Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-06-20
BASE lNGRATITUDE.
BUgEO SHARPgRS, DESPAIRING OF Light
NATE VI0IIMS,
Turn Oh Their Friend and Capitalist and ao0d0o
Hin ca; Of $500 il Ap-
proved Style.

a queer tale OF rascality and mis-
placed confidence came TO the ears OF
REGISTER reporter Yesterday.
Two local confidence adopts and BUN
| ko sharpers, finding times dull and theli
| usual game scarce, and feeling the ne
cessity Of raising some cash without
the dcr7,ier resort of working for the
same. put their heads together, and con-
cOcted a scheme to despoil their best
friend and financial hacker of a good
Nv portion OF his worldly
coodsS The scheme worked beau
tifully, and as result they We're
very flush Of money Thursday night,
being seen in various saloons with good
sized "wads" OF large bills, ana treats
without number, and hack rides TO ques-
tionable quarters of town, attested the
fact that they were flush, and that the
money had come and was going in the
proverbial easy way.
The details of this raid on the treas
ury are as followS;-the leading charac-
ters in the story being A, business
man, with money to invest on a dead
sure thing, and 3 and c, bright young
bloods, who live chiefly through the In
discretions and weaknesses Of that por-
ton of the human race found in and
about Wheeling.
Thursday shortly after noon B and c
came into AS place of business, took
him aside, and contided to him that they
had q soft snap on stranger in Bridge
port, and that with the sum OF three
hundred dollars in cash they could "do"
the greeny for one thousand.
A at once became interested
in the subject, and having
advanced them money before, he read
lily agreed TO surrender the three humid
red and accompany one of the men to
Bridgeport, where he was TO receive
the thousand, hurry back TO the city
with 1t and there await the coming OF
the Others, when the proceeds would be
divided, the three hundred advanced
being first refunded.
Matter being thus arranged, went
over to Bridgeport, with three hundred
dollars OF AS money, and in a short
time A and b followed. On arriving in
Bridgeport, left A, and returning in
a short time, thrust package the size
and shape of bundle Of
bank bills, marked "S1 COO" into
his hands, and told him to hic
himself to Wheeling as fast as he could,
not stopping to open the package until
he got safely over the river, and there
to await the coming of 3 and c. A took
the package and fled across the island,
and arriving at his place of business
ncrvously tore open the wrapper, ex-
pectiug to feast his eyes on stack
of greenbacks. But he didn't. I'M
agine his disgust when he
found the bundle contained nothing
but waste paper, cut and folded to the
size Of bank bills.
While A was cursing his luck and
the pergdy OF his former friends and
fcllOw-workerS, b and c came over to
town and proceeded to get gloriously
full on AS money. They even went
into his place of business and spent some
of his good money with him, in a burst
of generosity, knowing that as A was
as deeply involved in crOokedness as
they were, he would hardly have the
nerve TO squeal. in this they were
right, hut the story got out during the
carouse and ''time" which resulted
Thursday night and yesterday was
the talk of all the 'boyS" about town.
The police are fully informed OF the af-
fair and have all the parties names,
and something additional may turn up.