The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-03
WHO IS NEXT CROOK ID DUPE ATLANTA? It Seems That ''Mr. HOyt"
 Lost His Nerve ATLANTA IS WAITING
Carmichael Made Biggest Hit-Young Holland Millionaire and Kingdom Gould Are Not So Well
 Thought Of

Atlanta. April 2.-(Speciall l-Carmichael has come and gone; likewise Hoyt Then there was Garrett VanDorme and King don Gould" who preceded them. These are of recent days.
 Now the question is who will be the next gentle and polished crook, grairer or whatnot to come along with suavity that will immediately open Atlanta hearts and pocketbooks
 For there is one coming before long that can be counted upon. But just what shape or form his graft will take is the question that will not, perhaps be an- swered until he has come and conquered and gone.
 Not that Carmichael he of the dress suit case filled with sreenbacks, got Into anybody here; he was never charged with that. He simply came along with lot of money which nobody knew anything about, spent it lavishly paid all his bills and then ran away with manicure girl Since then somebody has suspected him of being an abscondng navy paymaster, but no one has found him or proven any thing on him.
 Edward Travis Hoyt must have lost his nerve. If he had held out F hours longer he could easily have cleaned up in Atlanta to the extent of 5000 or 5000.
 A number of prominent Atantans took him for what he claimed to be-assistant to President Charles Fl. Markham of the Georgia Central railroad.
 Why, I would easily have let him have 5000 advance on the $50oo of drafts he deposited with us,' said a well-known Atlanta banker, Eff he had asked it. His introductions to me were such, although l did not investigate, that I considered him all right. Fortunately for us, how ever, he did not attempt to draw any money
 The drafts, of course were no good.
 Hoypt got into one jeweler here for gold watch and fob, but outside of that it cannot be learned that he got away virn anything of any consequence, The indications are that he got into the news papers before.he counted on it and jumped the game before things began to get hot for him.
 No word has been heard of him since his sudden departure Thursday last, when word came to the newspapers of his pres- once, and when he was still accepted as the genuine article.
 It was less than two months ago that Garrett VanDorme, as he called himself, came through Atlanta and cleaned up little bit with the story that he was the son of a millionaire manufacturer of Hol- land, whose pocket had been picked or all the money he had, $S75, on a passenger train near Savannah, and he was, there fore without funds
 He was taken care of here, collection was taken up for him and a railroad ticket given him to help him on his jour ney back to his Amsterdam home.
 Pretty soon comes the story from New York of the arrest of notorious Bowery character named Davis with good wad Of money his person, and Davis ad- mits that he is or was, while travelling the south, Garrett NanDorme. Accord ing to his story he cleaned up pretty well in Atlanta and other southern cities on the strength of this story, and went back to the Bowery well fixed
 Kingdom Gould is the subject of considerably older story, though one on the same order. He came here, stopped at the Piedmont, went out to balls and parties and clubs with number of Att lanta swells. borrowed money from them on one plea or another, and finally slipped out of the hotel and got away right un- der the noses of two detectives who had been set to watch him after suspicion had been aroused.
 There will be others without doubt, and whether not they clean up will de- pend on the sort of a game they put up and the amount of nerve they have to carry it through.