Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-04-11
TWO SMOOTH MEN
WORKING A GRAFT
Story Of the Mild Eyed Individual
Who is Introducing a New
Game
HOW SOME RAILROAD MEN BIT.
Meek Man With Same Name as His
Victim Every Time Responsible
For Much Mrth.

a little mlld-eyed individual, who, to
quote one OF his victims, looks like
a person down IN his luck Is playing u
rev graft here IN Salt Lake and Ogden,
and from last accounts he Is getting
along nicely. There was a little group
OF his victims In a local railroad office
this morning and the stories they told
were most enhancing. OF course to
Play the game successfully the man
has to be good actor This fellow,
to hear Ed Abbott OF Ogden tell II,
has got Henry Irving backed OF the
boards and Mrs. Biske taking to the
woods, With the aid Of city directory
he is making feroCious onslaught on
salt Lakes best citizens to the tune
Of 81 per onslaught. His method Is not
hackneyed. lie simply selects bis vic
tim and then calls on him. The victim
Invariably takes the call and loses the
pot.
This Is how James q, Doolittle Of the
Frisco tells IT, He is such "A dole
tul little chap, you know. lie came
up TO me ana said that the only excuse
he had IN the world was that our names
were alike, He was broke but did
not want TO beg. What he wanted was
work. When / offered MIN 81 after
listening TO his story, he really SEEM
ed to have some computations about
taxing it and blushed az he pocketed
the coin. Then he went down to Me-
Carthy Of the salt Lake Hardware
company and told him that his name
was George Washington Mccarthy and
then gave him the same old story In
the same old way. He got another
dollar and then braced Foley OF the
Illinois Central
subsequent Investigations went to
show that this mild-eyed starving man
went through Railroad rev In a most
enhancing manner, and tn I'm turned his
attention to the business men. From
latest advices he Is stll going, Ed
Abbott Of ogden was so carried away
by his story that he gave him a quarter
TO keep him from dropping In his yard
OF starvation, and then told him to get
meal and come back In the afternoon,
when he would try and have a Job for
him. The man was 20 profuse in his
thanks that Abbott nearly wore out
pair of shoes hunting him job, From
last accounts the fellow had not re-
turned to go to work
This graft belongs to this same class
rs practlsed by "A lookout In a certain
gambling house here, and whose meth
DDS We're exposed by the News three
, months ago From that date until two
nights ago he suspended operations.
Then, after glaucing through the per-
sOnal columns OF the papers he learned
lthat Nj. NJ. Johnson, mine manager of
!, the Newhouse properties, was out of
town, so he took occasion to call on Mrs.
johnson and tell his tale Of woe, He
was deeply surprised to find that his
old friend Johnson was out Of the city.
II was most annoying predicament to
be in because he had been down to
Nephi to look at some mining property
tor an eastern syndicate and upon COM
in back to town had found that his
expected remittance had not yet ar
rived, so he had called upon his old
friend to tide over the temporary EN-
barassment for few days Perhaps Mrs.
Johnson could loan etc, etc. Mrs. John
son went after her pocket book and
then suddenly remembered what Mrs.
Oglesby had told her about a similar
affair Then she went back and told
her visitor that she was sorry etc. etc.
He was sorry also, but graciously
bowed his way down the front steps
and on to the street,
The next minute there was an In
terseting conversation being carried
on over the phone between the John.
son and Oglesby residences.
1t concluded as follows
Yes. a small man with iron grey
hair and moustache, neatly dressed
and wearing a stiff derby hat. lie was
very polite and n perfect gentleman.
That's he. Yes, he called. Goodbye"
The police are powerless IN the mat
ter as the grafters never ask for the
money--they simrly seek 90 secure a
Temporary Loan