, 1892-01-09
DUPED DOZENS OF EN-.
Another Defrauder Does UP a chey-
enne Merchant.
The Same Man Beats Many Raw
Inns Business Men.
Song and Dance Racket of Max
ina Money.

'NANSN -
in fact the entire central West. is being
systematically worked by the most cum
ming gang of thieves that have appeared in
this section since the early days.
Yesterday another fraud of the rankest
sort, perpetrated by one of these rascals
was brought to light. The story Is sue
cinctly as follows: Wednesday a sleek,
slightly reticent, yet not altogether pre-
posing Individual arrived in the city and
at once went to the Hotel Dyer, where
he registered and told the hotel authori-
ties that he was a mining expert and cap
italist. He aleo told several parties that
he had been prospecting in this neigh
borhood and that he had discovered
ride from the city. He was dressed as an
ordinary miner, or capitalist miner. and
seemed to make himself thoroughly at
home with those with whom he happened
to come in contact He convsrsed with
ease, and altogether, to use the language
of Sheriff Kelley, He was the slickest
duffer that has struck Cheyenne in many
q day." This, of course, does not except
o. H. Taylor. whose various forgeries
were recently published exclusively in
THE LEADER.
The alleged man gave his name as L.
A. Moore. His game is to 20 to a man
and give him a song and dance story
that he has valuable mining property in
AZ oo,cIL4rLAnI .-l tkok H. Ioao -
happen to have Just what money he wishes
TO spend and that he would be glad to
draw IDOL his bank account, which is the
National Bank of the Republic at Salt
OF goods and gives his check for 800
and gets the balance in cash. OF course
he never calls for the goods and after
pocketing the money disappears as sud
denly and mysteriously as did ParkIson
and Col. Whiskers.
BY Thursday he had ''reconnoitered"
the city and selected a well known bust
ness man as his victim.
He vent into the store and asked to see
the proprietor. He was Accommodated in
this. He told the merchant shout the
same story as is given above. He said he
had discovered some very valuable MIN
ing property not more than sixteen miles
from Cheyenne; that he wished to make
some purchases and that he did not want
to spend all the ready money he had with
him. He preferred to give his check, he
said, on = Salt Lake bank. The mer-
chant Accommodated him and soon fixed
him up a package OF goods for which the
bill was $40. Moore gave his check made
payable at a Salt Lake bank for $I14. SO.
The uerchan. gave him the difference
$74.50 and he departed. Not many
hours after the merchant investigated
and found the man was gone and the
check was bogus. He at once placed the
matter in the hands of Sheriff Kelley,
but that official c,uld find no trace Of him.
This is evidently the same man who did
up the people of Rawli1s in great shape.
The description of Moore tallies exactly
with hat Of the slick "a, cal who beat the
citizens of that town out of several
hundred dollars under the alias of Will
Hams. Following is an account of his do
ings in RawlIns as gwen by The LEAD
ER's special correspondent Of that place:
Special Correspondence.
RAwLINs, Jan. &c. FL. Williams,
alias Joe Aber, alias G. w. Baker. a
slick forger from Los Angeles, en- route
East, paid this town a short visit New
Year day and introduced himself as a
mining man. holding valuable claims near
Gold Hill. Being short of cash and rep
resenting himself as having u fat bank
account in Salt Lake, he induced several
t~ownspeople to cash his checks, among
whom we're s.. j.. Willis for SIG, j. G.
Cunning, 1926; VIM, HesslIp, $40. 25 and
several others for smaller amounts, after
which he hired a rig from Ransom, the
liveryman, and went to Fort Steele, where
he purchased a bill of groceries from B.
Prison. a merchant there, and presented a
check on a Salt Lake bank for 5000 in
payment and received the difference,
saying his team would call for. the load
the next day and take them to his mine.
He sent his hired team home to Rawlins
and took a freight train for pastures new
in the East. Williams is an old time
crook, having served time in Massa-
chusetts, New York and California peni-
tentaries for forgery. He left a package
of Salt Lake Tribunes with the cashier of
the bank here, marked valuables. which
are still awaiting his return. He also left
a valise with j. q. Gerring containing a
pair of pants. rubber boots and some
papers giving the impression hat he was
strictly in 1t. miningly speaking.
Williams is a man about 80 years old.
FIVE feet, eleven inches tall. weighs about
100 pounds, has a rather prominent nose
and upper iront teeth, is clean shaven,
light hair and complexion, He did up
several Ogden and Evanston merchants
for a snug amount. 1t is thought Dead
wood. OAK, or Aspen, Colo, will be bis
next s%topDinp nlace "a he il knnwn Tn