The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-09-17
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A very ingenious trick, by which q gang of
swindlers are making money by mutilAting
national bank-notea of the denomination of
1--WE dollars, has recently come to our no.
tice. The dodge consists of making ten
bills ont Of nine, and is 80 managed That
there is but II FASTING 10 each of the
manufactured notes. The nine whole bills
are taken, and from tho right of the first
one-tenth is sliced off; from the right of
the second two-tenths; from the right of
the third three-tenths, and SO on to num-
Der nine from which nine-tenths are taken
from the right, or what amounts 10 the
same thing, one-tonth from the left. Num-
Der one is passed as ii ia, with q tenth gone
from the right; the one-tenth taken from
number one ispastod 10 the residue ofnum-
Der two, from which tw~o-tenths had been
taken; these two-tenths are made to answer
the place of the three-tenths taken from
number three, and 30 on through. Thus
nine-hye-dollar notes are completely, leav-
ng tho original number nine, with a tenth
gone from the left, as q tenth note.
1t will be seen that but a tenth is gone
from each bill, aud in q different place on
every one, and n little ingenious FASTING
makes the loss imperceptible to ordinary
observers. It is certain that large numbers
of these mutilated bills have been cireu-
lated in this city, and our readers will do
we'll TO look out for them. The rogues
who have carried out the fraud were cum
ming in selecting the denominations they
did, . Larger bills would have been more
closely scrutinized, and smaller ones would
not nave been 50 remunerative. A similar
thing was done by parties in Williamsyille,
several years ago, with ffty.dollar notes of
the International bank OF this city, but that
cheat was not 30 ~eleverly managed as this,
aud wps soon detected. The department
will not redeem u bill which bears evidence
on its face that il has been tempered with,
and we advise our friends TO scrutinize their
6ve-dollar notes closely.
Mr.. JOHN s.. CLARKE, the comedian, has
made n great hit in n play called "Among
the Breakers, y written for him some years
ago 10y Mr., John Brougham. The charac-
ter he assumes is that Of q groom named
Darlington Jones, who having obtained a
brief holiday from his master, behaves so
i%rrationally M to get completely immersed
in trouble-whence the title of the play, of
which n brief extract is given in the follow
ing from a London paper:
THE hero is the victim of many mis-
takes of identity, being claimed as her hus-
band by a woman whom he has never seen,
as their father by children of whose exis-
tenee he was not aware, as q runaway felon
by a detective in search Of prey, and, final
ly, being looked upon ne his rival in love
hy his own master. What adds TO his
misery is, that his trowsers 1T so closely,
and AFRO so tightly braced and strapped,
that he is afraid to sit down. Ont of this
nettle, danger, the actor plucks the flower
fun, to the intense qualification of the au-
dience, to whom the groom's misiortunes
are an abundant source of laughter"
The great multitude of Mr.. Olarke's
friends in this country will be reioiced to
learn hat he win soon address himself to
American audiences,