The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1883-05-23
TRICKS FOR MONEY MAKING.
The Deceptive Ring, the NImtle Dollar,
and the Worthless NiclSle.

The glove and ring trick recently noticed
by the Sun as the latest variation upon the
old pocketbook dropping trick, has become
quite popular. There are scores of young
men practising it up town on every fine day,
in the neighborhood of the principal dry
goods stores. Women are generally the
victims They have either not read about
the innocent-looking little game or have for
gotten it, so, when they see a decently
dressed, polite, and smooth-spoken young
man pick up a kid glove, which some lady
has evidently just dropped, and pluck a
handsome ring from one of its fingers, they
envy his luck, and when he offers to sell 1t
cheaply because he needs money more than
rings, they gladly enter into his little trap.
When at home afterward they are informed
that the ring is worth only about half cent,
they are too much ashamed of their folly to
admit that they gave So for it, and just say
that they found it and the day will never
be cold enough for them to complain to the
police about it. So the young swindler is
| safe
Another rather neat trick that the shop
keepers are just beginning to suspect is al
most monopolzed by young fellow
Familiarity known by his associates as
"Sheeney." 1t requires peculiar skill in
palming coin or Tipping it into coat
sleeve. Entering store, he asks in the
politest manner the favor of silver change
dollars will do-for SIS or $40 bill, gen.
orally the latter. The storekeeper, annoyed
by his accumulation of silver and seeing that
the bill is perfectly good, gladly makes the
exchange. The young man counts his
change over under the storekeeper's nose,
and in the act of doing so causes one of the
dollars to disappear. The storekeeper sees
that bis change is short, apologies, makes it
good, and the young man accepts another
coin and the apology with courteous grace,
and goes away. That evening the shop
keeper wonders why his cash will not come
out right A few nights since "Sheeney,"
somewhat exhileIated was explaining the
trick to some of his associates in Sixth
avenue saloon, and showing them how
neatly he could work it. They gazed upon
the demonstration of his skill with admirine
envy, SO absorbed that neither he nor they
noticed stranger overlooking the proceed
ings, TALL good-looking young man, who
was about with a friend seeing the sights.
"So!" broke in the stranger. YOU'RE the
chap who played the game on me- are you ?
thought knew your face" SheeneY pro.
tested that he did not remember him, and
asked where he did business. "In the rub
Der store on Broadway, a little below Fulton
street, /" was the reply. Sheeney assured him
1t was mistake, as he had not yet worked
that part of Broadway. "No mistake about
it," insisted the young man. ~ know you
now. But it's too long past to growl about.
You did it neatly, AMI It's worth drink to
know how it was done. What will you
have 2"
The street railway companies running
bob-tail cars are again finding good many
spurious nickels in their cash boxes, and it
is pretty well understood how they are pass
ed in. There might be little comfort in
knowing that much, but for tic fact tnut
the trick seems to be beyond the detection,
at the moment of playing, of the variously
employed driver, and threatens to be n very
serious Offset to the economy of making
every passenger his own conductor. A man
stations himself in q crowded car near the
door, and obliginely makes change for those
behind him. He may occasionally make
change from his own pocket, giving good
nickel to the passenger and putting bad
one in the box, but generally, it is believed,
he passes silver out to the driver, gets the
little envelope of change, tears it open, ap-
pears to drop one of its coins in the box,
and in reality drops in a bad one, palming
and subsequently pocketing the good one.
The driver may watch the little mirror over
his head until he has collision and gets q
crick in the back of his neck, yet cannot see
the trick of exchange performed, and the
coin in the box SO far as he can see through
the glass, is good,-N. Y Sun.