The Daily Crescent

Stealing A Man's Name.—The most unmitigated scoundrelism ever perpetrated in this country, was that committed by a man named Jonas B. Coy, who had for some time been engaged in manufacturing Pianos in Boston; but finding that those made by Chickering were much more popular than any others, he obtained a legislative enactment changing his name to Jonas Coy Chickering. By this means he was able to impose his pianos upon the public as those of the genuine Chickering. To add still more to the rascality of the proceeding, he was in the habit of selling the use of his name to other piano-forte manufacturers. The imposture fortunately was soon discovered, and the legislature, acting upon a petition of the legitimate, reconverted the spurious Mr. Chickering into plain Mr. Coy, so that he will no longer have an opportunity of humbugging the public.