Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-04-22

victims, ana after nav1ng made good impression will d. sappear for few days. When they return 1t will be with the in- formation that brother, sister or othey relative has died suddenly in some re- mote place, and, it being after banking hours, would the victim loan sufficient money until the next day so that the body could be brought on to this city? On many occasions the money is ad- vanced, and the victim sees the last of his charitable loan when the borrower leaves his house or office.
 In other cases the bogus bereaved persons beg for enough to bury the corpse from door to door, and generally tell of a sick mother, crippled sister, etc., to excite the sympathies of the householders.
 The poor, ,emigrant IS not forgotten by the swindlef. Every device is tried to fleece him out of the few dollars he has brought with him to his new home. In some cases they are coaxed to give up small sums of money on the pretense of procuring employment. The s5arpers get their money and then send them to some factory in the suburbs, where the emigrants are told positions are open for them. On application at the place mentioned, the parties in charge say that they do not need any hands, and the emigrants have to return to Castle Garden minus their travelling expenses.
 Emigrants intending to go inland arc also imposed upon by these sharks, who give them rolls of copper coin in ex- change for our paper money or the gold coin of European countries. They dupe l their victims by gold piece put on top of each roll, which generally contains English corpers.
 1 The "bOgus Custom House officer" is another swindle which is carried on to a great extent. Ii consists in the as- sumption of the duties and rights of Custom House officers by number of rascals, who, to work their ends more easily, wear bogus badges, precise mi tadons Of those worn by tie regular in- l spectors They follow an unsuspecting passenger who may be leaving tEo ship with some small package which has es- caped the attention of the regular Gus tom House officer, and when he IS clear of the dock the swindler approaches him and demands to know what he has got | If objection is made he shows his badge This scares the would-be smugglcr; the goods are delivered up and that is the last heard of them. Tie passenger claims them at the Custom House, but to no purpose.
 Among the many mean swindlers are parties who offer employment to poor men in other cities, especially in the South, at good wages, on condition that they pay down small sum of money. In all cases when the time for departure comes the swindler has vanished, and some idea of the suffsrings entailed upon the victims may be formed from the fact that many of them had broken mp their humble homes and laid out their little means in purchasing neces- saries for the voyage
 The bogus-insurance swindler is 8 very captivating gentleman, who carries about with him blank insurance policies prepared with the name of some ficti- tious insurance company, and who calls
 ,n householaers and proprietors ot stores offering to insure them on 6 slnal. premium.
 The "checl raiser" is well known, and his business is very extensive. He lO Sttl d dluOuub OI SOOlE to merchant, getting the latter's check in return. Immediately the dollars are raised from hundreds to thousands, and the swindler collects his money, in many instances without trouble.
 Another game IS for the sharper tc visit merchants stores, represent him self as merchant from another city, or. der large amount of goods and then have check for $100 or so cashed by the smiling victim.
 Many other swindles could be men toned, among them the "mock auc tion," bogus mine," etc., but of latt the authorities have taken the matter il hand, and the work is attended witt great risk, so much so, indeed, that il almost every case of the kind the swin .iler is brought to justice.-N'ea0 Yogl
 Herald