The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-08-09

Il Is cutie remarkable that there have
nor been some hsg rohtsrses. burslarfes
and sw.niies iii Seattle as auxiliary % tns
klonG.ke excitement
That orty a few cheap hurglarses ana
one or two baby confidence games have
come 10 light speaks well for the Wig
lance Of the police. but. a. the same
time, & must - remembered that crooks
and swinslars have but recently had their
attention directed 20 Seattle. Some Of tho
gentry have been here and gone nor;h. a
few are stfl here ard more are coming
n they hear that Detective Cudlhee may
60 TO the Klondike they viii come IN
greater numbers
One Of the NEST effective pieces Of work
possible 10 be done by the police Is 10
check the aspirations of confirmed GRIM
snals by driving them away from the city.
Ii may appear harsh method. but IL is
effective and when handled by con-
servatiye man does nc, injure the inao-
cent
The police may know now. but II they
do not is il time they did, that a gang or
clever confidence men reached Seattle last
Saturday morning over one Of the trans
continental railroads. The persounsi OF
this gang Is as follows: Tony Bannon, 6iia
Glvens and Jimmy Lowry.
They came through from the East. Per-
haps they are going to the klondike- III
so. the Seattle police viii be glad TO see
them go as quickly as possible, for fear
IL they prolonged their stay they might
outfit at some one else's expense. These
men are said TO be not only inscriptions
and wicked beyond the ways of the ordi-
nary man, but smart enough TO plan and
execute original acts for the filching OF
hard-earned dollars from the hands OF the
gulibIe
When a town has a real estate boom
there are real estate swindles certain 10
crop out The same thing is true of min
Ing excitements. The people OF Seattle.
as well as those who come here should be
very careful about being caught In the
hundred and one schemes that Will DO
Matched up by the outlaws who live by
their wits IL is a hard matter TO tell hon.
est people how TO spot swindler. or the
best way to checkmate him. When
chance acquaintance shows you a scheme
whereby you can make several hundred
per cent. with absolute certainty, there 10
apt to be something crooked. People whe
are In an honest enterprise court invesu-
CATION: those who are not. resort to
smooth talk.
As a rule swindles that appear new have
the elements Of ancient schemes. Some
one has been clever enough to rehabii-
tate the old forms and put them forth to
deceive the uusuSpectirg.
1t Is as much the duty Of citizens to ex-
ercise ordinary common sense in avoiding
being swindled as IL is that of the police
TO preserve order. The fact that trials or
swindlers bring out how foolish men can
be has given rise to the stereotyped sem
tence: III he did not know better, he
ought 10 be swindled."
There is no telling what system clever
men will follow. Bannon, Givens and
Lowry are clever. The police will prob
ably find 1t to their advantage to make
their acquaintance. The plans OF these
men must be perfected because they came
straight through to Seattle from st. Paul
without making stop. Perhaps they
have not heard that Seattle is not right"