The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-07-31

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early in the afternoon seeking to cool
| off. He met Tom Malin, stranger
to him. (Tom is Confidence Man No.
! ~. The two compared their jobs and
bank accounts.
William, the fish, said he had
/ 81 400 in a savings account at the
First National bank. Tom, the angler,
said he had s1,7o0 in bank in Chi
cago. He said he had worked at Nash
at one time. BY and by Tom said that
he had to go; there was a place where
he was to buy some second hand fur
niture, he had the address of the
/ house but didn't know how to get
there. William offered to show Tom
! the way.
The two walked across the Main
street bridge and they met a man who
was Confidence Man No. 2, but William
the "fsh" didn. know it, The strang
er stopped Tom and William and ask
ed if they knew how lie could reach
DR.. j. P. Schmidt. William had new
err heard of DR.. Schmidt. Tom, Con
Man No. /, did know DR.. Schmidt and
| he was very willing to accommodate
the stranger. William Joined them
and the three got chummy.
Story Within the Story.
| Confidence Man No. told William
and Tom story. His story is a
whopper Just listen to this.
| Con Man No. had a father. Father
was a miser. Father-M iser died. They
cleaned up the house. Father-M iser's
servant found $4,000 in currency in
the mattress Of the bed. The servant
instead Of turning the money over to
| the sons (of whom Con Man No. 2 was
presumably one), took the money and
went west and bought q ranch. By
chance this servant, grown rich, met
the son of his former employer, the
miser; that is he met Con Man No.. q.
Servant up and died. But before he
died, just before, he confessed. He
left ranch and all, fortune, to Con
Man No. 2. So Con Man No. found
himself suddenly a man of wealth.
But Con Man No. 2, having vivid
memory of his miser father did not
want to become such a person. He
was anxious to distribute his money
amongst the poor of Yenosha and Chi
cago; but only amongst the deserving
and thrifty poor, those who had saved
up something.
Ranchman is Rich Guy.
! Now come back to William and Tom.
William you can imagine drinking up
this story with bullying eyes. The up
! shot was that William and the two
confidence men went to Chicago and
had hell-of-a-time. There was no
limit to the generosity Of Con Man
No. 2. He showed the two stiffs from
Kenosha the big burg of the city
which environs the stock yards. He
carried wad of money. 1t really was
only couple of bills wrapped around
deck of cards, but it looked like a
wad. The three went to hotel in
the neighborhood of Broadway and
Wilson avenues and spent the night.
| AS Monday morning dawned the
three were firm friends. Con Man No.
liked his two new acquaintance so
we'll that he decided that they were
| two of the deserving poor whom he
would first reward. His idea was to
| give each poor person an equivalent
of the sum he had saved. AS Tom,
| Con Man No. 1, said he had saved
! $1,700, he was to get $1,700 additional.
| A special favor was shown William,
however. He had saved S1,400. And
| the stranger would give him $1,000.
But the stranger announced laughing
| ly that he himself was "from Mis-
souri," and he had to be sure that
each of his new friends had that
amount.
William came to Kenosha to with
draw his savings from the bank. Tom
came with him.
Remembers Rcndout Robbery.
! 1t was while on the train that Will
liam came TO. He was not as simple
witted as taey thought him. As he
/ listened 70 the music OF the train run
ming over the ties, which might sound
to some like Grieg's ''In the hall Of
/ the Dovre trolls', he remembered the
Rondout train hold-up. He didn': know
why he remembered that: it just came
to him. Hold-ups. Robberies. Conf
dence men. His brain began to hum
with suspicion.
But he showed another streak of
sense; he did not confde his thoughts
to his companion. When they arrived
| in Kenosha he contrived to shake"
! MS du0CCiOudLS lEleHQ, 1Oul, LOT lew
minutes on the ruse that he wanted to
/ get to his room in the Garfield House
for his bank book. Over at the Gar
field House, William told the story.
McCluskey Aids the Scheme.
1t was quickly arranged that Will
liam should go down to the bank and
withdraw his money as if nothing had
happened. Meanwhile quick call was
sent to the police station; without
giving the details in the case, there
was no time, the person calling the
police asked that plain clothes man
! be sent to the First National bank and
approach the man at the window,
Sheshtak, who was withdrawing saw
ings account.
Detective Frank McCluskey was as
| signed. He saw Sheshtak counting his
roll of money and approached him.
Whats the trouble y asked the po-
lice detective.
watch me go out of here" whis-
pered Sheshtak, ''and grab the man
| you see me going down the street