| Show Ocar Wilde New York2SCaptain Williams has verified the story of Oscar Wilde being taken in by bunko steerers The Captain says two weeks ago Oscar while walking up Broadway uear Union Square was accosted by a hatchet faced young man who introduced himself as a son of Drexel the banker Wilde was delighted and the two went into a restaurant Mr Drexel ate as though hungry Wilde remembered remem-bered this and not with an aesthetic smile when later in the day on being einformed by aptain Williams that Mr Drexel was Hungry Joe a noted bunko steerer Then followed the old winning lottery ticket scheme First it was 60 then S100 until he becoming excited over the game played till he lost 1060 He signed a check on the Madison Square Bank for the amount rushed into the street jumped into a cab drover drove-r to the bank and stopped payment of the check I |
