Perth Amboy evening news., 1909-06-07
CARNIVAL WOMAN
IN JAIL ON CHARGE OF
SWINDL|NG FARMER
ClairvOyant. Got
$1,000 from
Van SCOy.
AN EASY MARK

While Nine Zola Fay was here
last week at the carnival she told
many persons fortunes but she
didn't seem to know what was COM
ing to her. On charge of having
swindled Chester Van Scoy, a farmer
of 1detown, Pa, out of $1,000 at
Wilkes-Barre on April 21 last, she
was arrested by Detectives Huff and
Long Saturday afternoon and is now
In the county Jail at New Brunswick,
awaiting requistion
Chief Burke received letter from
'Wilkes-Barre, Saturday morning, en-
closing a picture of the fortune tell
er and a warrant for her arrest The
letter told how she had duped the
farmer and stated that she was ran
ming a "mitbooth7 with Col Francis
Ferari's Carnival Company The
Wilkes-Barre authorities asked that
she be arrested if here and held for
requisition and that, IL the carnival
had left town, to forward the war
rant to the chief of police of their
next stopping place.
Denied Photograph.
Detectives Huff and Long went to
the carnival grounds and finding
the woman, showed her the warrant
and the photograph. She said that
the photograph was not of herself,
but when told that 1t had been en-
larged from group, she gave start
of recognition. She was questioned
closely in regard to the swindle, but
all she would say was, 1T is all
foreign to me" She was taken to
she police station and locked up, as
there seemed to be no question
about her being the right party.
She was arraigned before Recor-
der Pickersgill yesterday morning
At the request of Chief Burke the
recorder committed her She was
told that she would have to go to
New Brunswick to await the arrival
of officers from Wilkes-Barre. She
objected to this and wanted to re-
main in this city. The fortune teller,
after her arrest, retained Joseph g..
/. Stricken as counsel. The latter told
the recorder that 1t was legal for
him to fix ball, although Chief Burke
had doubts in regard to the matter
On Mr.. Stricker's authority the re-
corder fixed bail at $4,000, but as
no bondsman appeared City Marshal
Walters. accompanied part of the
way by Detective Huff, took her to
the county jail later.
offered Officer $500.
A number of the carnival people,
cheering, boarded the trolley car
containing the fortune teller and
wished her all kinds of good luck be-
fore bidding her goodbye The city
marshal said this morning that on
the way to New Brunswick the Vom-
an asked him If $500 would tempt
him to let her go free. Mr.. Walters,
however, considers that the woman
was only Joking and did not mean 1t
as a bribe He told her that ten
times the amount would not tempt
him.
Chief Burke, as soon as Nine. Fay
was in custody, notified the Wilkes
Barre authorities and received a tel
egram In reply this morning from
Chief of Police ]. Grant Long, ask
identify her would be sent immedi-
ately. Governor Fort has made 1t a
rule not to sign requisition papers
until prisoners are identified.
Farmer an Easy Mark.
The complaint against the clair
voyant was made on April 80 by De-
tectiye j. w. Jones, of Wilkes-Barre,
on a warrant issued by Mayor Louis
Kniffen of that place. According
to the statement received by Chief
urke from the Wilkes-Barre au-
I. 0rities, Chester Van Scoy was
lured there on April 21 last by a
letter which Nine. Fay had written
him a few days before. The farmer
drove in from Idetown, which is near
WiIkes-Barre, and called on the
woman to have his fortune told He
paid her 81 and she began reading
Suddenly she said she saw some
money coming to hin" and that she
knew how he could get it. Van
Scoy's interest was aroused and
when she told him to get 81 eco and
bring 1t to her in an envelope, he
complied without delay. She was to
turn it into many times that amount
and when the farmer returned with
the money she placed in the envelope
= what she termed Mystic" powder
aHra sealed it up. She switched en-
yelopes and gave Van Scoy the pac-
ket which he thought was the one
( he had brought. He was then told
to go home and return to her in
three days with it, The farmer re-
turned on the third day and. not
finding the fortune teller, became
Suspicious and tore open the enve-
lope Instead of finding money in
side he discovered slip of paper on.
which was written Beware, this
game was played pretty slick" The
farmer informed the authorities,
who Immediately took steps to lo-
cate the woman.
1t is said that many farmers in
Pennsylvania have been victimized
in a similar way and that the state
provides heavy penalty for such
offenses.
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