Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1906-01-17
TWO BUNCo ARTISTS WORK IN
 PRESCOTT
lFrom Thursday g Daily.l

evening states that two of the smooth. est and most cntcrprising crooks that eyer worked the cities of the south west and who n few weeks ago sue. ccsSiully made their game pay here, recently came to grief in that place, and are now behind the bars there charged with obtaining money under false prctcnccs
 The names given by these parties while here are Gray and Morris and the game that they worked as de- scribcd by A. ]. Head, the prominent lumber man of this city, who is one of their victims to the tune of a, K certainly a smooth one.
 llc said. "Thcy walked into my oi- fee in a busincsslike way, and told me that they represented company of commercial travellers which secured reduced rates for travelling men, and that the proposition was open to any individual or company which would assist in paying the expenses of sc. curing the concession. They proceed. cd tu show me where the rates had been secured in the east and in the west, and that now only the South. western Passenger associaton remain ed out of the list of the concerns which have adopted what they termed the in. tcrchangcablc mileage system. and that this association would be in as soon ms the committee would call on them and lay the ease before them.
 They represented that the business man can get into the concern for small sum, that they had been refer. red and recommended ,o come to him by Mcssrs. Ed. $. Campbell, the well. known mining man, whom they said had contributed s25, and Elliot and Dreschcr. the architects and mill wrghts, who also had taken n member ship, and advanced the sum of SD, and showed or prctendcd to show him that great saving could be made each year by avoiding the payment of the regular cxorbitant rates of trans. portation charged by the railroads in the southwest
 The following K n copy of the blank agreement used by Gray and Morris In their clever confidence game.
 *.... THE No..
 NATIONAL COMMERCIAL
 TRAVELLERS.
 TO Broadway,
 Original. New York. 19... We hereby subscribe ... dollars to. ward helping to defray the expenses incidental to circulating petition for interchangeable mileage in the South. western Passenger Association. In pay. ment for which accompanying cheek is drawn to the order of the National Commercial Travellers Association.
 Continuing, Mir. Head said: "J thought that they were crooks when first talked with them, and SO did my bookkccper who asked them for their credentials. They were such glib takers that they fooled both of us, but they only got $5 out of me. They stat cd that they were going to have the 'ashford- Burmister company and other firms here sign with them that after. noon, but do not know whether they succeeded in doing SO or not"
 lt appears that after leaving here these smooth individuals succeeded in getting small payments on their scheme from Babbitt Brothers of Flagstaff, the Arizona Lumber and Timber com. pany of Flagstaff, and other we'll known business men and firms of the northern part of the territory.
 Albuquerque, where they are now in jail seems to have been the most prolific field that these confidence men have struck in their travels. It Is re. F"'t'" 'T"m 'h're that uIWost hIl or the prominent business men of that .n. terprising city were buncoed out of more or less in small amounts before the attention of the city authorities called to the character of their opera. tions
 They would have succeeded in get. ting out of that city, in all probability, had they not allowed themselves to get unde the influence of liquor. While in a hilarious condition they had few drafts for small amounts cashed by we'll known business man, who finally grew suspicious of their conduct, and started an investigation which proved that they were frauds and the rankest