Show WORKING THE TAILOR original scheme of a philadelphia swindler to obtain a suit of clothes an ingenious swindle was recently worked successfully upon a chestnut street druggist and a chestnut street tailor says tho philadelphia inquirer the criminal was a young man of intelligent address choso whoso somewhat shabby clothes acro brushed clean and his boots polished entering the pharmacy he me proprietor that the tailor choso whoso name he gave was suffering with dyspepsia and had requested that some medicine bo sent to him tho druggist ordered a prescription and whilo it was being compounded entered into a chat with the stranger who paid for the bottle of medicine and before taking it away asked tho druggist to have another vial ready and said that the tailor would call for it in a day or two then the swindler went to the tailor and ordered a suit of clothes tho prise of which was fifty dollars iio wanted the garments made up in a hurry and they were ready for him two days afterward he put them on in the store and loft bis back number suit to bo sent to a fictitious address my friend ho said to tho tailor giving the name of the tins some money ot mine and if you will down there I 1 will pay tho bill the tailor and the artful dodger reached the pharmacy 1 I perceive that we are all acquainted the swindler said as they shook hands now he continued speaking to the druggist give mr what I 1 left hero for him and excuse me for a moment with that he slipped out of a side entrance and the druggist banded the tailor a vial wrapped in the customary white paper what do I 1 want with thise asked the sartorial artist that responded the master of the is what your friend said you were to get here jsoe at all the tailor ejaculated 1 I understood that you have the cash for the clothes that ho got from me they stared each other in the face for thirty seconds and made a simultaneous break for the door through which the mutual friend had disappeared but he was not in sight |