Arizona republican., 1902-01-12
CHICAGO SWINDLERS
Rob an Arizona Man Seeking Treat
 ment at Pasteur's.

l the COilHuenCe man mas begun To Oper-
 ate in a new field; has started to traffic
 with physical ailments as well as men
 tai simplicity; is finding easy victims among the sick and infirm who come to I Chicago in trembling hope and anxiety | to seek renewed health and strength. Facts have come to light in the last few weeks which make il certain that
 q regular traffic in the credulity of the sick is being carried on under the eyes of the police and that victims are taken away from the railroad depots with impunity by men who. they think, are leading them to the advice and relief
 they have travelled hundreds of miles
 to seek. There is in addition a strong belief on the part of physicians who
 have been deprived of their patients in this manner that in many eases un- scrupulous licensed practitioners are aiding the confidence men in their work.
 Joseph R. Emmons. young mining man of Arizona and long, clean limbed. typical wesuerner. visited de- tective headquarters yesterday and told a story that started the officers out in all directions hunting for two pro fessional' men and q hack driver. who had swindled him out of S100 by inn personating pr. A. Lagorio and rep resentatives of the Pasteur institute.
 E,mmons. lying out in the open one night in the mountains a hundred miles west of Phoenix. was badly bitten in the hand by a skunk, and. warned by the horrible deaths of three compan- ions who had been bitten in the same way some months before and had be- come infected with rabies. immediately started off for Chicago for treatment at the Pasteur institute.
 At Kansas City the Santa Fe train was boarded by handsomely dressed old man with a white beard. who soon got into converse tion with the miner. He heard the story of his misfortune in a sy1lpa thizing way and then declared that nothing could have been more fortunate than the chance meeting. as he was an old and intimate friend of pr. Lagorio and could get him to the office of the institute without loss of time as soon as the train arrived in Chicago.
 When they reached the Polk street depot on Christmas day the friend told his victim that he would better go to the Somerset hotel at Twelfth street and Wabash avenue. recommended to him by his companions in Phoenix. and that after leaving his baggage there he might return to the depot. In the meantime the stranger promised to go to the telephone ard find out if Dr. Lagorio was in his downtown office.
 Half an hour later. when EmTons got back to the depot. he found his accommodating friend there with a tall distinguished looking man in glasses. who was introduced to him as pr. Lagorio. The doctor" told him that he was more than glad to have been able to meet him so soon. as the city was full of sharpcrs and conh- dence men. who might have led him away to some unscrupulous quack If he had been alone. He added that his private carriage was in front of the station and asked the patient to ac- company him to his temporary offices for immediate treatment
 Having no reason to doubt the iden- tity of the man and being worried and anxious to begin anything that would ward off the dreaded disease. Emmons willingly consented. and he vas driven to tall building somewhere inside the downtown loop and taken to suite of rooms.
 The place vas handsomely furnished. but E.Inmons noticed at once that it did not look like doctors office. and there were TO signs either on the doors or the windows. His companions. how
 
 the hospital was being renovated and that they were compelled to move into quarters for few days while alterations wer going on.
 Emmons was given some drugs and paid q deposit of $50 for his treatment, with the understanding that another $50 was to be handed over at the expir- ation of five days. when the full cure was to be effected. He then left for his hotel in the carriage that had taken him from the depot after being told that he would be called for at o'clock each following afternoon and driven back to the office.
 Every day the hack stood half a block away from the hotel and Elm mons boarding it. was driven to the '' Pasteur institute" He was given more treatments. consisting. as has nov, been ascertained. of simple 'purSa- tive medicines. and at the end of five days was pronounced cured. immedi- ately Hafterward paying the men the other $50.
 Fully believing that he was cured. l he made all his preparations to leave | for Arizona the next night. but by a ] peculiar coincidence found out few | hours before the train started that he ! had been swindled.
 He entered q clothing store to buy a | suit and while there told the salesman | of the rapid cure that had been effected l In his case by pr. Lagorio. The sales | man had been q patient of the Pasteur | institute, and after hearing Emmons' | story declared to him that he had been | the victim of trickery. Dr. Lagorio | was teiephoned for. and in half an hour l met Emmons at the Somerset hotel. The miners eyes were opened and the | at I, inn tp at headquarters. where he told his story.
 Dr. Lagorio insisted on taking care of him and giving his trea tment, without when he heard how thc patient had been robbed. but Emmons insisted on paying. He is now being