The daily sentinel., 1907-07-15
VISITOR Is FLEECED
BY AN OLD GAME
While Waiting in the Union Depot a
Man is Worked by Two Very
Smooth Individuals.

] q By game that is almost as q
j O old as the country itself a yisi- q
J q tor to the city whose name is q
i q withheld, was worked very O
! q prettily at the union depot at q
i a this place on Saturday after q
i a noon at a late hour. 1t seems q
j q that no confidence game gets q
! q too old to find victim almost q
u q every time it is worked. q
i No. 3, Rio Grande passenger from
i the east, was several hours late on
] Saturday afternoon. A gentleman
l from one of the eastern states who
sition with the government forces at
Y the Gunnison tunnel, was sitting in
| the main waiting room of the station
waiting for the delayed train. He de-
sired to go to Salt Lake City. He had
| been in the city for two days and was
enjoying a vacation from his work
He was nicely dressed and withal a
very good looking individual. Pres
emily an elegantly dressed stranger
who had been walking about the
waiting room for some time wander
ed up to where the man from Mont
rose was sitting and taking a seat by
him opened up an informal and pleas
ant conversation on the general
themes usually discussed when peo-
pie are waiting for trains. The ele-
gantly dressed man asked the Mont
rose man where he was going. 'To
Salt Lake for a few days" the latter
responded. why, l am headed for
there too" exclaiedm the foxy stran-
ger. He then informed the other
ma nthat he was the representative
of a big commercial firm, had been in
Grand Junction frequently and in
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conversed smoothly and easily about
Grand Junction and Salt Lake. nam
ing many points of interest in the
Mormon city, and thereby made him
self very agreeable indeed. He Of
fered to show the man from Montrose
around a little in Salt Lake as he
would be at leisure for a day or two
after arriving there.
By his courteous, genial manners,
good appearance and kindly offers the
elegantly dressed fellow easily found
his way into the confidence of the
young man from Montrose.
Shortly afterward the delayed train
arrived and the two men entered a
car and sat down. A third man en-
tered the car just then, walked upI
to the fashionable stranger and eX-
tended to him a bill, stating at the
same time that the payment of the
bill would be a great accommodation
to him as a business man, sorry to
trouble the elegant stranger at this
time. etc, etc. ''Why that's all right
old man." said the elegant individ-
ual," but l don't see how l am going
to help you. If you had come a lit
tie earlier it would have been easy
but my check book and practically all
of my ready money is in one of my
fftt lrc q nil in ha
baggage car and consequently II
cant get the money out" Turning
to the man from Montrose the hand
some stranger asked. Maybe you
could give me a loan till we reach
Salt Lake then / will hand it back to
you" Completely taken. in by his
new found friend and believing him
all right the young man said, Sure
l viii, how much you need?" Oh
$4,000 viii do replied the stranger
The young man handed over two ten
seats till | get a receipt from this
man and I'll come back"
Well, naturally the young man
waited and waited in vain for his fine
friends return. Presently he got un
easy and it finally dawned on him
that he had been duped. He left
the train and let it go without him,
came up town and filed a complaint
with the officers but all efforts to find
the smooth and elegant fleecer and
his confederate, the man with the
bill, failed The Montrose man went
on to Salt Lake yesterday, poorer
but wiser by going up against this
long used game.
The Sentinel believes that the two
swindlers were Col. w. ]. Evils" and
Mr.. w. A. Hilton" who after pos
ing as rich men from the east, dress
ing in the latest style, and after
winning about 5000 from guests at
poker tables. at the Hotel Colorado
at Glenwood. were pounced on by the
hotels detective, branded as swind-
lers, forced to pay back all their
winnings" and made to leave Glen
wood. That was Friday night. They
came west and probably stopped over
here Saturday to work few of the
gullible.