Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-07-28
BUSINESS MEN ARE EASY.
Always Are Eager to Get Something
for Nothing.

rather prides himself upon the skin
and success of his swindling opera
tons. Mueller related them in detail
to the police, laying particular stress
upon the ease with which the Ameri-
can business man may be swindled.
II often made him laugh, he said.
Mueller said that he came to this coun-
try from Germany about 10 years ago
and aftera time obtained job in Belle
Vue hospital as an orderly. 1t was
while there he learned how to play
the role Of doctor so successfully, he
declared, and when he decided to turn
swindler, his old training proved of
value to him. Why" he added. with
a smile, Il was frequently forced to
laugh at the success of my game.
Americans, and particularly American
business men. are the easiest people in
the world to bunco. ] learned a great
deal about the American in the course
OF my three years at Bellevue. | never
was doctor, only posed as one.
Never in my life did ! ever bunco a
poor person. Business men with
money, who thought themselves
shrewd, were my prey. would study
a man and learn what could about
his means and property holdings, and
then perhaps at the end of three or
/ four days or a week, would call ON a
real estate agent in the neighborhood
and inquire if any of his property was
in the market. | would follow this up
/ by going to see the owner himself, and
make him a generous offer for his
home, Generally ] preferred to deal
with men of middle age or older II
they had not been feeling well it was
an easy matter to make them believe
that they were suffering from heart
trouble.
81 would indicate,a few symptoms,
and then the mans wife, whom took
care should be listening, would step in
and say, That's right, john you'd
better have the matter attended to by
the doctor and of course | was the
doctor. To get the patient to disrobe
then became an easy matter. ! would
carry supply of court plaster with
me and apply 1t on the back as the
patient lay face down without his
clothing. Whenever happened to be
out of court plaster ! would substitute
ordinary bicycle tape, or passe partout
OF all who have cen its results. The
used by photographers. had difficulty
more than once in restraining myself
from laughing aloud. Once, under
! uYn "a In Il
will not mention any name or address
Il took everything l could lay my
hands on. After leaving the house l
remembered there was finger ring
had overlooked and / went back and
got it. The patient was still obeying
my instructions tosthe letter; to lay
still face down and not even breathe
for three or four minutes, If possible.
until could bring some bandages
from the druggists.
you would think that shrewd men
would know better, but they did not,
for the reason that they had the Amer
lean desire to get something for moth
ing, and took all sorts OF chances on
my free treatment Once though,
give his name, for | don't think he
would care to see 1t in the newspapers.
He let me down easy and will have
consideration for his feelings now"
Mueller chuckled at the thought.
Continuing he said: 81 never would
have swindled a single person or stolen
anything, only ! was driven to early
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funds. My wife had been good to me
and ! wanted to provide literally for
her She did not have any knowledge
of what | was about, believing me to
be an honest sewing machine agent.
One thing Is certain, | never could have
worked my schemes off in Germany
There the people decline, as rule, to-
deal or talk with strangers, and the,
game would be hard one. -
/ u had an unlucky experience in
! Newark. | had buncoed a business
man out of his watch and chain, dlar
mond IN and some money. stood ON.
trolley car platform on my way back
to New York, and as / took the chain,
out of my trousers pocket to examine
it, the diamond pin came out with IL
and got lost on the ground. had the
car stopped and went back and
searched for the pin but could not find
it,"
Mrs. Mueller, the prisoners wife,
said she had never suspected her hus-
band of anything wrong, and had al
ways fairly worshiped him" my
friends were against my marrying him
IS months ago." she added, because
he was German and an Irish girl.
When he became a machine agent
tick such coed care Of him that
never allowed hin to leave the house
- rainy days. ] DID not want him to
ret wet. His arrest was a terrible
fl1w &c me and hardly know what to
20"
Mueller is clean shaven. 20 years old,
and about six feet tall He talked as II
fairy well educated. The police found