The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-03-08
Observation-Disclosures
The Deceptive Ring. the Nimblc
Dollar and the Worthless Nickel.

Dollar and the Worthless Nickel.
The New York Sun.
The glove and ring trick, recently no.
ticed as the latest variation upon the
old pocket.book dropping trick, has be-
come quite popular. There are scores
of young men practicing 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 look
ing little game or have forgotten it, SO
when they see dccently dressed, polite
and smooth-spokcn young man ..pick up
XII: glove, Which some lady has evil
IDENTIFY inst dropped, and pIucks hand
some ring from Ole OF lis tiugers. they
envy his luck, and when he offers to sell
it cheaply because he needs money more
than rings, they gladly enter into his lit
tie trap. When at home aitcrward they
are informed that the ring is worth only
ashamed OF their folly to admit that they
gave s. for 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
shopkeepers are just beginning to sus-
pect IS aimo I mcnopol;zed by young
fellow Familiarity known by his asso-
ciates as "Sheeney." 1t requires Pc
cuIiar skill in palnllnga coin or flippine
into q coat-s|eeve. Entering Il store, he
asks III the politest manner, the favor Of
silver change--doliars will do~-for Il S.
Or a $40 bill. generally the latter. The
storekecper, annoyed by his accumula-
ton OF silver, and seeing that the bill is
perfectly good, gladly makes the ex-
ctanHe. The young man counts his
change over ard under the storekeep-
er's nose, and in the act of dong so
causes one of the dollars to disappear.
The, storekeeper sees that his change
Is short, apologies, makes it good, and
ana the young man accepts another coin
aud 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 exhilarated, Was ex-
planning the trick to some Of his associ-
GATES In Il Sixth avenue saloon, and
showing how neatly he could work it.
They gnZed upon the demonstration of
his skill with adniring envy, so absorbed
that neither he nor they noticed a stran-
ger overlooking the proceedings,-a tall,
good-looklng young man, who was about
with friend seeing the sights; $50!
broke in the stranger. you're the chap
that played the game on me, are you?
thought knew your face" Sheeney
protested that he did not remember
him, and asked where he dill business.
In the rubber store on Broadway
little below Fulton street," was the
reply; Sheeney assured him it was q
mistake 90 ho had !
that part of Broadway. "No mistake
about insisted the Young man" know
you now. But it's long past to prowl
about: You did 1t neatly, and it's worth
a drink to know how it was done.
What will you have?'
The street car railroad companies
running bob-tail cars are again finding q
good many spurious nickles in their
cash boxes, and it is pretty we'll under-
stood how they are passed in. There
might be little comfort in knowing
that the tri TX seems to be peyond detec-
tion9' at the moment of paying, by the
valious'y employed driver, and threatens
TO he serious Offset to the economy of
making every passenger his own con-
ductOr. A man stations blmself in q
crowded car near the door, and obliging-
" makes change for those behind him.
He may occasionally make change from
his own pocket, giving good nickel t.,
the passenger and putting a 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,
appears to drop one OF its coins in the
box, and in reality drops in bad one,
palnlng and subsequently pocketing the
good one. The driver may watch the
little mirror over his head until he has
collision and gets crick in the back
Of the neck, yet can not see the trick of
exchange performed, and the coin in
tic box, so far rs lie can see through
the glass, is good.