The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-20
X SLICK OLD SWlNDLER !
HE WORKED THE FURNIrURE
 RACKET IN SELMA.
Bought $a24 Worth of Furniture and Then Got the Balance of $140 Check in
 Cash.
Advertiser Bureau,

AQVertlSer Bureau, Selma, June 1a
 The telegram in The Advertiser of this morning giving an account of a man named Samuel Moore swindling a furniture house in Birmingham, devel- oped the fact that he had been in Sel- ma and worked his game on M. w. Walker, the furniture dealer. He went bv the name Of Samuel Moore in Bir- mingham, and in Meridian, where he played the same act; he passed under the name of honest John Thompson. In Selma he was William Rascon.
 Rascon is an old man with an honest, benevolent-looking face. When he struck Selma, he went to Stewards Real Estate Agency and wanted house. Allie Baker showed him a house that was the very thing he was looking for. Mir. Baker says the old gentleman "set 'em up" to soda water and offered him something stronger, but he de- clined.
 Rascon told MT. Baker that he had been in the broom manufacturing husi- ness with his brother-in-law in Mem phis; that he had falling out with him and had sold him his interest and was coming here to start broom fac- tory. He had bought all of the ma chinery and in 8 short while would open up first-class broom factory in Selma with eighteen expert broom makers handling the machinery. He even talked to MT. Baker about a de- sirable location for his factory, and ex- hibited a check for $40, duly signed by his brother-in-law, which, he said, was part of the purchase money paid him for his interest in the Memphis broom factory, and that the balance of the money he had deposited in the bank.
 MT. Baker was delighted with the honest old man, and turned the keys of the residence over to him. Armed with the keys, he went to M. W. Walkers furniture establishment, sand pulled out a long list of furniture that he needed, neatly made out in wo- mans chirography. Opposite each arr ticle of furniture was set the amount that the good Mrs. Rascon was willing 10 pay, but the price was not to go over that sum. The old swindler show ed this list to MT. Walker and pretty soon they were going through the store selecting the different articles on the list.
 MT. Walker showed him a bed room suit at exactly the price set by Mrs. Rascon opposite that article, and MT. Rascon was delighted, and told N1r. Walker that he did not see how the furniture could be sold at that prize. He went through the same compliments to MT. Walker on each article as 1t was selected, and MT. Walker says it was the easiest bill of goods that he ever sold in his life.
 When all the articles had been pur- chased they were footed up and it was found that the bill amounted to SPA. The oii fellow then turned the keys of the residence over to Mir. Walker and told him that his family was at York. He said ne would go down there and get them and would bring them here by Monday and that he must have everything in the house by the time that he arrived with his beloved wife and their only daughter.
 He then ran his hand in his pocket and pulled out a check for $40. and handed it to Mir. Walker and told him to collect 1t and pay himself for the furniture and hand him the difference. $16, when he came back on Monday. Mir. Walker was delighted at getting the cash for the furniture, and he could not think of suspecting Mir. Rascou's honesty, so he told him he would give him the difference then and there and he went down into the cash drawer and handed over SIS to the honest-faced old man who was coming to Selma to start q broom factory.
 MT. Rascon left that afternoon for York or some other seaport town, and Mfr Walker duly entered the check on his books as cash, and put it in the bank for collection. In few daye .h. check came back with about $A worth ct protest fees attached to 1t, and not till theL- did MT. Walker re- alize that he had been duped by the slick sWindler, Rascon. But MT. Walk. CT congra tulateS himself that he did not haul the furniture down to the house rcI ted by Roscon.