The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-04-23
Was A MEAN SVIDDLH.
Cassello Charmed Money Out
Of School Teachers With
a Bargain"

| The Sessions Court room was illuminat-
| ed yesterday afternoon by the presence OF
three pretty young school teachers, who
We're there to give testimony against a
swindler of a class which is becoming al
together too numerous While their ex-
perience, as related by the teachers, was
not specially complimentary to their
| shrewdness, it will be a warning to 9TH
ers. The young ladies' were Libbie Tur-
| nard, Mary Mcnamara and Belle Lind
say. On March 25 plausible, glib-spoken
young man, James Cassello, called at the
school where they are engaged and Of
fered them extraordinary bargains in
photographs. 1t is not too much to say
that there is no woman living, be she
young or old, who can resist the allure
ments of bargain. Just tell woman
that she can buy something for SO cents,
| reduced from a dollar, and she will buy
it, whether she wants it or not. But to
get back to the story.
Cassello displayed to the young ladies
an assortment of imperial photographs of
well known men, and offered to furnish
them with similar photographs of them
selves for sixty-three cents half Dozen
II,
and thirteen cents at the gallery. The
proposition, of course. was absurd on the
face of it, but Cassello assured them that
it was all right, as he represented Stiner,
of Newark avenue, and Stiner's was a
reliable house.
The teachers were duly impressed with
the magnificence of the opportunity but
they were too busy then to talk business
and they told Cassello to come some
other day. Cassello made another call
on April 2. Miss Turnard ordered half
dozen and paid him fifty cents. Miss
Mcnamara and Miss Lindsay, thinking
it was the opportunity of lifetime, or
dered a dozen each, and each young lady
with cards, which, on presentation at the
gallery, with thirteen cents for each half
dozen pictures, would entitle them to sit
and be photographed.
The young ladies met with a surprise
and sore disappointment when they went
to the gallery few days afterward. They
were received by Frank Neimeier, the
manager, and presented their cards and
the thirteen cents each. With his most
pleasant smile, and in the best English at
his command, Neimeier informed the
youuS IdulSS tletI II WOu1u DG HSC0SSdfy
for each one to hand UP $1.75 in order to
get half dozen imperial photographs.
That was in the contract, he said, and
sure enough, when the young ladies read
their cards they found it there. The
young ladies were chagrined, both at the
loss of the money they had paid to Cas-
sello and at the thought of having been
so easily imposed upon.
Cassello was tried iii the Special Ses-
sions Court yesterday for false pretences.
The young ladies told the story of their
experience with him as given above. Cas-
sello admitted that he had made the rep
resentations alleged, but said that he had
been authorized to do SO by Neimeier.
s'Neimeier told me- he said, ito make
any promises pleased, and when he got
the people to the gallery he could take
care of them.'
You were a steerer for bunco game
were you?" asked Assistant Prosecutor
Noonan. Cassello did not answer. Nei-
meier denied that he had given Cassello
any such authority. He was convicted
and sentenced to nine months in the Peni-
tentiary.