Arizona republican., 1910-01-01
THE FILM PLANNERS
 GET WIRES CROSSED
BOTH CLAIM TO BE SAMUEL C.
 ,k EMERY.
Another Victim of Their Short Change
 Work Appears.

Another victim of the film fam
 mers. "Bill' and Jack" the short
 short change artists. who ravaged the southern part of the city on Wednes- day. is Walter Hinson. who conducts barbecued meat establishment at the corner of Jefferson and First avenue. He swore out complaint against them in Justice Johnstone's court
 The process by which Mir Hinson
 was separated from his money has all
 ready been described in other cases
 One of them bought small quantity
 of meat for which he offered a $fO
 bill in payment. Mir. Hinson put it
 into the drawer and began to. make change by laying s bill on the coun-
 ter. While he was fishing about for
 the silver. his customer remarked. as
 one who has had an afterthought. that
 he had the change. He threw it on the counter. picked up the g bill Mir Hin
 son had laid down and asked for the return of his $10. The trick is very
 simple one: it consists in merely elim-
 mating from the consideration of the victim all sums except the original one and the price of the purchased article:
 he is made to forget that he began making change Thus for the moment the s5 bill was entirely out of lhe mind of Mir Hinson.
 Bill and Jack were removed from the city to the county jail. Sheriff Hayden started an inquiry after their real names. He learned that one of them had cards and papers bearing the name. Samuel c. Emery" He went to the cell of this individual and asked. What does the C. stand for in your narne?" The prisoner reluctantly admitted that it stood for Charles: his full name he said was Samuel Charles Emery"
 With this matter settled the sheriff went to the cell of the other man and asked him what his name was. sam uel c. Emery" was the astonishing reply The sheriff concealed his sur prise and asked What does the 'C' stand for?"
 Now. why do you want to know" asked the prisoner suspiciously
 70. just wanted to satisfy my cu- riosity." said the sheriff
 If that's arl." said the prisoner. q don't mind telling you. The C. in my name stands for Smith, do you see? C-m-i-t-h. Smith
 But your partner told me his name was Samuel C. Emery" said the sher- if
 He was right" said the prisoner. you see I had some of his cards in my pocket when I was arrested and was afraid that you would be kind of suspicious of my honesty and in- tegrity if I gave you my right name; there would be a discrepancy. now wouldn't there have been? But I thought my partner would have sense enough to take some other name and l not get things all balled up this way
 After while the woman who has been l stopping with these men came to the | jail to see them. The sheriff asked ], her what the "C" stood for and she | said it was the initial of Clifton She further identified the first one who had claimed the name as the real Samuel c. Emery, all other claimants i being counterfeit. She said she was Mrs Emery and she couldn't under stand what all this was about.
 Earlier in the day before the re- | moval of the prisoners to the county | jail. the woman called on, Marshall | Moore and said she wanted to see her husband. After brief talk with him she told the marshal that she was in | need and she would like to get the s10 which had been found on him when l he was arrested. The man was will l ing for her to have it. She said she | was in need: had neither food nor money The marshal decided that he 1 would give her s10 but not the ten that | was taken from the man since that 1; bill may be of special value as an | exhibit The woman evidently thought l of that. too. for she seemed disap- pointed at her failure to secure that | particular bill