Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-07-03

| go OIL in an ordinary way. If the sucker
has gone up street, you go down half a
block or so, and then cross over. You've
taken particular notice of his features
and dress, so that you can't mistake your
man AS you go down, you look at q
list OF national banks you always
carry In your pocket, and get the
bank in the suckers town.
When you get on the other side of
the street you walk up briskly, keeping
your eyes sharp. on the sucker all the
time, You pass him, and when you get
about half a block above him you cross
over and walk down street and meet him.
| When you come up to him you stop all
OF sudden; then you seize him by the
hand, which you shake like an old friend,
and says Why, my dear Brown, I'm de
lighted to see you. How are all the folks
In BrownsvilleS' You must be particu-
lar about the last, for it's that which al
ways gets the sucker. But you mustn't
give him chance to speak yet, for you
see he don't know you-how could he
when he never set eyes on you beforeP-
and you say: Now, that's too bad; see
you don't know me. Why, / am Jones,
nephew of Ephraim Jones, cashier of the
national bank in your town Don't you
q Il
was youngster then, but | remember
you perfectly All this goes to make you
solid with the sucker; if you are the
nephew of bank cashier you must be
somebody, and il you have carried him
in your mind so long you must be
mighty clever fellow. But he is forced
to say he don't remember you, and you
think it's too bad that he should have for
gotten you so entirely. But you are de-
termined he shan't do il again, for now
you've met him once more you'll give him
cause to remember you, which you are
pretty sure TO do, but not in the way he
thinks. You ask him to take drink and
ten to one he does it, for these suckers
are nearly always ready to drink at some
body else's expense. If he goes into
bar-room with you your graft is
easy after that; if he don't, you pro-
pose cigar, and if he don't smoke
you insist it's your lunch time, and you
drag him off with you Wherever you
take him you open on him at once. You
do all the talking, for it won't do to give
him chance except to answer ques-
tions, so that you may have the office
as to his business, family, friends, and all
that, so that in little time you know
almost as much about him and the place
where he lives as he does himself Then
you get to talking about yourself, and
you always make it appear that you've
yeen wonderful lucky fellow. You
bave always made money at everything
hou put your hand to. You can't even
yuy lottery-ticket without drawing a
brize. Then sudden thought strikes
pou. You say: BY the by, I've got
ticket now that's drawn a prize of some
sort; ] must go down to the office and see
what 1t is and get the money Then you
draw out your pOcket-book, which shows
up well, and you take out the ticket and
show it to the sucker His curiosity is
excited, for he never saw anything of the
kind before. Your ticket is one in past
drawing in the Havana lottery, and not
worth Il cent, but the sucker don't see the
date and don't Tumble to it, | never
knew case where one did. Then you
say you must go to the office, and you
ask him to 60 along with you, for after
you get your money you want 10 go up
town with him and show him the sights,
The sucker always goes. Sometimes he
makes one excuse after another, but you
insist and he always goes.
"Well, you get him to our office, which
is fixed up like all the lottery places in
town which have Exchange on the show
windows. You lay your ticket down and
ask the man behind the counter, who is
the third 'pal'-I'll call him a dealer-if
that has drawn prize. The dealer says
he'll see, and he looks over list of prizes
pasted on the wall at the back of the
room, and of course behind the counter.
He's very careful about it, but at last he
says; Yes, sir, you have drawn a prize
of 1921. If you want the money I'll give
it to you, although as a rule all prizes are
cashed at our main Office in Wall street
You say of course that you will take the
money, and, opening drawer he takes
out big bunch of soft and hands you
over the amount. Then he says that, as
you are in luck, you had better take an
other ticket for the odd dollar, and de-
termine it by the dice. You agree to it,
and of course you win. By this time the
sucker is generally ready to bite, but if
he don't you go through the thing again
and win again. BY that time he is always
sure to bite. But by this time the game re-
quires large sum of money, and he puts
it up. The dealer fixes the amount by what
he thinks the sucker has. The first throw,
no matter what it is, the sucker
wins. Sometimes, if we think he has a
big pile, we let him win a second time,
but it's not often. Always the second or
third time we play him double or quits,
and ring the dice on him. that is, we
exchange the true dice which he has
been playing with for false ones, and of
course, without his knowing it. Then
we say to him that he has an excellent
chance to win, for he can lose on no
number but 2S, and it's almost impossible
he can throw it. His money is on the
counter, and so is yours. He throws and
he throws 2S, for the false dice won't
count anything else, no matter how they
fall. Then the dealer sweeps his money
into the drawer, remarking It's very sin
gular he should have thrown 28, and
plying his bad luck. Then he says:
Now, gentlemen, | would like to have
your names. We always take the names
of our patrons for reference in order that
people may know that this little gam
bling transaction is done Oh the square
He lays particular stress on gambling
and that settles the sucker. He is al
ways in a hurry to get out, and never
'squeals.' Often he begs the steerer not
to say anything about the affair, and he
always promises, of course, and, what's
l%ore, he keeps it,"
This, in brief, was the story my friend,
the banco-dealGr, late pickpocket, told
me as we sat over our brandy and water,
and | wondered that il should be possible
for any one to be despoiled by so trans
parent a swindle.
But had no reason to doubt that he
had been giving me truthful account of
his transactions. AS he went along he
had enlivened his narrative by practical
illustrations, which gave ample proof of
his sincerity 4 The surest way
to put an end to this swindle is to give
the game the widest possible publicity,
with view of cutting off the supply of
suckers. Whenever plausible, voluble
stranger forces himself upon your ac-
quaintance as an old friend from your
town whom you have forgotten, resist
his advances. If he has drawn prize in
lottery and wants you to go with him
to get the money, bid him good day,
and go off Immediately about your
business.
Nutritious Food.