A Traveling Doctor

A TRAVELING DOCTOR

GETS A $100 NOTE FROM A SALEM FARMER

Who says He Never Signed a Note.-One of the No Cure, No Pay Medicine Men Who Didn't Cure.

In August, 1895, a man calling himself John Marshall, a physician from Ann Arbor, and who was a sort of itinerant medicine man such as travel around the country trading on the credulity of his fellow man, stopped at a farm house about two miles from Salem village and noticing that the farmer, John L. Martin, was badly crippled from rheumatism, told him that there was no need of his suffering the way he did as he could easily cure him. He represented that he was a physician. Martin told him that he had no money. He urged that he didn't want any cash, and he would charge nothing at all if he didn't cure him and if he did cure him he would take his note. Martin took his treatment but was not effected by it.

Now comes L. F. Eastman and Edgar J. Hunter, of Chicago, with a $100 joint note signed John L. Martin and Dora Martin, made out to B. F. Batchelder, and sue the same in Justice Duffy's court. They come as innocent purchasers of a note sold to them for a valuable consideration and representations that the note was all right. The note bears date of the visit of the man who said his name was Marshall.

Mr. Martin denies ever signing a note as he had not been cured but there seems to be little doubt of the signature being genuine. It seems not unlikely that Martin was fooled into signing some sort of paper. The case is in Justice Duffy's court and Cavanaugh & Wedemeyer are trying to get Martin out of paying the note. It would prove healthy for Marshall or Batchelder or whatever his name is, to show himself in the vicinity of Salem, as a number of other families had dealings with him and are in fear that some sort of notes may turn up against them. Moral - Leave traveling doctors alone.