Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-02-27
EASY MONEY FOR
 A CON MAN Victim Had $2,5OO Check on Bank To Show For
 His Losses.
HE GAVE ALL HE HAD
R. l.. Wilson, of Ward, Ark, Did Not Have Enough Money Left
 to Buy Sandwich.

Little Rock, Ark, Feb. 26.-R. L. Wilson, a citizen of Ward, Ark l, bought $750 worth of experience from confidence man at Birmingham, Ala, yesterday. He may not have gotten the worth of his money, but that is what the experience cost him.
 Mir. Wilson has the patent right for a washing powder that he says makes the other washing prepara- tions look like charcoal. He had gone to Birmingham with the purpose of arranging to have it manufactur- ed in large quantities, and carried with him all the money he had in the world, $750. He is farmer living near Ward, and this represented to him the savings of years.
 Arrived at Birmingham he regis tered at the Southwestern Hotel, and soon made tho acquaintance of one w. l.. Williams, whom MT. Wilson says was most affable young man.
 
 Williams became very much interest ed in the washing powder and want ed to buy the right to make and sell it in the whole state of Georgia, Will son needed more money and the ex- tensive manufacture of it, and of course he would sell Mir. Williams the right to the state of Georgia. Would he not still E have forty-five states in which to operate, and ad- ditional capital for working it up?
 Money in First National Bank.
 A bargain was quickly made for $1,750, but MT. Williams did not have the amount with him. } He had near ly twice that in the "First National Bank" at Little Rock. Besides, he needed some money to take with him to Georgia for the purpose of adver- Using and introducing the washing powder. He proposed to give MT. Wilson a check for $2,500 on his bank account, and MT. Wilson very readily agreed to give him the diff ference between the amount of the check and the purchase price of the state right in green back.
 But after doing so he had no mon- ey to buy a railroad ticket to Little Rock and Mr. Williams was very obliging; he did just what any other generous gentleman would do: \ he paid MT. Wilson's railroad transpor- tation.
 He not only did that, but he gave MT. Wilson letter of introduction to R. L. Williams, who, he said, was his father, and was the proprietorof the Rock Island hotel here. The letter of introduction read:
 ''R. l.. Williams, proprietor Rock Island Hotel, Little Rock.
 Dear Pappa: This will introduce to you Mir. Wilson. Identify him at the bank for this check. Will be home next week. Walter.'
 round NO k. l.. williams.
 Arriving in Little Rock last night MT. Wilson found that no man by the name had ever been proprietor of the Rock Island Hotel, and still he thought some mistake had been made and that he would find the money in the bank as the young man had told him he would. This morn ing he was told at the police head quarters there was no such bank as the First National Bank in Little Rock. that institution hayeing been defunct for the last IS years.
 MT. Wilson had never met the man before but he was so clever and so obliging. and withal, so impressed with the merits of the washing con- pound, that he never once stopped to question his honesty of his cincer- ity. He didn't have a blank check on