The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-09-19
NEW GREEN GOODS METHODS.
Dressed In feminine Attire, the S~wind;.-
Lures His Victims.

ing and a friend. Il gentleman whose az
cent afforded indisputable evidence tina.
he Is OF German extraction walked int
the detective offi'.e last night and therC
related a most remarkable experiepc,
which, he stated, had befallen him. His
name is Frank Hohlbein, he is the rep.
fesentative of a tan bark company, and
n the register of the Red Lion hotel he
has given his address as Eastwood, Ont.
His business has taken him all over this
country and the adjoining republic. and
he has only recently returned from the
southern states.
His story to the detectives is to the
effect that on Saturday evening. having
nothing to do. he paid a visit to the
musee on Yonge street. When the per-
formance was over, he came out to the
street and was about to return to his
hotel when he noticed a very plump.
rather handsome young lady. who ap-
pears to have had power enough to
charm him away from his original in
tention to go home. Neither seems to
have objected to the others company,
and, to make a long story short, the two
strolled away up the street arm in arm.
Hohlbein is a stranger in the city, has no
knowledge at all of its geography, and is
therefore unable to now describe, except
in very general terms. the route followed
by him and his companion, but it is
sufficient to know. that at length they
reached the outside of a house which
the lady informed him was her home, /
With some hesitation he accepted an in
vitation to enter and was ushered into
q room furnished in a very ordinary
way and containing, he noticed, a type
writer. he was offered some ale. but
having declined to drink the lady drank
some for him.
After some pleasant chatting his CON-
panion stepped back. and raising her
hand lifted off her hat and a wig, and to
MS intense amazement Hohlbein saw
hat he was in the presence not of a
woman. but OF a man. Another twist of
The wrist. and the man had removed a
Jacket. waist and skirt. and there he
young man in ordinary male
lttire.
Hohlbein was ut a loss to account for
his very strange metamorphosis and
a revolver which he carried
NTH him, determined to defend himself
mould the occasion rise. The stranger.
However, requested him to be calm and
t his ease, as no harm would come to
I'm. lie then produced some samples
t bills, which he handed to Hohlbein
nth the request that the latter express
n opinion as to what they were.
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Right you are!" said the stranger
he then and there offered him al! he
for 25 cents for each dollars
"How much money have YOU" he
sked H~ohlbein. The latter produced
Is purse and showed his companion
lat there was nothing in it but some
nall change scarcely worth mention
g. This seemed to exasperate the &C.
,pant of the room, and with rather
rong language he opened a door lead +
g to the back yard and promptly
'lcted his guest. Hohlbein said he
alked a long distance before he could
I'd a street. and when he at last did 50
hastened to his hotel. In the morn
: lie related his experience to a friend. I
III the two interviewed Constable Iry-
(, who vent with them to the detective
ice.
he story is snch a queer affair that it
din'cnlt TO come to any conclusion re-
rang 1t. The man who tells it is said \
be IN honest. truthful and sober man.
d those who know him place reliance
his word.-Toronto Mail,