Waterbury Democrat., 1902-03-01
CLEVER SWINDLING.


 s'It is too laugh" when one learns the method by which 8 well dressed man and woman have been swindling St Louis merchants. Even the victims cannot repress q smile. For all the closely guarded business systems there are thinkers and schemers, shrewd men and women who have plenty of gray inside as well as outside their heads, and who use it just to demonstrate 10 the satisfaction of their pocketbooks that these safeguards can be overcome.
 A we'll dressed lady and gentleman enter a business house and look over the articles on sale Perchance they go to a well known tailor's place of business and the gentlemen orders suit. Very likely he wants high priced suit; most clever men do. He asks what deposit is required and writes check for the amount demand ed. Then he goes away with his lady companion. The check is rushed off to the bank before work is commenced on the suit. It is found to be per fectly good check. In the course of time the gentleman returns 10 get his suit. and again his swell female friend is with him. The suit is prop erly done up in neat pasteboard box, as all good tailor-made suits should be, and the gentleman remarks that if his memory serves him right the balance due on the suit is a certain amount. He draws forth his check book and writes a check for this balance. The check is on the same bank on which the first check was drawn. The first paper was good and the tailor, arguing I,of I, h0 o1S and that hQ has probably won a new customer. politely refrains from calling up the bank by telephone until after the customer has departed When he does send the check to the bank he is informed in the due course of time that the second paper was exactly like the first one with one exception: The first was good; the second was not. The man and woman and the suit have disap- peared, and the tailor has lost his new customer, his goods, his work, and even the clothes-brush which he threw in. Then it is that he smiles q sickly smile and tells his troubles to a police man.
 Or, perhaps, the man enters jewel " store. He has q unique watchcase He says it is family heirloom, and the appearance of the thing bears out his statement. There are all sorts of hap py memories wrapped up in that watchcase and all sorts of family his tory. The man wants the very best works in the establishment put into that case. He buys few trinkets, and then remembers that he is not known in the jewelry store. He sug- gests paying for the work in advance | ErIlo of fp11rca ies xviI1irar Again he draws forth his check book and writes out check covering the bill. If the check is not large enough he will pay the difference when he re- turns for the watch. In the meantime he expects to leave the city, but will be back within ten or twelve days. He keeps his promise, but the work has not been completed. The clerk is glad he came in, however, for there is some little mistake about the check which he gave ill payment for the bill. Tue man does not understand this Tl1e check must certainly be good He had a whole lot of money in the bank when he issued the check, and he has not had occasion to withdraw any of it. When he thinks the matter over for q few minutes he becomes real indignant. I to look at the check2 The clerk would not; he gets the worthless piece of pa per. The man takes it; he looks at it from all sides and his indignation rises. He notes the indorsement of the firm, put on the check when they sent it to the bank That is what he want ed-that indorsement. He will see about this. and rushes out ito sec
 He drops his hat and hurriedly enters a nearby store, where he tells the pro- prietor that MT -. the jeweler, would be much obliged if the check were cashed for him. The proprietor notices that the check has been indorsed by the big jewelry firm and cashes it. The man skips out. Then he invents a new scheme.-St Louis Globe-Demo- crat.
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