Show LADS CONFIDENCE GAME How He Works on the Sympathies of the Generous Ive lost my quarter sobbed a little lit-tle bit of a boy 1 at the Clift house corner cor-ner last night about 10 oclock Two nickels were immediately forthcoming from sympathetic spirits in the crowd Where do you live sonny asked a passerby At Ninth East and Seventh South streets V V Whats your name V Johnson was the reply Well come Ill put you on the car and send you home said the party Interested In-terested No I want my lost quarter and the boy hugged tho window of the drugstore drug-store to prevent his being led over to State street V A young man leaning against a pole near by laughed and said That kid has been wOrking that graft right along night after night He was over on State street last night working the samo game In a moment a kindlyhearted lady came along and attracted by the childs whimperings gave him a quarter quar-ter and rebuked the crowd for having so little heart Officer Pack came up Just then too late to warn the lady but he walked the kid over to State street to take a car While the officers attention at-tention was called in another direction the boy was over at the Knutsford panhandling the guests sitting outside out-side for a quarter to replace the one he had lost If the police catch the youthful grafter out tonight he will be locked up until morning Sergt Janncy says that the boy Is on oldtimer In the confidence business and has also been wont to collect old papers and stand sobbing on the streets saying he could not sell his papers In that way he haa imposed on the sympathies of people until they bought his worthless stock and yet he Is hardly 7 years old |