Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1882-02-23
TRICKS OF ROGUES.
Some OF the Newest Devices for Filch.
ing the Unwary.

has been having things pretty much
his own way among the Missouri farm
ers. He is of genteel appearance and
pleasing address. He drives up to a
farmers house, and during his talk
with the farmer, lets him know what
a big business he is doing with a GER
tain wagon-tongue patent. He is on
his way home, and as he may not be
back in that county, the farmer can
have the right for the county for $3.50.
If the farmer should want it he may
just write. In few days the swind
ler's confederate happens along. He
has learned that the farmer has the
right of the county for the patent
wagon-tongue, and as he made big
thing out of it in Nebraska, he wants
to buy the right of the county for
S400. He pays $40 down to bind
the bargain. The farmer writes at
once to No. l, sending his note for
$3.50. He never hears of either Of
the men again, but his note comes up
for collection in a neighboring town
all the same.
A Philadelphia visitor i'll San Fran
cisco was walking along a quiet street
of residences about two weeks ago,
when he observed seedy-looking
youth stop eagerly and pick a shining
object from the pavement. ''What a
lucky tind." exclaimed the youth,
turning to the Philadelphian, ''she's
a $40, isn't she:" The latter eyed
the object and saw that it was gold
nugget pin, similar to small nuggets
frequently carried by miners and
others on the Pacific coast. Its Il
windfall to me, for I'm dead broke"
continued the youth, ''I'll run right
down town and sell her. "What
do You want for it:'' asked the un-
suspecting victim, who thought he
had a chance to turn an honest penny.
IL am so hard up l believe I'll take
SlO.' The hoodlum got his SO and
the Philadelphian, as lie afterward
discovered, got his penny's worth of
brass. The dodge is said to be the
most troublesome on the coast.
This is about the way man vic
timized the jackson County Bank at
Jackson, Mich. Il week Or so ago.
He was gcntlemanly in appearance,
and as he entered the bank looked as
though he wouldn't stoop to any kind
of wrong doing. He drew check
for $500 from u check-hook of a New
York bank. When he asked the
banker to forward the check for him
and collect it, the banker innocently
agreed to comply. Ina few days the
bank received from New York draft
for the amount Then the stranger,
calling to get his money, asked that
the draft be cashcd. The request
was granted. After the swindler had
disappeared the jackson bank officers
discovered that there was no such
bank in existence rs the one mention
ed i'll the check. The confidence man
had confederate in New York. who
had received the check and sent the
draft.
Shortly after the heads of the houses
along street on Champion Hill, Lon
don, had gone to their business one
day recently, a man planted a photo
graph apparatus i'll a conspicuous
place. 1t was a bright morning. In
a few moments the groups of women,
children and babies on the steps were
charming. The views, as the artist
assured his sitters, were perfect: the
charge levied for each view was low
a and cheerfullyi paid, and the clever
scamp left Champion Hill after actu-
ally registering all his customers and
t promising to bring the photographs
on day named. No photographs
B, were delivered of course; indeed, the
scamp knew nothing about photogra-
ply. The policeman whose duty il
is to look after the lambs in that part
of the metropolis not only failed tC
suspect cheat, but during the per-
formance took his stand hy the side
of favorite housemaid so that his
e handsome face might light up tht
picture.
A few days ago a well dressed maj
" entered the establishment of prom
inent pen. manufacturer in New 1orl
|, and purchased a half dozen gold pens
He gave as his residence n New Jer
sey town, and not having sufiicien
sum of money to iquidate the bill
left pawn ticket purporting to be
pledge for $500 watch as collatcra
until the following day. The strange
failing to return, the pen man visite'
the pawnbroker named on the ticket
face and learned that it was cleve
ot forgery.
ne There is young man now travelin
of around in Eastern Texas who vacci
OF mates negroes with beeswax. Fl
% charges 81 for the work, and repre-
senting that he was appointed by tn
es United States Government threaten
r that dire penalties await those VIII
ed refuse to be operated upon.
Mt
a. A bogus countryman was arreste
#. in Hartford, Conn, the other day ft
p peddling bogus honey. He had
Sc glass box of fine honey in the com
SIS for show and tin can of cheap syru
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