The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-24

Moline avenue and rented the little house
opposite yAlonsoa sinnett a sign was
pun On the house reading Little Fanny,
the perfume teller. Barker went into
saloon on Moline avenue one day,
and made the remark to the
bartender John Mueller that he (Mueller)
was too smart man to be working in a
saloon; that he could make $1,000 during
the summer as well as not Mueller
ask ed him how and he then gave him the
story about the counterfeit money.
The pair came from Creston, Iowa. to
Rock Island. What their record is in
Creston is not known, but it win be found
out soon.
| The marshal left John Henderson and
John Nuckloff to guard the house of the
fortune teller on Thursday night, and
about four o'clock Little Fanny" went in
to another of her fainting spells.
She bled at the mouth and it
took the united exertions of the two
men to hold her. She claims that the cause
of her trouble is the presence of parasites
in her system.
She evidently tried to scare the watchers
but they did not scare. The following will
Eexplain her history and calling. being the
contents of hand bills circulated around
Moline and Rock Island lately.
tStolen, Little Fannie, the areat Egyp-
tan fortune teller. was stolen by the gyp'
sizes at the Chicago fire. She was with the
gypsies for years and learned
to be a fortune teller,
She is an orphan. her parents were
burned in the Chicago fire. She win be
for two weeks commencing June 9Th, 1889,
on Illinois avenue, three blocks west Of
the halfway house, Moline, Illinois.
She transacted quite business raking
in the dollars. But the climax reached
on Thursday evening broke the thing up,
and the corn doctor got away with the
police, the hundred dollars. and left Lit
tie Fanny" to come tumbling after. She
was released from surveillance yesterday
morning and thorough search was made
by the police for the missing corn doctor.
Officer Kittleson went TO Sterling, Officer
Cralle to Geneseo, and officer Williams to
Iowa. They all arrived home last even
ing but failed to secure any trace of the
swindling doctor.
Little Fanny" packed up her goods yes
terday preparatory to removal to Musca-
porter she stated that if the Doctor did
what was accused of him she would not
have anything more to do with him, a very
slim statement as there is no doubt but
what she handed the circus bills to Mueller
through the fence. She is very pleas
ant looking woman, and is prepossessing
in appearance. The substance of the
whole affair is about this: The police will
never find the doctor, the woman viii join
him. and the police are out 500, besides
having great sell played on them by the
thick Uranium of Mueller s. s. WALLACE,
Geo. Schott and Frank Schrader loaned the
police the $780, and the boys will have to !
stand it; but nevertheless Moline has al
hurt them in the least. 1t was not their
fault that the game was not bagged, and
they all may secure places on Pinkertons
force before long.
Marshal Henderson deserves credit and
so does the night force for the zeal with |
which they tried to bring the offenders of
the law to jnstice. OF course the affair of |
is a great joke on them, but the |
public should consider that it was not their |
fault that the extractor of corns passed |
out and away in the manner which he did. |