Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-08-20
Pass Him Along.

.
 , The following article from the Ne'
 Southwest will, without doubt, be rea'
 with great interest by number oI th
 good citizens of Tucson, Inasmuch a
 they, together with their Silver Clt. brethren, have had their feet measure
 with the same regard to corns, and mos probably by the same party to whon they planked down cash to the tune Q
 one dollar per foot, corns thrown m
 The man that did Tucson professed tC
 represent a large St. Louis house. u, never failed to present his patrons wltl l his card, the address of the St. LOul; house being on one side, and hls OWL | beautiful name on the other. The nun ! ber of his victims in this place has not been learned, but Tn all probability II paid him well enough.
 Twill We unsOphisticated people oi Grant coznty never learn anything from past experiences? The latest swlndle perpetrated on us was that of the fellow who came here about a month ago, claiming that he represented a boot and shoe house. He took about two hun dred orders and measures; ln each case he required a deposit. Hls victims, without ever inquiring about hlS. stand ing or his credentials, gave him thelr money and 1t IS estimated that he car ried away over thousand dollars. Par ties who were foolish enough to give him orders have ascertained by lnqUlr- ing that the firm he claimed to represent was a myth, delusiOn, a mirage of the desert-a chimera of his thleFlng 0raln- Some of our citizens were too shreTd to be taken in by the fellow. One gentle man who was asked by him Co be meas ured, upon hls demanding an advance, looked the youthful scOundrel ln the the face and said: Do you think I'm a trout to rise to such fly Z He wilted. He tried the proprietor of the New Southwest and Herald, but fortunately for the latter he had G su-h- cient supply of shoe leather on hand, but the adventurer caught one of the typos. How carefully the youth meas ured the feet of his yictlmsi How ten derly be handled their cOrns! How pre- else in his figuresl An astronomer calculating an eclipse Or observing tine transit of Venus could not have been more precise. Half the "business' men in town were fooled. Sundry of our ladies mourn the loss of their money for shoes they will never wear. A female of easy virtue told-well, We won't say whom, but some One-that she knew tue fellow before he came here, and that he had played the game elsewhere. The circulars the fellow had printed were suggestively headed, "Hol Ne tender feetw But no one seems to have dropped on the suggestion.
 If, hereafter, our citizens shall posi- lively refuse to deal with strangers who come along, unless they give indubIta- ble evidence of the merits of their en- terprise and of their standing, this nas,y little steal will not have been without some good results. It is a notorious fact that we people of Grant county are easily gulled. From the days of TToz- ell to these present ones of the shoe measurer We have been prone Co take the word of everybody who has come along. "Omnia ignOta pro magnliico. The man We know IS uninterestng; the the one We don't know may be a capital ist, prince in disguise. Every revolv- ing moon brings to our town some ad- venturer-an insurance agent, the In- ventOr of a dry washer, the protector with other peoples money, of a daily or weekly newspaper, the founder of a mill ing company, etc, etc. The whereabouts of the shoe swIndier are unknown to h-s victims"