Beware of Cloth Swindlers

Students in the University, and especially those in the Graduate Schools and Law School, are warned against a group of swindlers who are operating in Cambridge, and selling low-grade domestic cloths as expensive imported goods. Two of the pseudo merchants generally go around through the dormitories together, traveling in a Ford touring car. A heavily built, dark man usually carries the cloth, while one of a group of accomplices, giving a different name and card each time, sells the cloth. To disarm suspicion, they often mention the name of a well-known student as recommending them, and also speak of various Boston tailors. Though they have several times been apprehended, they have always escaped, through political drag and the size of the gang, without severe punishment. Several students have already reported being swindled, but if men are on their guard, the menace is slight.