Arizona weekly citizen., 1886-09-18
TRICKS IN SAWDUST.
MORE MEN THAN EVER TRYING TO
 BUY COUNTERFEIT MONEY.

The ''RemovaT' of Tom Davis only
 Stimulates Other swindIers to Ee-
 Hewed EHertiOns The Panel Game
 Given Up for More Original Devices
 The popular form of sWindle at the time
 ths Texans bullet ended Tom Davis hfe
 last August was by working the panel l game Davis was the inventor of this | trick and by it he supported a large num- .ber of agents and grew rich himself. The
 first move was tO secure the list of the names
 of people who were regular subscribers Co
 the Louisiana lotteries and the various gilt
 book concerns; for reasoned Tom, --peO- | pie who go into those things will be pretty
 likely to bite on my schema Wien the
 list had been duly studied agents were sent | out all over the country to look up the his
 tory of the most promising ones. his done, | a circular was mailed to each man, which
 ran something as follows:
 DEAR SIR: 1 will cOnfde to you through | this circular a secret by which you can make q speedy fortune. l have on hand
 large amount of counterfeit notes of the ! following denominations: si, s2, s5, SlO, | S59 l guarantee every note to be perfect,
 as 1t is examined carefully by me us soon
 as finished, and if not strictly perfect
 
 it would be perfectly foolish to send out poor
 work, and it would not only get my custom
 CTS into trouble, tus would break up my
 business and ruin ne. So. for personal safety, l am compelled to issue nothing that
 will not compare with tho genuine I fur
 nish you with my goods at the following
 low price which will be found as reasonable as the nature of my business will allow:
 -FOr q ,2Uo in my goods ,assOrtedl, charge
 slOO. for e. JOJ in my goods assortedi, l charge S-OO; for Sj,OO in my goOds as. sorted, charge SJJO; for SlO,OUJ in my goods assortedi, l charge SdOO
 Then follows advice to the verdant reader, impressins upon his mind that the gates of state prison are yawning for him, and that he must be very careful He must send ! word two days before his expected arrival in this city, go 10 Q hotel which vas named ! and remain in his room until the manufac- | turer called upon him This done an agent l sent up his card and devoted an hour to 1 sounding the man to see if he was fair game | or an emissary from the police in di 'suise. | If all promised well the man left, appoint | fng the next day as the time for the bar | gain.
 DETAILS or THE @PANELn TRICK.
 On the day appointed the first caller drops | fin to the hotel and leads the stranger 10 the | factory In a roughly furnished office. before high desk at the wall, sits Tom Davis busily counting out huge pile ot crisp bills. They are fresh from the gov ernment treasury, and of all alldenominatIons. The sucker is introduced, explained the pro cess by which the money can best be dis pOsed of and given general directions of how to avoid suspicion The man always protests that they are poor counterfo.ts and would never deceive him, but on the whole thinks they will do The amount desired Is carefully counted out and handed to the stranger to recount They are then nicely done up in packages, each denomination by itself, and the whole Careiessly tossed into a small leather grIpsack This done, the bag is laid the top Of the desk while the manufacturer holds tho attention of the sucker and lifts the lid Of the dess in front Cf h. bag. Half a dozen bonds are shown @ ~pecimen of good counterleitins. and Che suggestion is made that after the money h-s lcen used tho customer may take 0 fau-y Co handle some bonds also
 N nile the two heads arc busy looking at tha bonds confederate in the next room opens a slide or panel at the back of the ds-A and substitute an empty satchel in the plG-s of the one with the greenbacks The customer is then handed the bag and hurried away, while Davis closes up his office for a month or so and moves tO another similarly | equipped establishment
 Since the panel trick became known through Tom Davis's murder, tho saygdust men have been forced to invent another | device Within the past few weeks they | have issued long circular, which contains ! an alleged clipping from a New York news paper announcing that a full set of dies and plates has been stolen from the sub-trtasury [ n rH. na faaaf 1. framed. and it claims that the writer has thOse plaJes, from which tho green backs are being struck oil. The interesting 7 circular end with the following: The slip H will show you our officials in high standing l ' have used them for their own purpose and benefit, and why not every one in need 0 Address, in confluence. Philip Berg, box 10, ,Ol East Fourteenth street" io
 THE PEER OE ~HJRSE-CAR" CAME.
 The purpose of the letter is to lead the Q mo addressed to believe that the money . ,ffsred k really genuine being printed from v he plates claimed Co have been stolen from \ ne treasury. Tho same old trick of con t uctinS the man to a ho;el and then to the office is used, but the panel trick Is no oncer woraej. Instead, the beer or ! N Lorse-car7 game is made use OE In the | rst case the purchaser Is introduced to the &. awdust man on the street and Co conclude Dl be bargain the party adjourn to the nearest -u alOOn- Stepping into a private room they C' aSe seats at a table and the money Is sxhib- r, .ed This done, the amount demanded is ald and as the operator rolls the goods AT lto little rcd package and snaps an elastic round 1t he calls for beer. But before they CT re handed over the appearance of the VI after alarms the sawdust man and he drops sA De package into bis lap, with a wink at the '' lsiOmer While the beer is being brought mother red package is substituted from lo nder the table and the trick has been l3l 5l. aycd E. 1T the beer fails the greenbacks are Pc lInped into little leather satchel with i.' ,ry marked cut or scratch on it, and after sD ,ing duly locked the key IS handed to the Ar lstomer The party then boards a car ~ ld in few moments a clerical looking S,' .ntleman gets on, and with bag precisely s nilar in mark, etc, to the one containing for e goods Of ourse the bags are changed m id the purchaser Is swin led After the 0'' ick has beeu played the sawdust men dis , pear. hla since lS6l when Tom Davis issued the add st circular e the world, the sawdust bus.- ss has grown and pruspered The opera rs work carcfully, their only fear being t some detective be entrapped The DO. e have tr.ed over and over asnin to get
 the swind.ers, and although they are cry ono ot th m well known Co the thoritie,, 1t k next to impossible to ol- a proof against them Their victim, lo are every day swiEdled. refuse Co aT- lr against tteug for the very fact Of hay 9 had dealings with the sawdust men
 their months sOr fear of having tle
 'tion male public. In ths vly t.e
 ll-t business goes on and seems % 5. Ar' .uI the reach Of the law-New Or.. 1 .' g ---L C. s Lind man wto was ;auuteI in San -