Con Artists take note, you’ve got nothing on J. A. Fallgatter!
From the desk of Steve Willis, Former Central Library Services Program Manager of the Washington State Library: Stories about con artists were a regular feature of early Washington newspapers. Some, like this article from the August 22, 1902 issue of The Lind Leader, are more amusing than others: J.A. FALLGATTER HAS SKIPPED OUT. Proved to be a Grafter from Graftersville.– He Left Debts Galore. J.A. Fallgatter, erstwhile proprietor of the Lind Art Studio, is gone– whither deponent saith not. He…