Show Two Wouldbe Swindlers Swindled Special to THE HERALD Examiner Dispatch NEW YORK Feb 5Three passengers got off the Pennsylvania Railroad ferry boat at Jersey City on her 4 oclock trip yesterday Two of them evidently were countrymen They were tall and broad shouldered Both wore a beard and one of them carried a satchel The third was a short man neatly dressed He walked between the other two In the ferry house the man with a satchel stepped into a side room The little man stopped and talked with his companion They stood there a minute and then there came a shout from the side room where tho man with the satchel had gone Swindled by cracky he yelled The little man made a dive at the satchel twentyfive feet away and the man to whom he had been talking whipped out a revolver s and fired at him The little evoiver ran witnin ten leet or him ana deliberately pointed the revolver at hs head and pulled the trigger The weapon missed fire Then the little man jumped up and slipped in the crowd The away man who had gone into the side room with the satchel came out with two disarranged square bundles in his hands They have done us John he said Put up your gun Policeman Richard Reed and Detective Dalton heard he shot and ran into the depot and arrested the man with the revolver We was swindled by posh said the prisoner and I shot to kill He was taken to police headquarters and the man with the bundles followed They both went before the chief of police My name is John E Holcomb and Im the postmaster of Maloa Jackson county Kentucky said the man with the revolver This man here pointing to his companion is brother Low and we have been swindled my You see it was this way he continued My broiler and I got a letter from a fel low named Wilson who said he had a stock of good money to sell at a discount for cash He guaranteed It would go down our way and we opened up a correspondence with him by telegraph Finally we decided to come on and get a sample of his goods The fellow met us at the depot and took us to New York some where to a room Ob they had stack of good money there There must have been a million dollars of it When we got through looking at it they pulled out a box full of gold 820s They were good I know cause I held them Well I talked it over with Lew and we bought 750 worth We got 10000 in bills We wasnt going to let them get the best of us so we told them wer did not know the way to the ferry and wanted one of them to go with us I gave the little fellow about five dollars for showing us the way My brother stepped off to a room to look at the goods I wish you had killed him said the chief and then the two brothers looked gratified That look vanished when the chief added a We would have hangedjyou then and the country would have been rid of two swindlers The chief examined the bundles that the post masters brother had brought with him There was a SI bill in each bundle on top and the rest of the package was made up of closely packed sawdust The brothers watched the ex amination with great fallen looks The shooter was locked up for discharging fire |