped Mrs. Henry Wilker of Warren Plains into signing a check in their favor for $250. When the Citizens Bank here refused to pay it without an order, they returned to the Wilker home where Mrs. Wilker wrote an order which released the cash to the men who departed at once.
Mrs. Wilker, according to her story told here this week, signed the check after one of the crooks had passed a handkerchief, saturated with a sense-benumbing drug, before her face and told her that if she did not buy the eye glasses which he offered, she would die within six months.
The two men drove to the Wilker home, which is off of the main road. One entered the house and the other waited in the car. Mrs. Wilker consented to have her eyes examined, ad the man was called from the automobile while the first of the rogues took his position at the rear door. Henry Wilker, who is paralyzed, was in the house when the examination was held. Death in six months was predicted by the “specialist” unless the glasses which he had were (purchased). Wilker had been inhaling fumes from a handkerchief which was handled deftly by the humbug.
A slick tongue and the drug over powered the caution which had been used in accumulating the money through the years of work, and Mrs. Wilker signed the check. When the men returned for the order, saying that the bank would not pay such a sum without it, Mrs. Wilker gladly wrote a part of her fortune away.
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Tuesday, April 7, 1925
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