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Show Adventurers. -1 The story of Eugene Banner which i freely circulated in the city yes-J terday rtveala a condition of things i that will bear a little reflection. It baa been suspected and hinted that ' the man ws a rogue and hypocrite. Hia transactions in the eaat and west ', have bftm chronicled by the press, j Thoee who knew him best have been posted as to his exploits, adventures 'and escapades in other p-irta of the t countiy. Yet, with all, be has ! "wormed" himself into the confi-i dance of Bhrewd business men, induced in-duced them to tru3t him, succeeded , in swindling them and got oft with his booty. It is an astonishing fact that adventurers of this stripe have ' found Utah an easy field to operate in, and how people have been gulled by them is BOmewhat marvellouB, with so many lessons and precedents to fall back upon. He came here an utter stranger, and was obicure until items concerniug some of his traus actions elsewhere were printed and copied into the dailies here. He was a "smooth Ephraim" and talked himself into the good graces of respectable re-spectable peoplo, and continued to soft softpj be good and play his hypocritical hypo-critical game finely. His last exploit waa to "get away" with thirteen or fourteen hundred dollars from a prominent citizen of this place and eacape to the east with it. There ia a moral attached to this affair, which will readily be seen. Old and tried members of this community might have endeavored to obtain loans under similar circumstances to those which this Bharper employed, and they would have been denied. A comparative stranger sometimes fares better than a good, honeBt neighbor. And again, what lessons have been tausht mothers and fathers in this community by this class of unprincipled villains. Like Bonner, many have come here, with bland faces, winning ways and oiled tongues. made themsolvea familiar and intimate inti-mate with families of respectability, woo the hearts of confiding girls, completed their adventures by seduction seduc-tion and flight! And these warnings are unheeded. Duplicity, double-dealing double-dealing and deceit are practiced upon the unsuspecting, and it has seemed useless to counsel against them. Those who have been bitten once are seldom taken in a Becond time in like manner. It ia to those who are liable to bo duped by hypocritical, villainous adventurers that these remarks are directed. |