Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-03-28

| get him I'm q state OF mind suitable to the
| game about to be played on him This man
Is evidently from the far West or South /
don't sympathize with him at all, but III
save him If CAM
Accordingly we lodged Brady, who was
retracing his steps, and came up with the
countryman- My friend" said Newcombe,
do you know that you're going to be swim
died out Of all your moneys"
''No, sir, 1 didn't" said the countryman.
"Well, you are The man who Just left
you Is to return with another who is to sell
you some counterfeit money. Am rightr'
"Supposin' you be-" was the reply, ait
amt none o. your business, and don't you
forget 1t. That's my advice to you, young
man, and you can gamble on it. ! amt no
tenderfoot, and Pm all right"
"You think you are" said Newcombe,
shut If you buy counterfeit money of these
men you will find that you have been SWIM
died.
Nobody don't pull any wool over my
eyes," said the countryman, and was pro
ceeding TO give Newcombe a history of his
many marvellous exploits, when Brady and
another man hove in sight coming up the
street When they saw Newcombe they
turned about, walked rapidly toward the
Bowery and finally broke into a run. The
man from beyond civilization was surprised.
He seemed to be a decent sort of fellow,
and Newcombe invited him down to his
Office. There the man from Arizona told his
story. His name was j. L. Normandy. He
had been lured to New York in the usual
way. There's lots Of boys out my way
who have been roped in by these fellers,"
said he You sec, out there we don't make
much money, and when we do make any it
comes in heap. Just about the time man
rakes in a little pile he hears from New
York. Somebody wants to sell him a lot of
green goods, and though he can point to half
dozen men who got left ON that racket he is
just fool enough to think he can get the best
Of it That was the way with me. I've got
$1,000 IN my pocket, ana / expect came
pretty near losing it. At the same time 1
wanted to make winning pretty bad They
sent a sample Of their money out to me-
That's what catches the boys. You can't
tell 1t from the genuine article"
Likely enough" said Newcombe, "for
it's as good a bill as ever was made"
He then proceeded to give Mr.. Normandy
few points on the workings of the sawdust
game. The writer as he is called, sends
out his letters to addresses in commercial
directories or to men he hears of from local
crooks. The countryman comes to the city
with all he can raise, goes to hotel and is
met by some such man as Brady, to whom
he is induced to surrender the correspond
ence. The affair is then in charge of the
''boodler," man who holds the money. In
this case Brady was the 'steerer." He
takes his man as far as the turning point"
so called, where he is left till he is suffi-
GENTLY nervous TO be run into the joint and
heeced. Once inside, he is shown the money
(notes fresh from the Treasury Department.,
and by this time his only thought is to get
hold Of them and get out Of town. He is in
variably induced to express the valise to his
home for fear the detectives will arrest him
for having counterfeit money. 1t is need
less TO say that the valise which goes by
express is not the one that contains the